User manual ASROCK H81M-HDS

[. . . ] With respect to the contents of this manual, ASRock does not provide warranty of any kind, either expressed or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties or conditions of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. In no event shall ASRock, its directors, officers, employees, or agents be liable for any indirect, special, incidental, or consequential damages (including damages for loss of profits, loss of business, loss of data, interruption of business and the like), even if ASRock has been advised of the possibility of such damages arising from any defect or error in the manual or product. This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. [. . . ] STEP 3: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard’s SATA2 / SATA3 connector. STEP 4: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the SATA2 / SATA3 hard disk. Please be noted that SATA3 connectors do not support RAID function. If you want to use RAID function, please use SATA2 connectors. 8 Hot Plug and Hot Swap Functions for SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs This motherboard supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap functions for SATA2 / SATA3 in RAID / AHCI mode. AMD SB710 and ASMedia ASM1061 chipsets provide hardware support for Advanced Host controller Interface (AHCI), a new programming interface for SATA host controllers developed thru a joint industry effort. If the SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs are NOT set for RAID configuration, it is called “Hot Plug” for the action to insert and remove the SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition. However, please note that it cannot perform Hot Plug if the OS has been installed into the SATA2 / SATA3 HDD. If SATA2 HDDs are built as RAID 1 then it is called “Hot Swap” for the action to insert and remove the SATA2 HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition. Before you process the SATA / SATAII HDD Hot Plug, please check below cable accessories from the motherboard gift box pack. SATA power cable with SATA 15-pin power connector interface A. Please follow the order from up to bottom side to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly. 11 Installing Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit / XP / XP 64-bit on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA / SATA2 HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below procedures according to the OS you install. 1 Installing Windows® XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® XP / XP 64-bit on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA / SATA2 HDDs with RAID functions, please follow 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, “Generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?Then you will see these messages, Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive. Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it! start to format and copy files [YN]?Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press any key. [. . . ] Boot From Onboard LAN Use this item to enable or disable the Boot From Onboard LAN feature. Bootup Num-Lock If this item is set to [On], it will automatically activate the Numeric Lock function after boot-up. 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. [. . . ]