Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-HD3 User Manual - Page 32

Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install the operating system. A. Installing Windows 8/7 (The following instructions use Windows 8 as the example operating system.) Step 1: You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Copy the Hw8_A88 folder under BootDrv in the driver disk. Step 2: Boot from the Windows 8 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting you to load the driver appears, select Browse. Step 3: Then browse to the USB flash drive and select the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows: RAID driver for Windows 8 32-bit: Hw8_A88\RAID\x86 RAID driver for Windows 8 64-bit: Hw8_A88\RAID\x64 AHCI driver for Windows 8 32-bit: Hw8_A88\AHCI\W8 AHCI driver for Windows 8 64-bit: Hw8_A88\AHCI\W864A For Windows 7, browse to the Hw7_A88 folder. Step 4: Select AMD-RAID Controller and click Next to load the driver and continue the OS installation. B. Installing Windows XP (32-bit) Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer first because you need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from a floppy disk that contains the driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First, copy the driver from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. Refer to the methods below. Method A: •• For the AMD A88X, copy all files in the \BootDrv\Hxp folder to your floppy disk. 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 A88X, 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. - 32 -