Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2 (rev.4.1) [80/100] B installing windows vista

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B. Installing Windows Vista

(The procedure below assumes that only one RAID array exists in your system.)

Step 1:

Restart your system to boot from the Windows Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps.

When a screen similar to that below appears (RAID hard drive will not be detected at this stage), select Load

Driver (Figure 3).

Figure 3

Figure 4

Step 2:

Insertthemotherboarddriverdisk(MethodA)ortheremovablestoragedevicesuchasUSBashdrivethat

contains the SATA RAID/AHCI driver (Method B), then specify the location of the driver (Figure 4). Note: For

usersusingaSATAopticaldrive,besuretocopythedriverlesfromthemotherboarddriverdisktoaUSB

ashdrivebeforeinstallingWindowsVista(gototheBootDrv folder and save the whole SBxxxV folder to

theUSBashdrive).ThenuseMethodBtoloadthedriver.

Method A:

Insert the motherboard driver disk into your system and browse to the following directory:

\BootDrv\SBxxxV\LH

For Windows Vista 64-bit, browse to the LH64A folder.

Method B:

Insert the USBash drive containingthe driver les andbrowse totheLH (for Windows Vista 32-bit) or

LH64A (for Windows Vista 64-bit) folder.