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RAID Installation Guide - Page 1
Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration
1. Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation 2 1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation 2 1.2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette 3
2. Guide to RAID Configurations 4 2.1 Introduction of RAID 4 2.2 RAID Configuration Precautions 6 2.3 BIOS Configuration Utility 7 2.3.1 Enter BIOS Configuration Utility 7 2.3.2 Create Disk Array 8 ...
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1.1 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation
This motherboard adopts VIA VT8237 southbridge chipset that supports Serial ATA (SATA) hard disks. You may install SATA hard disks on this motherboard for internal storage devices. This section will guide you to install the SATA hard disks. STEP 1: Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your
chassis. STEP 2: Connect the SATA power cable to...
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1.2 Making An SATA Driver Diskette
If you want to install Windows 2000 or Windows XP on your SATA HDDs, you will need to make an SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation.
STEP 1: Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. (Do NOT insert any floppy diskette into the floppy drive at this moment!)
STEP 2: During POST at...
RAID Installation Guide - Page 4
... south bridge chipset that integrates RAID controller supporting RAID 0 / RAID 1 / JBOD function with two independent Serial ATA (SATA) channels. This section will introduce the basic knowledge of RAID, and the guide to configure RAID 0, RAID 1, and JBOD settings.
RAID
The term "RAID" stands for "Redundant Array of Independent Disks", which is a method combining two or more hard disk drives into...
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JBOD (Spanning)
A spanning disk array is equal to the sum of all drives. Spanning stores data onto a drive until it is full then proceeds to store files onto the next drive in the array. When any member disk fails, it will affect the entire array. JBOD is not really a RAID, and it does not support fault tolerance.
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3. Installation of Windows 2000 / Windows XP
For the installation of Windows 2000 or Windows XP, please insert Windows 2000 or Windows XP CD into the optical drive. Then remove the floppy diskette, and reboot the system. At the very beginning, you will see the message at the bottom of the screen, "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver...."
At...
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... SATA HDD driver diskette and pressing key, you will see the different versions of the SATA HDD drivers for you to install. Please use arrow keys to move the highlight bar to make your selection according to the OS you use.
When the installation of the SATA HDD drivers is complete, please continue to follow the instructions of Windows 2000 or Windows...
RAID Utility for Windows Guide - Page 1
... with graphical user interface and provides user an easy-operation tool to configure and manage disk drives or disk arrays connected to VT8237 SATA controller.
After GUI software is installed, it will automatically start every time
when your Windows OS is started. An icon
will appear in the
system tray of the tool bar to indicate that GUI...
User Manual - Page 3
... CPU Installation 12 2.2 Installation of CPU Fan and Heatsink 12 2.3 Installation of Memory Modules (DIMM 13 2.4 Expansion Slots (PCI, PCI Express, and HDMR Slots 14 2.5 Easy Multi Monitor Feature 14 2.6 Jumpers Setup 15 2.7 Onboard Headers and Connectors 16 2.8 Serial ATA (SATA) Hard Disks Installation 19 2.9 Hot Plug and Hot Swap Functions for SATA HDDs 19 2.10 Installing Windows 2000...
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1 x ASRock K8VM890 Motherboard (Micro ATX Form Factor: 9.6-in x 8.4-in, 24.4 cm x 21.3 cm)
1 x ASRock K8VM890 Quick Installation Guide 1 x ASRock K8VM890 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 1 x Serial ATA (SATA) HDD Power Cable (Optional) 1 x HD 8CH I/O Shield 1 x COM Port Bracket 1 x HDMR Card...
User Manual - Page 7
...4 pin 12V power connector - CD in header - Front panel audio connector - 2 x USB 2.0 headers (support 4 USB 2.0 ports)
(see CAUTION 6) - 4Mb AMI BIOS - AMI Legal BIOS - Supports "Plug and Play" - ACPI 1.1 Compliance Wake Up Events - SMBIOS 2.3.1 Support - Supports jumperfree - Drivers, Utilities, AntiVirus Software - CPU Temperature Sensing - Motherboard Temperature Sensing - CPU Overheat Shutdown...
User Manual - Page 8
... thermal grease between the CPU and the heatsink when you install the PC system.
5. For microphone input, this motherboard supports both stereo and mono modes. For audio output, this motherboard supports 2-channel, 4-channel, 6-channel, and 8-channel modes. Please check the table on page 10 for proper connection.
6. Power Management for USB 2.0 works fine under Microsoft® Windows® XP SP1...
User Manual - Page 14
... on K8VM890 motherboard.
PCIE Slots: PCIE1 (PCIE x 16 slot) is used for PCI Express cards with x16 lane width graphics cards. PCIE2 (PCIE x 1 slot) is used for PCI Express cards, such as Gigabit LAN card, SATA2 card, etc.
PCI Slots: PCI slots are used to install expansion cards that have the 32-bit PCI interface.
HDMR slot: The HDMR slot is used to insert a HDMR card with v.92 Modem functionality...
User Manual - Page 17
... sources such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, TV tuner card, or MPEG card. This is an interface for the front panel audio cable that allows convenient connection and control of audio devices.
1. High Definition Audio supports Jack Sensing, but the panel wire on the
chassis must support HDA to function correctly. Please follow the
instruction in our manual and chassis manual to install your system.
2. If...
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... Installing Windows 2000 / XP / XP 64-bit With RAID Functions
If you want to install Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Windows XP-64bit OS on your SATA HDDs with RAID functions, please follow the below steps.
STEP 1: Make a SATA Driver Diskette. A. Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system. B. During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press key, and then a
window...
User Manual - Page 21
...set up RAID functions, there is no need to make a SATA driver diskette.
2.12 Untied Overclocking Technology
This motherboard supports Untied Overclocing Technology, which means during overclocking, FSB enjoys better margin due to fixed PCI / PCIE buses. Before you enable Untied Overclocking function, please enter "Overclock Mode" option of BIOS setup to set the selection from [Auto] to [CPU, PCIE...
User Manual - Page 22
...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...and then back on.
Because the BIOS software is constantly being updated, the following BIOS setup screens and descriptions are for reference ...
User Manual - Page 31
... item to configure the type of the IDE device that you specify. Configuration options: [Not Installed], [Auto], [CD/DVD], and [ARMD]. [Not Installed]: Select [Not Installed] to disable the use of IDE device. [Auto]: Select [Auto] to automatically detect the hard disk drive.
After selecting the hard disk information into BIOS, use a disk utility, such as FDISK, to partition and...
User Manual - Page 38
... BIN folder in the Support CD to display the menus.
4.2.2 Drivers Menu
The Drivers Menu shows the available devices drivers including ASRock Express GbL PCI Express LAN card driver if the system detects the installed devices. Please install the necessary drivers to activate the devices.
4.2.3 Utilities Menu
The Utilities Menu shows the applications software that the motherboard supports. Click on...
User Manual - Page 39
... feature, please make sure to install "AMD Processor Driver" from the "Support CD" first. If you are using Windows 2000/XP operating system, please follow the instruction below to enable AMD's Cool 'n' QuietTM technology:
1. From the Windows 2000/XP operating system, click the Start button. Select Settings, then Control Panel.
2. Switch to Classic View. (for Windows XP only) 3. Double-click...