User manual ASROCK N73PV-S INSTALLATION GUIDE V 1-0 - 11-2008

[. . . ] N73PV-GS / N73PV-S User Manual Version 1. 0 Published November 2008 Copyright©2008 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. [. . . ] The SATA / SATAII HDD, which cannot support Hot Plug function, will be damaged under the Hot Plug operation. Please make sure the SATA / SATAII driver is installed into system properly. The latest SATA / SATAII driver is available on our support website: www. asrock. com 4. Make sure to use the SATA power cable & data cable, which are from our motherboard package. Please follow below instructions step by step to reduce the risk of HDD crash or data loss. 25 How to Hot Plug a SATA / SATAII HDD: Points of attention, before you process the Hot Plug: Please do follow below instruction sequence to process the Hot Plug, improper procedure will cause the SATA / SATAII HDD damage and data loss. Step 1 Please connect SATA power cable 1x4-pin end Step 2 Connect SATA data cable to the motherboard's SATAII connector. (White) to the power supply 1x4-pin cable. SATA power cable 1x4-pin power connector (White) Step 3 Connect SATA 15-pin power cable connector (Black) end to SATA / SATAII HDD. Step 4 Connect SATA data cable to the SATA / SATAII HDD. How to Hot Unplug a SATA / SATAII HDD: Points of attention, before you process the Hot Unplug: Please do follow below instruction sequence to process the Hot Unplug, improper procedure will cause the SATA / SATAII HDD damage and data loss. Step 1 Unplug SATA data cable from SATA / SATAII HDD side. Step 2 Unplug SATA 15-pin power cable connector (Black) from SATA / SATAII HDD side. 26 2 . 1 4 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical drive first. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly. 2 . 1 5 Installing Windows ® XP / XP 64-bit / Vista TM / Vista TM Without Functions 64-bit W ithout RAID F unctions If you want to install Windows® XP, Windows® XP 64-bit, Windows® VistaTM or Windows® VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below procedures according to the OS you install. 2. 15. 1 Installing Windows ® XP / XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions Functions If you want to install Windows® XP / Windows® XP 64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps. Using SATA / SATAII HDDs with NCQ and Hot Plug functions STEP 1: Set Up BIOS. Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration. Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [AHCI]. STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (There are two ASRock Support CD in the motherboard gift box pack, please choose the one for Windows® XP / XP 64-bit. ) B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot device. When you see the message on the screen, "Generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press <Y>. Then you will see these messages, Please choose: 1. Generate AHCI Driver diskette for WindowsXP 2. [. . . ] 7 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. Main Smart BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced H/W Monitor Boot Security Exit Security Settings Supervisor Password : Not Installed User Password : Not Installed Change Supervisor Password Change User Password Install or Change the password. Enter F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02. 54 (C) Copyright 1985-2005, American Megatrends, Inc. 49 3 . 8 Exit Screen Main Smart BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced H/W Monitor Boot Security Exit Exit Options Save Changes and Exit Discard Changes and Exit Discard Changes Would you like to save current setting user defaults ?Save 1st User Defaults Load 1st User Defaults Save 2nd User Defaults Load 2nd User Defaults Save 3rd User Defaults Load 3rd User Defaults Exit system setup after saving the changes. [. . . ]