ASRock ALiveNF5-eSATA2 R3.0 Quick Installation Guide - Page 29
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices without NCQ and Hot Plug
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install Windows?" page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive, and click the "Load Driver" button on the left on the bottom to load the NVIDIA® AHCI drivers. NVIDIA® AHCI drivers are in the following path in our Support CD: .. \ I386 \ Vista32_AHCI (For Windows® VistaTM OS) .. \ AMD64 \ Vista64_AHCI (For Windows® VistaTM 64-bit OS) After that, please insert Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit optical disk into the optical drive again to continue the installation. Using SATA / SATAII HDDs and eSATAII devices without NCQ and Hot Plug functions STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [non-RAID]. STEP 2: Install Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system. 2.14 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000, Windows® XP, Windows® XP 64-bit, Windows® VistaTM or Windows® VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below procedures according to the OS you install. Before installing Windows® 2000 to your system, your Windows® 2000 optical disk is supposed to include SP4. If there is no SP4 included in your disk, please visit the below website for proper procedures of making a SP4 disk: http://www.microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/spdeploy. htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay English 2.14.1 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000 / Windows® XP / Windows® XP 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps. STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. Please make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette by following section 2.13.1 step 2 on page 27. If you want to enable Hot Plug function on eSATAII ports but you install OS on IDE HDD, please skip step 2. 29 ASRock ALiveNF5-eSATA2+ Motherboard