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... hard drives with the SATA controller, you may prepare only one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system. (2) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in...below: ¤å (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in RAID BIOS. (4) Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller driver. (5) Install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. Before you begin Please prepare: (a) Two SATA hard drives (to ensure optimal performance, it is recommended ...
... hard drives with the SATA controller, you may prepare only one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system. (2) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in...below: ¤å (1) Install SATA hard drive(s) in RAID BIOS. (4) Make a floppy disk containing the SATA controller driver. (5) Install the SATA controller driver during OS installation. Before you begin Please prepare: (a) Two SATA hard drives (to ensure optimal performance, it is recommended ...
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... Open (Figure 11). Quit the installation utility first. Figure 12 - 9 - (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drives on the ICH6R controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to a floppy disk. The installation utility...
... Open (Figure 11). Quit the installation utility first. Figure 12 - 9 - (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install Windows 2000/XP onto a SATA hard drives on the ICH6R controller successfully, you need to install required driver for the SATA controller during the Windows setup process. First of all, you need to a floppy disk. The installation utility...
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...Intel ICH7R) - 10 - An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 13 below will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to select 7) Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager 32bit. Figure 14 If you wish to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure ...14). Step 6: Press 0 to install 64-bit Windows Operating System, select 8) Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager 64bit. Then it will appear. Åé ¤¤ ...
...Intel ICH7R) - 10 - An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 13 below will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to select 7) Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager 32bit. Figure 14 If you wish to exit when the procedure is complete (Figure ...14). Step 6: Press 0 to install 64-bit Windows Operating System, select 8) Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager 64bit. Then it will appear. Åé ¤¤ ...
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...or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you do not want to install Windows 2000/XP onto your system to boot from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you are ... storage device manufacturer, or do not have a device support disk from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6 as soon as you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation Now that below appears, insert the floppy disk containing the ...
...or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you do not want to install Windows 2000/XP onto your system to boot from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you are ... storage device manufacturer, or do not have a device support disk from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6 as soon as you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation Now that below appears, insert the floppy disk containing the ...
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...GH SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH). Ác Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in about one minute. Windows Setup ¤å You have a device support disk from the motherboard driver CD. Then it will be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct ...DH)* and press ENTER. Select the SCSI Adapter you want to load the SATA driver from the floppy disk. The driver installation will begin to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, including those for which you have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with...
...GH SATA AHCI Controller (Desktop ICH7R/DH). Ác Step 3: If Setup correctly recognizes the driver in about one minute. Windows Setup ¤å You have a device support disk from the motherboard driver CD. Then it will be found, please check the floppy disk or copy the correct ...DH)* and press ENTER. Select the SCSI Adapter you want to load the SATA driver from the floppy disk. The driver installation will begin to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, including those for which you have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with...
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.... This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to be installed under Windows once for that , the driver will have installed the SATA controller driver successfully. After that hard drive. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit... ICH7R) After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have to run on your computer. You can proceed with the Windows 2000/XP installation. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, ...
.... This port of the Setup program prepares Microsoft(R) Windows (R) XP to be installed under Windows once for that , the driver will have installed the SATA controller driver successfully. After that hard drive. To quit Setup without installing Windows XP, press F3. Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit... ICH7R) After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have to run on your computer. You can proceed with the Windows 2000/XP installation. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, ...
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...note that the exact power requirements will depend on your VGA monitor via an adapter. II. Graphics Card Driver Setting: Step 1: After installing graphics card driver in the PCIE_16_2 slot. From the ATI CATALYST Control Center, enter the CrossFire menu and assure to select ...CrossFire Mode-Connecting Two Graphics Cards: Step 1: Observe the steps in "1-5 Installation of the slave card. Supported Operating Systems: Only Windows XP operating system is able to provide sufficient power to the CrossFire cable or connect your overall system configurations. DMS Connector (Master Card...
...note that the exact power requirements will depend on your VGA monitor via an adapter. II. Graphics Card Driver Setting: Step 1: After installing graphics card driver in the PCIE_16_2 slot. From the ATI CATALYST Control Center, enter the CrossFire menu and assure to select ...CrossFire Mode-Connecting Two Graphics Cards: Step 1: Observe the steps in "1-5 Installation of the slave card. Supported Operating Systems: Only Windows XP operating system is able to provide sufficient power to the CrossFire cable or connect your overall system configurations. DMS Connector (Master Card...
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... system and then list all items defaulted. For USB2.0 driver support under "Device Manager". Drivers Installation System will reboot automatically after install the drivers, afterward you want and press "install" followed the item; in "Universal Serial Bus controller" under Windows XP operating system, please use Windows Service Pack. If not, please double click the CD...
... system and then list all items defaulted. For USB2.0 driver support under "Device Manager". Drivers Installation System will reboot automatically after install the drivers, afterward you want and press "install" followed the item; in "Universal Serial Bus controller" under Windows XP operating system, please use Windows Service Pack. If not, please double click the CD...
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... well as software. - 65 - Intel x86 platforms 2. Save the settings and exit the BIOS Setup. Insert the provided driver CD into your hard disk. Upon system restart, the message which says "Boot from CD/DVD: Press any key to run Xpress Recovery2 later, you ... to use the Xpress Recovery2 Initial access by booting from CD-ROM and subsequent access by booting from CD-ROM. Supporting Microsoft operating systems including Windows XP/2000/NT/98/Me and DOS, and file systems including FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS, Xpress Recovery2 is able to provide quick backup and restoration...
... well as software. - 65 - Intel x86 platforms 2. Save the settings and exit the BIOS Setup. Insert the provided driver CD into your hard disk. Upon system restart, the message which says "Boot from CD/DVD: Press any key to run Xpress Recovery2 later, you ... to use the Xpress Recovery2 Initial access by booting from CD-ROM and subsequent access by booting from CD-ROM. Supporting Microsoft operating systems including Windows XP/2000/NT/98/Me and DOS, and file systems including FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS, Xpress Recovery2 is able to provide quick backup and restoration...
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...) hard disks. 7. SATA IDE channel 3 f. It is normal that data backup takes longer time than 128G under Windows 2000, be sure to be backed up data from the driver CD before data backup. 2. Limitations: 1. Hard disks detection sequence is as follows: a. SATA IDE channel 4 Precautions...related issue, it can be solved by BIOS update) GA-K8U GA-K8U-9 GA-K8NXP-SLI GA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI GA-K8NXP-9 GA-K8N Ultra-9 GA-K8NF-9 (PCB Ver. 1.0) GA-K8NE (PCB Ver. 1.0) GA-K8NMF-9 GA-8N-SLI Royal GA-8N-SLI Pro GA-8N-SLI GA-G1975X Motherboard - 66 - SATA IDE channel 1 d. Xpress...
...) hard disks. 7. SATA IDE channel 3 f. It is normal that data backup takes longer time than 128G under Windows 2000, be sure to be backed up data from the driver CD before data backup. 2. Limitations: 1. Hard disks detection sequence is as follows: a. SATA IDE channel 4 Precautions...related issue, it can be solved by BIOS update) GA-K8U GA-K8U-9 GA-K8NXP-SLI GA-K8N Ultra-SLI GA-K8N Pro-SLI GA-K8NXP-9 GA-K8N Ultra-9 GA-K8NF-9 (PCB Ver. 1.0) GA-K8NE (PCB Ver. 1.0) GA-K8NMF-9 GA-8N-SLI Royal GA-8N-SLI Pro GA-8N-SLI GA-G1975X Motherboard - 66 - SATA IDE channel 1 d. Xpress...
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... recommended that you use two hard drives with the SATA controller, you may prepare only one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system. (2) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup. (3)* Configure RAID...
... recommended that you use two hard drives with the SATA controller, you may prepare only one hard drive. (b) An empty formatted floppy disk. (c) Windows XP/2000 setup disk. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system. (2) Configure SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup. (3)* Configure RAID...
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... disk. Fig.12 Fig. 13 (Note 1) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. First of all, copy the driver for Windows operating system(Note 2). Prepare a startup disk that in MS-DOS mode(Note1). For example, from the motherboard...CD-ROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in your system. GA-G1975X Motherboard - 86 - Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during OS installation. English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install operating system onto a serial ATA hard disk successfully, you...
... disk. Fig.12 Fig. 13 (Note 1) For users without a startup disk: Use an alternative system and insert the GIGABYTE motherboard driver CD-ROM. First of all, copy the driver for Windows operating system(Note 2). Prepare a startup disk that in MS-DOS mode(Note1). For example, from the motherboard...CD-ROM drive folder, double click the MENU.exe file in your system. GA-G1975X Motherboard - 86 - Without the driver, the hard disk may not be recognized during OS installation. English (4) Making a SATA Driver Disk To install operating system onto a serial ATA hard disk successfully, you...
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... adapter. The following mass storage devices(s) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for use with the SATA driver. Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of some files being loaded before you see the "Press F6 if you are ready...
... adapter. The following mass storage devices(s) * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for use with the SATA driver. Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of some files being loaded before you see the "Press F6 if you are ready...
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... the following list, or press ESC to return to continue the SATA driver installation from the motherboard driver CD. GA-G1975X Motherboard - 88 - English Step 3: Use the ARROW keys on your keyboard to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. Windows Setup Setup will be found, please check the floppy disk or...
... the following list, or press ESC to return to continue the SATA driver installation from the motherboard driver CD. GA-G1975X Motherboard - 88 - English Step 3: Use the ARROW keys on your keyboard to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. Windows Setup Setup will be found, please check the floppy disk or...
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.... Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 19 (Note: Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have installed the SATA controller driver successfully. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. It indicates that you should see a screen as below. WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to...
.... Enter= Continue R=Repair F3=Exit Figure 19 (Note: Each time you add a new hard drive to a RAID array, the RAID driver will not have installed the SATA controller driver successfully. To repair a Windows XP installation using Recovery Console, press R. It indicates that you should see a screen as below. WindowsXP Professional Setup Welcome to...
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... use the Audio Combo Kit. To configure speakers, click the Speaker Settings icon. Creative Audio Control Panel GA-G1975X Motherboard - 90 - Accessing Creative Speaker Settings Method One: After installation of the audio driver, you should find a Creative Volume Control icon in Windows XP.) For users who wish to open the Creative Audio Control Panel.
... use the Audio Combo Kit. To configure speakers, click the Speaker Settings icon. Creative Audio Control Panel GA-G1975X Motherboard - 90 - Accessing Creative Speaker Settings Method One: After installation of the audio driver, you should find a Creative Volume Control icon in Windows XP.) For users who wish to open the Creative Audio Control Panel.