User manual GIGABYTE GA-MG400

[. . . ] Step 1: Turn on your computer and press Del to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). In the example in Figure 1, make sure that Serial-ATA-II 1 or Serial-ATA-II 2 under the Integrated Peripherals menu is enabled (Serial-ATAII-1 controls the SATAII0/1 connectors and Serial-ATAII-2 controls the SATAII2/3 connectors). If you wish to create RAID array, press ENTER on the SATAII RAID Config item to enter the submenu . "*" Skip this step if you do not want to create RAID array on the SATA controller. [. . . ] Press <ESC> to exit this menu. hi: Move PU/PD/+/-: Change Priority F10: Save ESC: Exit Figure 4 SATA Configurations (Nvidia nForce430) -4- Step 3: To boot from Windows installation CD-ROM, set First Boot Device under the Advanced BIOS Features menu to CDROM (Figure 5). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2005 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features } Hard Disk Boot Priority First Boot Device Second Boot Device Third Boot Device Boot Up Floppy Seek Password Check Init Display First [Press Enter] [CDROM] [Hard Disk] [CDROM] [Disabled] [Setup] [PEG] Item Help Menu Level} Select Hard Disk Boot Device Priority higf: Move Enter: Select F5: Previous Values +/-/PU/PD: Value F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F10: Save ESC: Exit F1: General Help F7: Optimized Defaults Figure 5 Step 4: Save and exit BIOS Setup. -5- SATA Configurations (Nvidia nForce430) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS Enter the RAID BIOS setup utility to configure a RAID array. Skip this step and proceed to Section 4 if you do not want to create RAID. Step 1: After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility" (Figure 6). Hit the F10 key to enter the RAID BIOS setup utility. MediaShield IDE ROM BIOS 6. 21 Copyright (C) 2005 NVIDIA Corp. Press F10 to enter RAID setup utility . . . Figure 6 Step 2¡G The Define a New Array screen is the first option screen when you enter the NVIDIA RAID setup utility. You can press the TAB key to highlight through options. Step 3: In the RAID Mode field, use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to select a RAID mode. The supported RAID modes include Mirroring (default), Striping, Stripe Mirroring, Spanning and Raid 5. The following is an example of RAID 0 array creation. Step 4: If RAID 0 (Striping) is selected, you can manually set the striping block size. In the Striping Block field, use the UP or DOWN ARROW key to set the Striping Block size. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 14 below will appear (Note). Figure 14 Step 5: Insert an empty floppy disk and select the nVIDIA Serial ATA driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu (for example, from the menu in Figure 14, press I to select nVIDIA C51 Series Raid (XP) if you wish to install Windows XP or press J to select nVIDIA C51 Series Raid (2K) if you wish to install Windows 2000). Then it will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. Step 6: Press 0 to exit when the procedure is complete. (Note): The name of the drivers in the menu might differ, depending on the version of your driver CD-ROM disk. SATA Configurations (Nvidia nForce430) - 10 - (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation Now that you have prepared the SATA driver disk and configured BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard drive with the driver. The following is an example of Windows XP installation. Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6 as soon as you see the "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver" message (Figure 15). After pressing F6, there will be a few moments of some files being loaded before you see the next screen. Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. Figure 15 Step 2: When a screen similar to that below appears (Figure 16), insert the floppy disk containing the SATA driver and press S. Windows Setup Setup could not determine the type of one or more mass storage devices installed in your system, or you have chosen to manually specify an adapter. Currently, Setup will load support for the following mass storage devices(s) <none> * To specify additional SCSI adapters, CD-ROM drives, or special disk controllers for use with Windows, including those for which you have a device support disk from a mass storage device manufacturer, press S. * If you do not have any device support disks from a mass storage device manufacturer, or do not want to specify additional mass storage devices for use with Windows, press ENTER. S=Specify Additional Device Enter=Continue F3=Exit Figure 19 After the SATA controller driver installation is completed, you should see a screen similar to that below. You can proceed with the Windows 2000/XP installation now. WindowsXP Professional Setup The following list shows the existing partitions and unpartitioned space on this computer. Use the UP and DOWN ARROW keys to select an item in the list. l l l To set up Windows XP on the seleted item, press ENTER. To create a partition in the unpartitioned space, press C. [. . . ] Restart the computer to boot into Windows 2000. MediaShield RAID Utility July 27 2005 - Define a New Array RAID Mode: Striping Striping Block: Optimal Free Disks Loc Disk Model Capacity Array Clear disk data ?Disks Loc Disk Model 1. 0. M [Y] YES [N] 1. 1. M NO [g] Add ST3120026AS ST3120026AS Capacity 111. 79G 111. 79G [f ] Del [ESC] Quit [F6] Back [F7] Finish [TAB] Navigate [hi ] Select [ENTER] Popup Figure 24 - 15 - SATA Configurations (Nvidia nForce430) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 5: Install the NVIDIA nForce Driver Package while in Windows 2000 and reboot the system. Go to START>Programs>Nvidia Corporation and select NVRAID manager. You should see the single disk RAID array (in striping mode) that was created from the boot disk. [. . . ]