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User Manual - Page 3
...24 2.9 SATAII Hard Disk Setup Guide 27 2.10 Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATAII (SATAII) Hard Disks
Installation 28 2.11 Hot Plug and Hot Swap Functions for SATA / SATAII HDDs ....... 29 2.12 SATA / SATAII HDD Hot Plug Feature and Operation Guide ....... 30 2.13 Driver Installation Guide 32 2.14 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM /
VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions 33 2.14...
User Manual - Page 4
... Floppy Configuration 49 3.3.7 Super IO Configuration 49 3.3.8 USB Configuration 50 3.4 Hardware Health Event Monitoring Screen 51 3.5 Boot Screen 52 3.5.1 Boot Settings Configuration 52 3.6 Security Screen 53 3.7 Exit Screen 54
4 . Software Support 55
4.1 Install Operating System 55 4.2 Support CD Information 55
4.2.1 Running Support CD 55 4.2.2 Drivers Menu 55 4.2.3 Utilities Menu...
User Manual - Page 5
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1 x ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 Motherboard (ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 8.4-in, 30.5 cm x 21.3 cm)
1 x ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 Quick Installation Guide 1 x ASRock ALiveDual-eSATA2 Support CD 1 x Ultra ATA 66/100/133 IDE Ribbon Cable (80-conductor) 1 x 3.5-in Floppy Drive Ribbon Cable 2 x Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cables (Optional) 1 x Serial ATA (SATA) HDD Power Cable (Optional) 1 x HDMI_SPDIF Cable...
User Manual - Page 32
... and plan to install drivers to your system from the support CD, since the NVIDIA® nForce3 250 SATA driver provided by the chipset vendor has not submitted Windows® Logo yet, we provide you with the following driver installation choices: 1. "All in 1 Logo Driver( Without RAID Driver)": You may choose this item to install
all-in-1 logo driver which does not support RAID functions, but...
User Manual - Page 33
...® SATAII ports with RAID functions, please set the "PCIE-SATAII Operation Mode" option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot device. C. When you...
User Manual - Page 34
...® RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. Select your required driver to install according to the SATA / SATAII controller support vendor and the OS you install. The driver options are as below: 1. NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) Windows XP/2000 2. NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) Windows XP64 3. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP...
User Manual - Page 36
....microsoft.com/Windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/ spdeploy.htm#the_integrated_installation_fmay
STEP 1: Set up BIOS. A. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. B. If you plan to install Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit on NVIDIA® SATA ports without
RAID functions, please set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [non-RAID]. If you plan to install Windows® 2000...
User Manual - Page 38
...BIOS SETUP UTILITY to configure your system. The Flash Memory on the motherboard stores the BIOS SETUP UTILITY. You may run the BIOS SETUP UTILITY when you start up the computer. Please press during the Power-On-Self-Test (POST) to enter the BIOS SETUP...and then back on.
Because the BIOS software is constantly being updated, the following BIOS setup screens and descriptions are for reference ...
User Manual - Page 55
...-ROM drive. The CD automatically displays the Main Menu if "AUTORUN" is enabled in your computer. If the Main Menu did not appear automatically, locate and double click on the file "ASSETUP.EXE" from the BIN folder in the Support CD to display the menus.
4.2.2 Drivers Menu
The Drivers Menu shows the available devices drivers if the system detects the installed devices...
User Manual - Page 56
... Core CPU on this motherboard, please refer to below instructions. A. NVIDIA® AGP Card (Windows® VistaTM 32-bit):
Under Windows® VistaTM 32-bit OS, you need to install NVIDIA® XP GART (AGP) driver. Please follow below steps. 1. Install the driver from the following path of our support CD:
\Drivers\ALL in 1\nVIDIA\XP_2K(511_special) or download the driver from: http://www.asrock...
User Manual - Page 57
...software anyway". 7. Then follow the installation instructions to finish the installation
process. B. NVIDIA® AGP Card (Windows® VistaTM 64-bit):
Under Windows® VistaTM 64-bit OS, you need to install NVIDIA® XP 64-bit GART (AGP) driver. Please follow below steps. 1. Install the driver from the following path of our support CD:
\Drivers\ALL in 1\nVIDIA\XP64(514_Logo) or download...
Quick Installation Guide - Page 27
... / VistaTM 64-bit OS, since Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit driver keeps on updating now. As long as we have the latest driver, we will update it to our website in the future. Please visit our website for Microsoft® Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit driver and related information. ASRock website http://www. asrock.com
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Quick Installation Guide - Page 28
...® SATAII ports with RAID functions, please set the "PCIE-SATAII Operation Mode" option to [RAID]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot device. C. When you...
Quick Installation Guide - Page 29
... RAID Tool" in Windows® environment, please install SATA drivers from the Support CD again so that "NVIDIA RAID Tool" will be installed to your system as well. If you want to use "JMicron RAID Tool" in Windows® environment, please install SATAII drivers from the Support CD again so that "JMicron RAID Tool" will be installed to your system as well.
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Quick Installation Guide - Page 31
... JMicron® AHCI driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. The driver options are as below: 1. NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) Windows XP/2000 2. NVIDIA RAID CLASS DRIVER (required) Windows XP64 3. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP/2000 4. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP64
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Quick Installation Guide - Page 168
... Core CPU on this motherboard, please refer to below instructions.
A. NVIDIA® AGP Card (Windows® VistaTM 32-bit): Under Windows® VistaTM 32-bit OS, you need to install NVIDIA® XP GART (AGP) driver. Please follow below steps. 1. Install the driver from the following path of our support CD: \Drivers\ALL in 1\nVIDIA\XP_2K(511_special) or download the driver from: http://www.asrock...
Quick Installation Guide - Page 169
...software anyway". 7. Then follow the installation instructions to finish the installation
process.
B. NVIDIA® AGP Card (Windows® VistaTM 64-bit): Under Windows® VistaTM 64-bit OS, you need to install NVIDIA® XP 64-bit GART (AGP) driver. Please follow below steps. 1. Install the driver from the following path of our support CD: \Drivers\ALL in 1\nVIDIA\XP64(514_Logo) or download...
RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
... plan to install Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit on JMicron SATAII ports with RAID functions, please set the
"PCIE-SATAII Operation Mode" option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
A.
Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.
B.
During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears...
RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
... below steps.
NOTE. Since NVIDIA does not provide Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit RAID driver, RAID function is not available on SATA ports of this motherboard under Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit OS. If you install Windows Vista / Vista 64-bit OS on this motherboard, RAID function is only available on SATAII ports.
STEP 1: Set up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY → Advanced screen →IDE...
RAID Installation Guide - Page 6
...and NVIDIA Windows RAID installation guide.
2.1 NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide
NVIDIA BIOS RAID Installation Guide is an instruction for you to configure RAID functions by using NVIDIA RAID Utility under BIOS environment. After you make a SATA driver diskette, press to enter BIOS setup to set the option to RAID mode by following the detailed instruction of the "User Manual" in our support CD...