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3.5

RAID driver installation

Creating a RAID driver disk

A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows

2000/XP operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID
set. You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using FreeDOS from the
support CD).

To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment:

Place the motherboard support CD in the optical drive.

Restart the computer, then enter the BIOS Setup.

Set the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the
support CD. Save your changes, then exit the BIOS Setup.

Restart the computer. The following screen appears during POST.

Place a blank, high-density floppy disk to the floppy disk drive, then
press the number of your choice. The following message will appear:

1) Make Sil3114 32bit SATA/RAID Driver Disk

2) Make Sil3114 64bit SATA/RAID Driver Disk

3) Make Nvidia 2000 RAID Driver Disk

4) Make Nvidia XP RAID Driver Disk

5) Make Nvidia 2003 RAID Driver Disk

6) Make Nvidia 64bit XP RAID Driver Disk

7) Make Nvidia 64bit 2003 RAID Driver Disk

8) Format Floppy Disk

9) FreeDOS command prompt

Please choose 1 ~ 9:

Press any key to continue. The RAID drivers are copied to the floppy
disk.

Eject the floppy disk, then write-protect it to prevent computer virus
infection.

Press any key to continue.

To install the RAID driver:

During OS installation, the system prompts you to press the F6 key to
install third-party SCSI or RAID driver.

Press then insert the floppy disk with RAID driver into the floppy
disk drive.

Follow the succeeding screen instructions to complete the installation.

Warning!!!

Bootable CD will delete all data in floppy

Press a key to continue.