Gigabyte GA-MA770-UD3 Manual

... 4-4 Easy Energy Saver 71 Chapter 5 Appendix ...73 5-1 Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s 73 5-1-1 Configuring the Onboard SATA Controller 73 5-1-2 Making a SATA RAID/AHCI Driver Diskette for W indows XP 79 5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System 80 5-2 Configuring AudioInput and Output 85 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio 85 5-2-2 Installing the S/PDIF In Cable...

... connector supporting ATA-133/100/66/33 and up to 2 IDE devices - 6 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors supporting up to 6 SA TA 3Gb/s devices - Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10 iTE IT8720 chip: - 1 x floppy disk drive connector supporting up to 1 floppy disk drive T.I. TSB43AB23 chip Up to 3 IEEE 1394a ports (2 on the back...

... TXP TXN GND RXN RXP GND SATAII5 7 1 1 7 SATAII4 Please connect the L-shaped end of the SATA 3Gb/s cable to your SATA hard drive. • A RAID 0 or RAID 1 configuration requires at least two hard drives. If more than two hard drives are to be used, the total number of hard drives must be... an even number. • A RAID 10 configuration requires at least four hard drives and the total number of hard drives must be an even number. 10) PWR_LED (System Power LED...

... IDE mode. (Default) Enable Native IDE mode if you wish to install operating systems that support Native mode, e.g. Windows XP. RAID Enables RAID for the SATA controller. AHCI Configures the SATA controller to AHCI mode. Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that...Mode (SATAII4/5 connectors) This option is configurable only when OnChip SATA Type is set to RAID or AHCI. Configures the operating mode of the integrated SATAII4/SATAII5 connectors. IDE Disables RAID for the SATA controller and configures the SATA controller to As SATA Type PATA mode. (...

.... For example, a backup file created with Xpress Recovery cannot be restored using Xpress Recovery2. • USB hard drives are not supported. • Hard drives in RAID/AHCI mode are not supported. "*" Xpress Recovery2 checks the first physical hard drive in the following sequence: The first PATA IDE connector, the second P ATA...

... pressing the key during the POST or pressing the key in BIOS Setup. However, if the BIOS update file is saved to a hard drive in RAID/AHCI mode or a hard drive attached to an independent IDE/SA TA controller, use the key during the POST to access Q-Flash. Award Modular BIOS...

... supports USB flash drive or hard drives using F AT32/16/12 file system. • If the BIOS update file is saved to a hard drive in RAID/AHCI mode or a hard drive attached to an independent IDE/SATA controller, use the key during the POST to access Q-Flash. 2. Select Floppy A and press...

...hard drive(s) in your computer . B. Configure SATA controller mode in BIOS Setup. C . Configure a RAID array in RAID BIOS. (Note 1) D. Make a floppy disk containing the SA TA RAID/AHCI driver. (Note 2) E. Install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and operating system. (Note 2) Before you begin Please prepare: • At least two...to ensure optimal performance, it is recommended that you use two hard drives with identical model and capacity). If you do not want to create RAID, you may prepare only one hard drive. • An empty formatted floppy disk. • Windows Vista/XP setup disk. • ...

...-Test). Ensure OnChip SATA Controller is enabled under Integrated Peripherals. To create RAID, set OnChip SATA Type to RAID. Then enable the SATA channels with hard disks that you want to use for RAID (for example, OnChip SATA Port4/5 Type controls the SATAII4/5 connector)(Figure ...USB storage detect Onboard Serial Port 1 Onboard Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode x ECP Mode Use DMA [Enabled] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Press Enter] [Enabled] [RAID] [As SATA Type] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [Disabled] [Enabled] [3F8/IRQ4] [378/IRQ7] [SPP] 3 Item Help Menu Level Move...

... system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press to enter FastBuild (tm) Utility" (Figure 2). Hit the + key to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. RAID BIOS Version 3.2.1540.23 (c) 2007 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All rights reserved. No Array is defined.. Press to enter FastBuild (tm) Utility... ...Figure 2 Step 2: Main Menu This is the first option screen when you enter the BIOS RAID Setup utility. (Figure 3). To view the disk drives assigned to arrays, press to enter the View Drive Assignments window. To create an array , ...

... from the Main Menu allows users to begin the process of manually defining the drive elements and RAID levels for one or multiple disk arrays attached to the AMD SB700 controller. FastBuild (tm) Utility... (c) 2007 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [ Define LD Menu ] LD No RAID Mode Total Drv Capacity (MB) LD 1 ---- LD 2 ---- LD 3 ---- LD 4 ---- LD 5 ---- LD 6 ---- LD 7 ---- LD 8 ---- LD 9 ---- LD 10 ---- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- ----- ---- -----...

... will appear. Press Ctrl-Y to Modify Array Capacity or press any other key to use maximum capacity... Figure 7 7. Press + to set the capacity of the RAID array or press other keys to set the array to its maximum capacity. 8. After the creation is complete, the screen will return to Define LD... Menu where you will see the newly-created array. 9. Press to return to Main Menu and press again if you want to exit the RAID BIOS utility. View Drive Assignments The View Drive Assignments option in the Main Menu displays whether drives attached to the ATI SB700 controller are assigned...

... LD Menu. Press to return to Main Menu. FastBuild (tm) Utility (c) 2007 Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. LD No [ View LD Definition Menu ] RAID Mode Total Drv Capacity (MB) Status LD 1 RAID 0 2 158000 Functional Stripe Block: 64KB Cache Mode: WriteThru [ Drives Assignments ] Channel:ID Drive Model 1:Mas WDC WD800JD-22LSA0 2:Mas WDC WD800JD...

... for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. For installing W indows Vista, you may directly load the SA TA RAID driver from the motherboard driver disk during the OS installation process. For more details, refer to the next section, "5-1-3." See the instructions below about... controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu. For example, from the menu in Figure 2, to install Windows XP to your RAID/AHCI hard drives, select (5) SB700/750 SATA for the AMD SB700 SATA controller. Your system will then automatically zip and transfer this driver file...

5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System You are ready to install W indows Vista/XP onto your ...setup disk and press as soon as you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" (Figure 1). After pressing , there will be a few moments of some files being loaded before you see the next... Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver. Figure 1 Step 2: When a screen similar to that below appears, insert the floppy disk containing the SA TA RAID/AHCI driver and press (Figure 2). Windows Setup Setup could not determine...

... 3 If a message appears saying one or some file(s) cannot be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct SA TA RAID/AHCI driver again from the motherboard driver disk. When the screen as shown below appears, press to continue the driver installation from the floppy ... driver installation will be finished in about one minute. Windows Setup Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s): ATI AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which...

Step 4: After the SATA RAID/AHCI driver installation is completed, you can proceed with the W indows XP installation. WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to Setup. This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to run on your computer. To set up Windows XP now, press ENTER. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 5 GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 82 -

....) Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When a screen similar to that below appears (RAID hard drive will not be detected at this stage), select Load Driver. (Figure 6). Figure 6 Step 2: Specify the location where the driver is saved (Figure 7). For...

Step 3: When a screen as shown in Figure 8 appears, select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller and press Next. Figure 8 Step 4: After the driver is loaded, the RAID drive will appear. Select the RAID drive and then press Next to continue the OS installation (Figure 9). Figure 9 The install menus described in this chapter are for reference only and may differ by driver version. GA-MA770-UD3/US3 Motherboard - 84 -