Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 Manual
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SATA Hard Drive(s) (Controller SiS 964 2 (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer 2 (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup 3 (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS 5 (4) Making a SATA controller driver disk 10 (5) Installing SATA controller driver - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 2
, you may prepare only one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 3
: General Help F7: Optimized Defaults The BIOS Setup menus described in this section may not show the exact settings for your motherboard. The actual BIOS Setup menu options you will see shall depend on the motherboard you have and the BIOS version. - 3 - SATA Hard Drive Configurations (SiS 964) - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 4
2: Later, select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu. In the Hard Disk Åé Boot Priority submenu, select the model of the desired SATA hard drive onto which you intent to install ¤¤ Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (Figure 2). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2004 Award - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 5
" (Figure 4). Hit CTRL+S to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. If you cannot enter the RAID BIOS correctly, assure that your SATA drives are properly installed. Figure 4 Step 2 Press CTRL+S. The SiS RAID BIOS Setting Utility - Disk Status window appears (refer to Figure 5). To create RAID, press - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 6
, use number keys 1~3 to select a RAID mode: (1)JBOD, (2)RAID 0, or (3)RAID 1 and then press ENTER (Figure 7). The following is an example of RAID 0 creation. Figure 7 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (SiS 964) - 6 - - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 7
whether you want the RAID array to be created automatically or manually (Figure 8). Press 1 to select Auto Create or 2 to select Manual Create. (We recommend selecting Auto Create to most users.) only. Then press ENTER (Figure 9). Figure 9 - 7 - SATA Hard Drive Configurations (SiS 964) - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 8
exit the current menu, press Q. When the "Do You Want to Save changes?" message appears (Figure 11), press Y and then ENTER to confirm. Figure 11 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (SiS 964) - 8 - - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 9
you want to delete a RAID array, simply press D while you are in the window below (Figure 12). Next, use the ARROW keys to select the RAID array you selections. Figure 12 Now, you can proceed to the installation of the SATA driver and operating system. - 9 - SATA Hard Drive Configurations (SiS 964) - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 10
controller during OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive ¤¤ may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. ¤å First of all, you need to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk. The instructions below explain how to copy the - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 11
Figure 15 below will appear. Figure 15 Step 5: Insert an empty floppy disk and press D to select D) SiS 964 SATA. Then it will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. Step 6: Press 0 to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure 16). You have - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 12
OS installation Åé Now that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard drive with the SATA driver. The following is an example of ¤¤ Windows XP installation. ¤å Step 1: Restart your system to boot from - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 13
19 below will appear. If you want to install Windows XP, use the ARROW keys to select WinXP SiS Raid/IDE Controller and press ENTER. (Select Win2000 SiS Raid/IDE Controller if you want to install Windows 2000.) Then it will begin to load the SATA driver from the floppy disk. Figure 19 If a message - Gigabyte GA-8S661FXM-775 | Manual - Page 14
with the Windows Åé 2000/XP installation. ¤¤ ¤å Figure 21 (Note: Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will have to be installed under Windows once for that hard drive. After that, the driver will not have to be installed.) SATA Hard Drive Configurations (SiS
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Table of Contents
Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)
(Controller
SiS 964)
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2
(1)
Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your computer
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2
(2)
Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup
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3
(3)
Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS
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5
(4)
Making a SATA controller driver disk
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10
(5)
Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation
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12