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Drivers Installation, Install All, Install Single, Method B, Menu.exe, BootDrv

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Method B: Steps: 1. Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. 2. From your optical drive folder, double click the Menu.exe file in the BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt window will open. 3. Insert the blank formatted disk (if you're using a USB floppy disk drive, make sure it is designated as drive A). Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press . For example, for the AMD A78, select 6) hseries AHCI/RAID for XP. Your system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when finished. Refer to the following for installing the driver during the Windows setup process. Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP 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." A screen will then appear asking you to specify an additional SCSI adapter. Press . Step 2: Insert the floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and press . Select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform and press . Step 3: On the next screen, press to continue the driver installation. After the driver installation, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation. 3-2 Drivers Installation •• Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use Windows 8 as the example operating system.) •• After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your optical drive. Click on the message "Tap to choose what happens with this disc" on the top-right corner of the screen and select "Run Run.exe." (Or go to My Computer, double-click the optical drive and execute the Run.exe program.) After inserting the driver disk, "Xpress Install" will automatically scan your system and then list all the drivers that are recommended to install. You can click the Install All button and "Xpress Install" will install all the recommended drivers. Or click Install Single Items to manually select the drivers you wish to install. - 32 -

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Before installing the drivers, first install the operating system. (The following instructions use
Windows 8 as the example operating system.)
•
After installing the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your optical drive. Click
on the message "Tap to choose what happens with this disc" on the top-right corner of the screen
and select "Run
Run
.exe." (Or go to My Computer, double-click the optical drive and execute the
Run.exe program.)
After inserting the driver disk, "Xpress Install" will automatically scan your system and then list all the drivers that
are recommended to install. You can click the
Install All
button and "Xpress Install" will install all the recommended
drivers. Or click
Install Single
Items to manually select the drivers you wish to install.
3-2
Drivers Installation
Method B:
Steps:
1.
Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk.
2.
From your optical drive folder, double click the
Menu.exe
file in the
BootDrv
folder. A Command Prompt
window will open.
3.
Insert the blank formatted disk (if you're using a USB floppy disk drive, make sure it is designated as drive
A). Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press <Enter>. For
example, for the AMD A78, select
6) hseries AHCI/RAID for XP
.
Your system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when finished.
Refer to the following for installing the driver during the Windows setup process.
Step 1:
Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press <F6> as soon as you see the message
"Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver." A screen will then appear asking you to specify
an additional SCSI adapter. Press <S>.
Step 2:
Insert the floppy disk containing the SATARAID/AHCI driver and press <Enter>. Select
AMD AHCI Compatible
RAID Controller-x86 platform
and press <Enter>.
Step 3:
On the next screen, press <Enter> to continue the driver installation. After the driver installation, you can proceed
with the Windows XP installation.