[ Keys Available ] [ Keys Available ] Figure 10 Appendix 5-1-2 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7/Vista/XP. A. Installing Windows 7/Vista (The following instructions use Windows 7 as the example operating system.) Step 1: You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Copy the Hw7 folder under BootDrv in the driver disk. Step 2: Boot from the Windows 7 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting you to load the driver appears, select Browse. Step 3: Then browse to the USB flash drive and select the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows: RAID driver for Windows 7 32-bit: Hw7\RAID\x86 RAID driver for Windows 7 64-bit: Hw7\RAID\x64 AHCI driver for Windows 7 32-bit: Hw7\AHCI\W7 AHCI driver for Windows 7 64-bit: Hw7\AHCI\W764A Step 4: When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller and click Next to load the driver and continue the OS installation. Figure 1 Appendix B. Installing Windows XP Before installing Windows XP, connect a USB floppy disk drive to your computer first because you need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from a floppy disk that contains the driver during the OS installation. Without the driver, the hard drive(s) may not be recognized during the Windows setup process. First, copy the driver from the motherboard driver disk to a floppy disk. Refer to the methods below. Method A: ••For the AMD A75 Chipset, copy all files in the \BootDrv\Hxp folder to your floppy disk. Method B: Steps: 1. Use an alternative system and insert the motherboard driver disk. 2. From your optical drive folder, double click the Menu.exe file in the BootDrv folder. A Command Prompt window will open similar to that in Figure 2. 3. Insert the blank formatted disk (if you're using a USB floppy disk drive, make sure it is designated as drive A). Select the controller driver by pressing the corresponding letter from the menu and press . For example, from the menu in Figure 2, for the AMD A75 Chipset, select 6) hseries AHCI/RAID for XP. Your system will then automatically copy the driver files to the floppy disk. Press any key to exit when finished. Figure 2 Appendix Refer to the following for installing the driver during the Windows setup process. Step 1: Restart your system to boot from the Windows XP setup disk and press as soon as you see the message "Press F6 if you need to install a 3rd party SCSI or RAID driver." A screen will then appear asking you to specify an additional SCSI adapter. Press . Step 2: Insert the floppy disk containing the SATA RAID/AHCI driver and press . Then a controller menu similar to that in Figure 3 will appear. Select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform and press . Windows Setup You have chosen to configure a SCSI Adapter for use with Windows, using a device support disk provided by an adapter manufacturer. Select the SCSI Adapter you want from the following list, or press ESC to return to the previous screen. AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x64 platform ENTER=Select F3=Exit Figure 3 Step 3: On the next screen, press to continue the driver installation. After the driver installation, you can proceed with the Windows XP installation. Appendix Rebuilding an Array: Rebuilding is the process of restoring data to a hard drive from other drives in the array. Rebuilding applies only to fault-tolerant arrays such as RAID 1 and RAID 10. To replace the old drive, make sure to use a new drive of equal or greater capacity. The procedures below assume a new drive is added to replace a failed drive to rebuild a RAID 1 array. While in the operating system, make sure the Chipset driver has been installed from the motherboard driver disk. Then install the AMD RAID Utility (go to Application Software\Install Application Software and select AMD RAID Utility to install). Then launch the AMD RAIDXpert from All Programs in the Start Menu. Step 1: Enter the login ID and password (default: "admin"), and then click Sign in to launch AMD RAIDXpert. Step 2: Select the RAID array to be rebuilt under Logical Drive View and click the Rebuild tab in the Logical Drive Information pane. Step 3: Select one available drive and click Start Now to start the rebuilding process. Step 4: The rebuilding progress is displayed on the screen and you can select Pause/Resume/Abort during the rebuilding process. Step 5: When done, the array's status on the Information page in the Logical Drive Information pane will display as Functional. Appendix 5-2 Configuring Audio Input and Output 5-2-1 Configuring 2/4/5.1/7.1-Channel Audio The motherboard provides three audio jacks on the back panel which support 2/...
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