User manual ASROCK K8UPGRADE-NF3

[. . . ] K8Upgrade-NF3 User Manual Version 1. 1 Published July 2006 Copyright©2006 ASRock INC. All rights reserved. 1 Copyright Notice: No part of this manual may be reproduced, transcribed, transmitted, or translated in any language, in any form or by any means, except duplication of documentation by the purchaser for backup purpose, without written consent of ASRock Inc. Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. Disclaimer: Specifications and information contained in this manual are furnished for informational use only and subject to change without notice, and should not be constructed as a commitment by ASRock. ASRock assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions that may appear in this manual. [. . . ] STEP 1: Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis. STEP 2: Connect the SATA power cable to the SATA hard disk. STEP 3: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard's SATA connector. STEP 4: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the SATA hard disk. 2. 8 Realtek Audio Driver Installation For Windows ME If your system is Windows ME, please make sure to install USB 2. 0 driver before installing Realtek Audio driver; for other driver installation, please follow the driver order in our support CD. 19 2. 9 Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on your SATA HDDs with RAID functions, please follow the below steps. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. When you see the message on the screen, "Do you want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press <Y>. Then you will see these messages, Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive. Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it!Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press <Y>. The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers into the floppy diskette. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option from [non-RAID] to [RAID]. STEP 3: Use "RAID BIOS Setting Utility" to set RAID configuration. Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration", which is located in the folder at the following path: . . \ RAID BIOS Setting Utility After step1, 2, 3, you can start to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit. NOTE. If you install Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions, you still need to set up "SATA Operation Mode" to [RAID] first. Then, please set the RAID configuration by using "RAID Utility for Windows" in Windows environment. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, "Guide to nVidia RAID Utility for Windows", which is located in the folder at the following path: . . \ RAID Utility for Windows 20 2. 10 Installing Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions If you just want to install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on your SATA HDDs without RAID functions, you don't have to make a SATA driver diskette. Besides, there is no need for you to change the BIOS setting. You can start to install Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows XP 64-bit on your system directly. Windows Windows SAT 2. 11 Installing W indows 98 SE / W indows ME on SATA HDD If you want to install Windows 98 SE / Windows ME on SATA HDD, it must be installed on SATA 1 in order to finish the OS installation process. [. . . ] Boot Up Num-Lock If this item is set to [On], it will automatically activate the Numeric Lock function after boot-up. 36 3. 6 Security Screen In this section, you may set or change the supervisor/user password for the system. For the user password, you may also clear it. BIOS SETUP UTILITY H/W Monitor Boot Main Advanced Security Exit Security Settings Supervisor Password User Password : Not Installed : Not Installed Install or Change the password. Change Supervisor Password Change User Password Clear User Password Enter F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02. 54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. 37 3. 7 Exit Screen Main Exit Options Save Changes and Exit Discard Changes and Exit Discard Changes Load Optimal Defaults Advanced BIOS SETUP UTILITY H/W Monitro Boot Security Exit system setup after saving the changes. Exit F10 key can be used for this operation. Enter F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Go to Sub Screen General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02. 54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. Save Changes and Exit When you select this option, it will pop-out the following message, "Save configuration changes and exit setup?" Select [OK] to save the changes and exit the BIOS SETUP UTILITY. Discard Changes and Exit When you select this option, it will pop-out the following message, "Discard changes and exit setup?" Select [OK] to exit the BIOS SETUP UTILITY without saving any changes. Discard Changes When you select this option, it will pop-out the following message, "Discard changes?" Select [OK] to discard all changes. [. . . ]