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Question: How do I enable the Optane H10/H20 hybrid function on the Intel Z690/B660/H670 platform?(3/1/2022) Answer: If you want to make a fresh Windows installation with Optane H10/H20 hybrid function, please refer to the following steps:
Step 1.
Make sure that H10/H20 Optane memory is installed in an M.2 socket which supports Optane. You can find the info by checking the storage section of the motherboard specifications page on ASRock's website.
Step 2.
Enable the Hybrid Storage Detection and Configuration Mode in BIOS and press "F10” to save the settings.
Advanced\Storage Configuration\Hybrid Storage Detection and Configuration Mode
Step 3.
Go to Advanced\Storage Configuration\VMD Configuration and set Enable VMD controller to [Enabled].
Then set Enable VMD Global Mapping to [Enabled]. Press F10 to save the changes and exit setup.
Installing Windows® on a VMD platform
After the BIOS setup, please follow the steps below.
Step 1.
Please download the "SATA Floppy Image” driver from ASRock's website (https://www.asrock.com/index.asp). Unzip the file to a USB flash drive or copy the files from ASRock's motherboard support CD.
Step 2.
Press at system POST to launch the boot menu and choose the item "UEFI:
installation media>” to install Windows® 10 64-bit / 11 64-bit OS
” to install Windows® 10 64-bit / 11 64-bit OS">
Step 3.
If during the Windows installation process the target drive is not available, please click .
Step 4.
Click and locate the driver on your USB flash drive.
Step 5.
Select "Intel RST VMD Controller” and then click .
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Step 6.
Select unallocated space and then click .
Step 7.
Please follow Windows' installation instructions to finish the process.
Step 8.
After the Windows installation is finished, please install the "Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver and utility” from ASRock's website. https://www.asrock.com/index.asp
Step 9.
Launch the Intel® Optane™ Memory and Storage Management tool from the Microsoft store.
Step 10.
Select the drive which you want to accelerate. Enable Intel® Optane™ Memory. (One restart is required)
Step 11.
Erase all data on the Intel® Optane™ memory module and click
Step 12.
After the system has restarted, the Optane Management tool will show that Optane memory is enabled.
Step2:
Please unzip the SATA RAID driver which downloaded in Step1 and put the SATA RAID driver in USB flash drive.
Step3:
Please click "Load Driver" when selecting hard drive in Windows installation.
Step4:
Click "Browse"
Step5:
Choose the folder downloaded in Step1.
RSTe_f6_iaStorA_2008R2_32 is used for 32-bit operating system.
RSTe_f6_iaStorA_2008R2_64 is used for 64-bit operating system
Step6:
Select the SATA RAID driver for "Intel(R) C600 Series …." as below picture and click next to install the OS.
Question: I installed Vista x64 sp1 on ALiveNF6G-GLAN, but I cannot shut down my system after I execute the "sysprep" program under operating system. What do I do?(6/25/2009) Answer: Due to the NVIDIA® chipset specification, the HDD driver is requirement, please install the HDD driver during the installation of operating system.
Please refer to below steps to install the HDD driver:
1. Please download the driver and save the driver to floppy disk, USB driver, CD or DVD.
HDD driver download link : https://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=NF6-GLAN&s=AM2
2. Click "Load driver" icon at the "Where do you want to install Windows?" stage.
3. Then click "OK"
4. Check the icon and click "Brows"
5. Then choose the driver from the source which you saved.
6. Select the HDD driver and click "Next" to install the driver.
Question: My motherboard is ALiveNF6P-VSTA / ALiveNF6G-VSTA (MCP61 chipset). I'm encountering some problems with SATA HDD when installing the drivers of the motherboard under Windows® Vista™. What should I do?(4/28/2008) Answer: Please refer to below suggestions.
If you want to install the Windows® Vista™ with non-RAID mode:
Install the SATA driver v998 from support CD during the installation of Windows® Vista™.
The driver path in support CD is
Support CD/Drivers/ SATA2/ nVIDIA/ Vista64_Vista(112)/ IDE/ WinVista/ sata_ide.
Step1:
Step2:
Step3:
You can also download the SATA driver v998 from ASRock website and save it to a floppy diskette, USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk.
Then install the SATA driver v998 from floppy diskette, USB flash drive or CD/DVD disk during the installation of Windows® Vista™.
If you want to install the Windows® Vista™ with RAID mode:
Please refer to the NVIDIA RAID installation guide.
https://download.asrock.com/Manual/raid/ALiveNF6P-VSTA/English.pdf
Question: My motherboard is AM2XLI-eSATA2. How do I install Windows® XP on SATA HDD in AHCI mode?(8/18/2006) Answer: You need to make a SATA driver diskette before you start the OS installation. Please refer to the following steps:
Enter "SATA Operation Mode" in BIOS setup to set the option to [RAID].
Insert the ASRock Support CD into your optical drive to boot your system.
During POST at the beginning of system boot-up, press key, and then a window for boot devices selection appears. Please select CDROM as the boot device.
When you see the message on the screen, "Do you want to generate Serial ATA driver diskette [YN]?", press .
Then you will see these messages, Please insert a diskette into the floppy drive.
WARNING! Formatting the floppy diskette will lose ALL data in it!
Start to format and copy files [YN]?
Please insert a floppy diskette into the floppy drive, and press .
The system will start to format the floppy diskette and copy SATA drivers into the floppy diskette.
Restart and enter "SATA Operation Mode" in BIOS setup to set the option to [AHCI].
At the beginning of Windows® setup, press F6 to install a third-party SCSI or RAID driver. When prompted, insert a floppy disk containing the ULi® RAID driver. After reading the floppy disk, the driver will be presented. Select the driver to install according to the mode you choose and the OS you install.
Question: My motherboard is ConRoeXFire-eSATA2. When booting from support CD to make SATA floppy image driver disk, it stop with a message. What should I do?(7/21/2006) Answer: 1. When you see the message, please type "Ctrl+C", and press "y" to terminate the program.
2 Then type "satafd". Press "enter".
3.Insert floppy disk. It will start to generate the SATA floppy disk.
Or please download the driver from ASRock Web Site and copy to floppy diskette.
https://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=ConRoeXFire-eSATA2
Question: I would like to install Red Hat Linux 9.0 on my VIA 8237/8237R based motherboards. But after I finished the installation of Red Hat Linux 9.0, it hung with kernel panic during boot-up. The error message is shown as below:
How do I fix this problem?(7/15/2005) Answer: Please add VIA vmlinuz-2.4.20-8-IDE patch to Linux kernel by following steps.
First, copy the patched kernel (vmlinuz-2.4.20-8-ide) into floppy disk. Then, select one of the cases applies to your situation below.
(a)Clean install the Red Hat Linux 9.0.
Before exiting the installation of Red Hat Linux 9.0, press ++ to enter console mode. Then skip the case (b) to proceed.
(b)Use the kernel in existing Red Hat Linux 9.0 system.
Make sure the first boot device is CD_ROM in your system BIOS, then put the installation CD 1 into CD-ROM. When booting the installation CD, type the following command when the "boot:" message appears on the screen.
linux rescue /* press enter */
Then follow the instructions, and select the partition that the existing Red Hat Linux 9.0 is located in the "system to rescue" window. Then it will enter the console mode after a while.
Console mode:
After entering the console mode, run the following commands.
# cd /mnt/sysimage /* press enter */
# mount /dev/fdo mnt /* after type this command, insert the floppy and press "enter" */
# cp mnt/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8-ide boot/ /* reading the floppy for a while */
# vi boot/grub/menu.lst /* press enter and it will enter /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/menu.lst file */
Under /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/menu.lst file press "A" to enter insert mode.
Add the following lines into /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub/menu.lst file.
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) IDE-patched /* press enter */
root (hd0,0) /* press enter */
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8-ide ro root=LABEL=/ /* press enter */
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img /* press Esc to leave insert mode */
Press Esc to leave insert mode and type the command below.
:w! /* press enter to save file */
It will appear the message "boot/grub/menu.lst" 24L, 802C
Then, reboot system and enter the "Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8) IDE-patched" kernel. The problem would not happen again.
Question: I am a K8Upgrade-VM800 / P4VM8 / 775VM8 / P4V88+ / 775V88+ user. I found that a new option "SATA Operation Mode" was added in the latest production BIOS. What is the option for? How should I set it?(5/15/2005) Answer: The "SATA Operation Mode" provides two choices to install OS on the SATA hard disk.
There are two options for "SATA Operation Mode": RAID (Default) and non-RAID.
a. When choosing "RAID" mode, you have to create a SATA floppy image diskette by the support CD and press "F6" to install SATA driver at the beginning of Windows XP/2000 installation.
If you want to install Windows XP/2000 on the SATA hard disk and also want to use RAID function, please set the option to "RAID".
If you want to install Windows 98SE/Me on the SATA hard disk, please set the option to "RAID".
b. When choosing "non-RAID" mode, it is not necessary to create a SATA floppy image diskette by the support CD nor press "F6" to install SATA driver at the beginning of Windows XP/2000 installation.
It is also convenient for users who do not have floppy drive.
If you want to install Windows XP/2000 on the SATA hard disk but do not want to use RAID function, please set the option to "non-RAID".
Question: I am going to use K8 Combo-Z / 939A8X-M / K8Upgrade-1689 / K8A8X-M to build up my system. I found that there is a new option "SATA Operation Mode" was added in the latest production BIOS. What is the option for? How should I set it?(5/15/2005) Answer: The "SATA Operation Mode" provides two choices to install OS on the SATA hard disk.
There are two options for "SATA Operation Mode": RAID (Default) and non-RAID.
a. When choosing "RAID" mode, you have to create a SATA floppy image diskette by the support CD and press "F6" to install SATA driver at the beginning of Windows XP/2000 installation.
If you want to install Windows XP/2000 on the SATA hard disk and also want to use RAID function, please set the option to "RAID".
If you want to install Windows 98SE/ME on the SATA hard disk, please set the option to "RAID". Please also install the latest LAN driver (3.10a or newer version) for your new system.
b. When choosing "non-RAID" mode, it is not necessary to create a SATA floppy image diskette by the support CD nor press "F6" to install SATA driver at the beginning of Windows XP/2000 installation.
It is also convenient for users who do not have floppy drive.
If you want to install Windows XP/2000 on the SATA hard disk but do not want to use RAID function, please set the option to "non-RAID".
Question: I am a P4i48 user. After I installed Intel INF driver and restarted the system, it could not enter into OS. Why?(2/18/2005) Answer: Please make sure that the "Floppy Drive" option which in the BIOS SETUP is not set to "Not Install". Doing so may cause the system cannot enter into OS after Intel INF driver installation.
If you want to disable floppy drive in the BIOS SETUP, please disable "Floppy Controller" at the same time to prevent the problem.
Question: When I try to create the SATA driver floppy diskette for my K7S8XE+ / P4S55FX+, the free DOS program seems stop with unknown reason. What should I do now?(3/15/2004) Answer: Please download the "K7S8XE+ / P4S55FX+ SATA driver for floppy disk" file from ASRock Web Site.
https://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=K7S8XE%2b
https://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=P4S55FX%2b
After downloading, please unzip the file and save it to the floppy diskette directly.
Question: I'd just finished setting up my system. When booting it up, I found that the LED of the floppy drive is always on and I cannot read any floppy disk with the floppy drive. Why?(1/14/2004) Answer: Perhaps the floppy ribbon cable is connected to the floppy drive with the wrong orientation. Please reconnect the floppy cable and make sure to match the red marking on the floppy ribbon cable with Pin1 of the floppy drive connector. However, some floppy drives' connectors may not be easily to define Pin1. You can try to check around the connector. Usually, there will be labels for Pin1 or Pin2.
Question: My motherboard is K7S8XE+. There are error messages appeared when I am making the SATA driver diskette. What should I do?(1/14/2004) Answer: If you have trouble to make this floppy disk, you can follow the instructions below to solve the problem.
1, Please update BIOS to P1.50 or higher version. You can find the latest BIOS version on our website: https://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=K7S8XE%2b&s=462
2, Please connect a hard disk drive to your system when making this floppy disk.
3, Please do not use Mitsumi 48A0W CD drive or Mitsumi 5600W CD drive on your system when making this floppy disk. However, you can use them on your system after you finish making this floppy disk.
Question: When I install Windows XP with SATA HDD on K7S8XE+, I found driver logo warning messages during installation. What should I do?(12/12/2003) Answer: Actually you will see these kinds of warning messages (refer to the following picture) twice during Windows XP installation.
When you see the warning messages, please both select "Yes". However, if you still need the Microsoft certificated SATA driver, it is available at https://www.asrock.com/mb/download.asp?Model=K7S8XE%2b . Please download the driver and save it in a floppy disk before Windows installation.