ASRock P43Twins1600 Quick Installation Guide - Page 28

2 . 9 Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATAII (SATAII) Hard Disks Installation This motherboard adopts Intel® ICH10 south bridge chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATAII (SATAII) hard disks. You may install SATA / SATAII hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA / SATAII hard disks. STEP 1: Install the SATA / SATAII hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis. STEP 2: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA / SATAII hard disk. STEP 3: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard's SATAII connector. STEP 4: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the SATA / SATAII hard disk. It is not recommended to switch the "Configure SATAII as" setting after OS installation. 2.10 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical drive first. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly. 2.11 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit Without RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below procedures according to the OS you install. Since Windows® 2000 AHCI driver is not provided by the chipset vendor, AHCI function is not supported under Windows® 2000. 2.11.1 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps. 28 ASRock Motherboard English