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User Manual - Page 3
... Guide 23 2.8 SATAII Hard Disk Setup Guide 24 2.9 Serial ATA (SATA) / Serial ATAII (SATAII) Hard Disks
Installation 25 2.10 Hot Plug and Hot Swap Functions for SATA / SATAII HDDs ....... 25 2.11 Driver Installation Guide 25 2.12 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit / VistaTM /
VistaTM 64-bit Without RAID Functions 26 2.12.1 Installing Windows® 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit Without RAID...
User Manual - Page 4
... Floppy Configuration 42 3.3.7 Super IO Configuration 42 3.3.8 USB Configuration 43
3.4 Hardware Health Event Monitoring Screen 44 3.5 Boot Screen 45
3.5.1 Boot Settings Configuration 45 3.6 Security Screen 46 3.7 Exit Screen 47
4 . Software Support 48
4.1 Install Operating System 48 4.2 Support CD Information 48
4.2.1 Running Support CD 48 4.2.2 Drivers Menu 48 4.2.3 Utilities Menu...
User Manual - Page 5
...1.1 Package Contents
1 x ASRock ALiveNF5-VSTA Motherboard (ATX Form Factor: 12.0-in x 7.6-in, 30.5 cm x 19.3 cm)
1 x ASRock ALiveNF5-VSTA Quick Installation Guide 1 x ASRock ALiveNF5-VSTA Support CD 1 x Ultra ATA 66/100/133 IDE Ribbon Cable (80-conductor) 1 x 3.5-in Floppy Drive Ribbon Cable 1 x Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cable (Optional) 1 x Serial ATA (SATA) HDD Power Cable (Optional) 1 x HDMI_SPDIF...
User Manual - Page 7
...12V power connector
- CD in header
- Front panel audio connector
- 1 x USB 2.0 header (supports 2 USB 2.0 ports)
(see CAUTION 9)
- 1 x WiFi/E header (see CAUTION 10)
BIOS Feature
- 4Mb AMI BIOS
- AMI Legal BIOS
- Supports "Plug and Play"
- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events
- Supports jumperfree
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
Support CD
- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version...
User Manual - Page 24
2.8 SATAII Hard Disk Setup Guide
Before installing SATAII hard disk to your computer, please carefully read below SATAII hard disk setup guide. Some default setting of SATAII hard disks may not be at SATAII mode, which operate with the best performance. In order to enable SATAII function, please follow the below instruction with different vendors to correctly adjust your SATAII hard disk to SATAII...
User Manual - Page 26
...64-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs with NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B.
Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [AHCI].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
A.
Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your...
User Manual - Page 27
...the OS you install. The
drivers are as below:
A. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP/2000 B. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP64
Please select A for Windows® 2000 / XP in AHCI mode. Please select B for Windows® XP 64-bit in AHCI mode.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs without NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY...
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..., please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B.
Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
Please make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette by following section 2.12.1 step 2 on
page 26.
STEP 3: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID configuration.
Before you start to...
User Manual - Page 29
... Windows RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD: .. \ RAID Installation Guide
2.13.2 Installing Windows® VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID
Functions
If you want to install Windows® VistaTM / Windows® VistaTM 64-bit on your SATA /
SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP...
User Manual - Page 31
...
This section explains how to use the BIOS SETUP UTILITY to configure your system. The Flash Memory on the motherboard stores the BIOS SETUP UTILITY. You may run the BIOS SETUP UTILITY when you start up the computer. Please press during the Power-On-Self-Test (POST) to enter the BIOS SETUP UTILITY, otherwise, POST will continue with its test routines. If you...
User Manual - Page 48
...-ROM drive. The CD automatically displays the Main Menu if "AUTORUN" is enabled in your computer. If the Main Menu did not appear automatically, locate and double click on the file "ASSETUP.EXE" from the BIN folder in the Support CD to display the menus.
4.2.2 Drivers Menu
The Drivers Menu shows the available devices drivers if the system detects the installed devices...
Quick Installation Guide - Page 4
....5 cm x 19.3 cm)
1 x ASRock ALiveNF5-VSTA Quick Installation Guide 1 x ASRock ALiveNF5-VSTA Support CD 1 x Ultra ATA 66/100/133 IDE Ribbon Cable (80-conductor) 1 x 3.5-in Floppy Drive Ribbon Cable 1 x Serial ATA (SATA) Data Cable (Optional) 1 x Serial ATA (SATA) HDD Power Cable (Optional) 1 x HDMI_SPDIF Cable (Optional) 1 x "ASRock HD 6CH I/O" I/O Shield
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Quick Installation Guide - Page 6
...12V power connector
- CD in header
- Front panel audio connector
- 1 x USB 2.0 header (supports 2 USB 2.0 ports)
(see CAUTION 9)
- 1 x WiFi/E header (see CAUTION 10)
BIOS Feature
- 4Mb AMI BIOS
- AMI Legal BIOS
- Supports "Plug and Play"
- ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events
- Supports jumperfree
- SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support
Support CD
- Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software (Trial Version...
Quick Installation Guide - Page 21
..., for changing various ATA features. Please visit HITACHI's website for details: http://www.hitachigst.com/hdd/support/download.htm
The above examples are just for your reference. For different SATAII hard disk products of different vendors, the jumper pin setting methods may not be the same. Please visit the vendors' website for the updates.
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Quick Installation Guide - Page 23
...-bit on your SATA / SATAII HDDs without RAID functions, please follow below steps.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs with NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen
IDE Configuration.
B.
Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [AHCI].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
A.
Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your...
Quick Installation Guide - Page 24
...the OS you install. The
drivers are as below:
A. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP/2000 B. NVIDIA nForce Storage Controller (required) Windows XP64
Please select A for Windows® 2000 / XP in AHCI mode. Please select B for Windows® XP 64-bit in AHCI mode.
Using SATA / SATAII HDDs without NCQ and Hot Plug functions
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY...
Quick Installation Guide - Page 25
...; XP / Windows® XP 64-bit OS on your system. At the beginning of Windows® setup, press F6 to install a
third-party RAID driver. When prompted, insert the SATA / SATAII driver diskette containing the NVIDIA® RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the drivers will be presented.
Select the drivers to install. The drivers are as below: 25
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Quick Installation Guide - Page 26
.../ Windows® VistaTM 64-bit on IDE HDDs and want to manage (create, convert, delete, or rebuild) RAID functions on SATA / SATAII HDDs, you still need to set up "SATA Operation Mode" to [RAID] in BIOS first. Then, please set the RAID configuration by using the Windows RAID installation guide in the following path in the Support CD: .. \ RAID Installation Guide
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Quick Installation Guide - Page 28
... using the Support CD, insert the CD into your CDROM drive. It will display the Main Menu automatically if "AUTORUN" is enabled in your computer. If the Main Menu does not appear automatically, locate and double-click on the file "ASSETUP.EXE" from the "BIN" folder in the Support CD to display the menus.
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RAID Installation Guide - Page 5
... to install Windows® 2000 / Windows® XP / Windows® XP 64-bit on your SATA
/ SATAII HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.
STEP 1: Set Up BIOS.
A.
Enter BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen IDE Configuration.
B.
Set the "SATA Operation Mode" option to [RAID].
STEP 2: Make a SATA / SATAII driver diskette.
A.
Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to...