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Quick start guide for tempo sata e4p – Sonnet Technologies Tempo SATA E4P Serial ATA Host Controller PCI Express Card User Manual

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Quick Start Guide for Tempo SATA E4P

13. When the Windows has successfully updated your driver

software window appears, click Close; you may now format
drives attached to the Tempo card. Skip to page 7 for drive
formatting information.

Windows XP Professional Driver Installation

This section describes the installation of drivers to support the
Tempo SATA E4P in systems running Windows XP Professional.

1. Turn on your computer; during startup, two New Hardware

Found pop-ups may briefly appear, with IDE Controller and
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller listed as the new
hardware types.

2. Log onto the Internet. Go to http://www.sonnettech.com/

support/kb/kb.php, click on the Computer Cards link, and
then click on the PCIe Cards link.

3. Locate and click the Tempo SATA E4P link, then the

Driver link, and then click Tempo SATA Pro Family Driver
(Windows) x.x.x. Click the Download Now link. Depending
on how your computer is configured, a new window may
appear asking you what to do with the file; click Open. If
another window appears asking for permission to open the
file, click Allow.

4. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel. When the Control

Panel window appears, double-click the System icon. (If the
System icon is not visible, click the Switch to Classic View
link to make it appear.)

5. When the System Properties window appears, click the

Hardware tab, and then click Device Manager.

6. When the Device Manager window appears, click the + sign

next to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers to expand the list. Right-
click “Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller” and then
select Update Driver.

7. When the Hardware Update Wizard window appears, select

“No, not this time”, and then click Next.

8. When the next window appears, click “Install from a list or

specific location”, and then click next.

9. When the next window appears, click “Don’t search. I will

choose the driver to install”, and then click Next.

10. When the next window appears, select Standard Dual

Channel PCI IDE Controller, and then click Have Disk.

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Windows Vista Driver Installation

This section describes the download and installation of drivers to
support the Tempo SATA E4P in systems running Windows Vista.

1. Turn on your computer and log in; during startup, an

Installing Device Driver Software pop-up will appear, followed
by a message that the device driver software was not
successfully installed. Close the message.

2. Log onto the Internet. Go to http://www.sonnettech.com/

support/kb/kb.php, click on the Computer Cards link, and
then click on the PCIe Cards link.

3. Locate and click the Tempo SATA E4P link, then the

Driver link, and then click Tempo SATA Pro Family Driver
(Windows) x.x.x. Click the Download Now link. Depending
on how your computer is configured, a new window may
appear asking you what to do with the file; click Open. If
another window appears asking for permission to open the
file, click Allow.

4. When the window showing the contents of the .zip

file appears, accept the default location or select a new
destination for the files to be extracted, note the name and
location of the file, and then click Extract Files.

5. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel. In the Control Panel

window, double-click Device Manager. If you haven’t
disabled User Account Control (UAC), a UAC window will
appear; click Continue.

6. When the Device Manager window appears, click the arrow

next to IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers to expand the list. Right-
click “Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller” and
select Update Driver Software.

7. When the next window appears, click “Let me pick from a

list of device drivers on my computer”.

8. When the Select the device driver window appears, click Have

Disk.

9. When the Install From Disk window appears, click Browse.

10. When the Locate File window appears, double-click the

Vistax.x.x folder. Double-click the appropriate folder (x32 for
32-bit operating systems, x64 for 64-bit versions), and then
double-click the “mvsata” file.

11. Back in the Install from Disk window, click OK.

12. Back in the Select the device driver window, click Next; the

driver software will be installed.

Support Note:

After its driver software has been

updated, Tempo SATA E4P will be listed as a Storage

Controller in the Device Manager window under Windows Vista.