ASRock H61M-ITX [31/55] 7 64 bit vista

Connect SATA data cable to

the motherboard’s SATAII connector.

2.14 Driver Installation Guide

To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical

drive rst. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and

listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side

to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly.

2.15 Installing Windows

7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

/ Vista

64-bit / XP

/ XP 64-bit Without RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows

7 / 7 64-bit / Vista

/ Vista

64-bit / XP / XP 64-

bit OS on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below

procedures according to the OS you install.

2.15.1 Installing Windows

XP / XP 64-bit Without RAID

Functions

If you want to install Windows

XP / XP 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATAII HDDs

without RAID functions, please follow below steps.

Using SATA / SATAII HDDs with NCQ function

STEP 1: Set Up UEFI.

A. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen SATA Conguration.

B. Set the option “SATA Mode Selection” to [AHCI].

STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette. (Please use USB oppy or

oppy disk.)

A. Insert the Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.

B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press <F11> key, and then a

window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CD-ROM as the boot

device.

C. When you see the message on the screen, “Do you want to generate Serial

ATA driver diskette [YN]?”, press <Y>.

D. Then you will see these messages,

Please insert a diskette into the oppy drive.

WARNING! Formatting the oppy diskette will

lose ALL data in it!

Start to format and copy les [YN]?

Please insert a oppy diskette into the oppy drive, and press <Y>.

E. The system will start to format the oppy diskette and copy SATA / SATAII drivers

into the oppy diskette.