Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive. Select your required
item on the list according to the mode you choose and the OS you install.
Then press any key.
E.
The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII
drivers into the floppy diskette.
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STEP 3: Install Windows
After making a SATA / SATAII driver diskette, you can start to install Windows
64-bit on your system. At the beginning of Windows
party AHCI driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette containing
the NVIDIA
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AHCI driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. Select
the driver to install according to the OS you install. The
drivers are as below:
A. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP
B. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP64
Please select A for Windows
in AHCI mode.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs without NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
B.
Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [non-RAID].
STEP 2: Install Windows
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If you want to install Windows
HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs with NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY
B.
Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [AHCI].
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STEP 2: Install Windows
Insert the Windows
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Vista
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to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install Windows
Vista
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64-bit OS on your system. When you see "Where do you want to install Windows?
" page, please insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive, and click the "Load
Driver" button on the left on the bottom to load the NVIDIA
drivers are in the following path in our Support CD:
ASRock 4CoreN73PV-HD720p Motherboard
XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
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setup, press F6 to install a third-
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XP in AHCI mode. Please select B for Windows
Advanced screen
XP / XP 64-bit OS on your system.
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Vista
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/ Windows
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Vista
Advanced screen
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Vista
/ Vista
64-bit OS on your system.
/ Windows
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Vista
TM
64-bit optical disk into the optical drive
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XP / XP
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XP 64-bit
IDE Configuration.
64-bit
64-bit
64-bit
64-bit
64-bit
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64-bit on your SATA / SATAII
IDE Configuration.
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/ Windows
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