User manual ASUS P7H55

[. . . ] If you do not want to create RAID with the SATA controller, you may prepare only one hard drive. (d) Driver CD for your motherboard. (1) Installing SATA hard drive(s) in your system Attach one end of the SATA signal cable to the rear of the SATA hard drive and the other end to available SATA port(s) on the motherboard (If there are more than one SATA controller on your motherboard, you may check the name of the SATA connector, which helps you identify the SATA controller for the connector. For example, SATA0_SII is controlled by the Silicon Image SiI3512 SATA controller). Then connect the power connector from your power supply to the hard drive. "*" Skip this step if you do not plan to create RAID array on the SATA controller. [. . . ] SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3512) -2- (2) Configuring SATA controller mode and boot sequence in BIOS Setup You have to make sure whether the SATA controller is configured correctly in system BIOS Setup and set BIOS boot sequence for the SATA hard drive(s). Step 1: Turn on your computer and press the Del key to enter BIOS Setup during POST (Power-On Self Test). If you want to create RAID, select Serial ATA Function under the Integrated Peripherals menu (Figure 1) and set this item to RAID (RAID by default). Set Serial ATA Function to BASE if you do not want to create RAID. CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2004 Award Software Integrated Peripherals IDE Function Setup On-Chip Primary PCI IDE On-Chip Secondary PCI IDE USB Host Controller USB Keyboard Support USB Mouse Support Serial-ATA 2(Internal PHY) AC97 Audio On-Chip LAN(nVIDIA) Onboard Serial ATA Serial ATA Function Onboard 1394 Onboard LAN Control Onboard LAN Boot ROM Onboard Serial Port 1 Onboard Serial Port 2 Onboard Parallel Port Parallel Port Mode x ECP Mode Use DMA higf: Move Enter: Select F5: Previous Values [Press Enter] [Enabled] [Enabled] [V1. 1+V2. 0] [Disabled] [Disabled] [Enabled] [Auto] [Auto] [Enabled] [RAID] [Enabled] [Enabled] [Disabled] [3F8/IRQ4] [2F8/IRQ3] [378/IRQ7] [SPP] 3 +/-/PU/PD: Value F6: Fail-Safe Defaults F10: Save Item Help Menu Level } ESC: Exit F1: General Help F7: Optimized Defaults Figure 1 The BIOS Setup menus described in this section may not show the exact settings for your motherboard. The actual BIOS Setup menu options you will see shall depend on the motherboard you have and the BIOS version. -3- SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3512) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å Step 2: Select Hard Disk Boot Priority under the Advanced BIOS Features menu and then choose the model of the SATA hard drive onto which you want to install Microsoft Windows 2000/XP (Figure 2). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2004 Award Software Hard Disk Boot Priority 1. Bootable Add-in Cards Item Help Menu Level }} Use <h> or <i> to select a device, then press <+> to move it up, or <-> to move it down the list. Press <ESC> to exit this menu. hi: Move PU/PD/+/-: Change Priority F10: Save ESC: Exit Figure 2 Step 3: Set First Boot Device under the Advanced BIOS Features menu to CDROM to boot from CD-ROM after system restarts (Figure 3). CMOS Setup Utility-Copyright (C) 1984-2004 Award Software Advanced BIOS Features } Hard Disk Boot Priority First Boot Device Second Boot Device Third Boot Device Boot Up Floopy Seek Password Check Flexible AGP 8X Init Display First [Press Enter] [CDROM] [Hard Disk] [CDROM] [Disabled] [Setup] [Auto] [AGP] Item Help Menu Level} 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 3 Step 4: Save and exit BIOS Setup. SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3512) -4- (3) Configuring RAID set in RAID BIOS To create a RAID array on the SATA controller, you have to enter the RAID setup utility to select RAID level. Skip this step and proceed to Section 4 on page 8 if you do not want to create RAID. Step 1: After the Power-On Self-Test (POST) memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message which says "Press <Ctrl+S> or F4 to enter RAID utility" (Figure 4). First of all, you have to copy the driver for the SATA controller from the motherboard driver CD to a floppy disk. Step 1: Find an available system and insert the motherboard driver CD into the CD-ROM drive. Step 2: Go to My Computer and right-click the CD-ROM icon (this procedure assumes Drive D) and select Open (Figure 10). Figure 10 Then you should see folders and files contained in the driver CD. Go to the BootDrv folder and look for a file named MENU. exe (Figure 11). Figure 11 SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3512) -8- Step 3: Double-click MENU. exe. An MS-DOS prompt screen similar to Figure 12 will appear. Figure 12 Step 4: Insert an empty floppy disk. If you do not want to create RAID array, press 3 to select the SiIBASE item. If you want to create RAID array(s), press 4 to select the SiIRAID item. Then it will take about one minute to copy the SATA driver from the motherboard driver CD to the floppy disk. You have copied the SATA driver successfully. Figure 13 -9- SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3512) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation Now that you have prepared a floppy disk with the SATA driver and adjusted BIOS settings, you can begin to install Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard disk with the SATA driver. [. . . ] You have copied the SATA driver successfully. Figure 13 -9- SATA Hard Drive Configurations (Sil3512) Ác Åé ¤¤ ¤å (5) Installing SATA controller driver during OS installation Now that you have prepared a floppy disk with the SATA driver and adjusted BIOS settings, you can begin to install Windows 2000/XP onto your SATA hard disk with the SATA driver. Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows 2000/XP Setup disk and press F6 as soon as you see a message which says "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. " After pressing the F6 key, there will be a few moments of some files being loaded before you see the next screen for you to specify the SATA controller on your motherboard. Windows Setup Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver. Figure 14 Step 2: When a screen similar to that below appears, insert the floppy disk containing the SATA driver and press S to specify the SATA controller (Figure 15). Then you will be asked to select the SATA controller on your motherboard. 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 device(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. [. . . ]