User manual ASROCK P4VM890 R2.0

[. . . ] P4VM890 User Manual Version 2. 1 Published August 2007 Copyright©2007 ASRock INC. All rights reserved. 1 Copyright Notice: No part of this manual may be reproduced, transcribed, transmitted, or translated in any language, in any form or by any means, except duplication of documentation by the purchaser for backup purpose, without written consent of ASRock Inc. Products and corporate names appearing in this manual may or may not be registered trademarks or copyrights of their respective companies, and are used only for identification or explanation and to the owners' benefit, without intent to infringe. Disclaimer: Specifications and information contained in this manual are furnished for informational use only and subject to change without notice, and should not be constructed as a commitment by ASRock. ASRock assumes no responsibility for any errors or omissions that may appear in this manual. [. . . ] STEP 1: Install the SATA hard disks into the drive bays of your chassis. STEP 3: Connect one end of the SATA data cable to the motherboard's SATA connector. STEP 4: Connect the other end of the SATA data cable to the SATA hard disk. Functions SAT 2. 8 Hot Plug and Hot Swap Functions for SATA HDDs P4VM890 motherboard supports Hot Plug and Hot Swap functions for SATA Devices. NOTE What is Hot Plug Function? If the SATA HDDs are NOT set for RAID configuration, it is called "Hot Plug" for the action to insert and remove the SATA HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition. However, please note that it cannot perform Hot Plug if the OS has been installed into the SATA HDD. What is Hot Swap Function? If SATA HDDs are built as RAID1 then it is called "Hot Swap" for the action to insert and remove the SATA HDDs while the system is still power-on and in working condition. 19 SAT Feature 2. 9 SATA HDD Hot Plug Feature and Operation Guide This motherboard supports Hot Plug feature for SATA HDD. Please read below operation guide of SATA HDD Hot Plug feature carefully. Before you process the SATA HDD Hot Plug, please check below cable accessories from the motherboard gift box pack. SATA power cable SATA 7-pin connector The SATA 15-pin power connector (Black) connect to SATA HDD 1x4-pin conventional power connector (White) connect to power supply Caution 1. Without SATA 15-pin power connector interface, the SATA Hot Plug cannot be processed. Even some SATA HDDs provide both SATA 15-pin power connector and IDE 1x4-pin conventional power connector interfaces, the IDE 1x4-pin conventional power connector interface is definitely not able to support Hot Plug and will cause the HDD damage and data loss. Points of attention, before you process the Hot Plug: 1. Below operation procedure is designed only for our motherboard, which supports SATA HDD Hot Plug. * The SATA Hot Plug feature might not be supported by the chipset because of its limitation, the SATA Hot Plug support information of our motherboard is indicated in the product spec on our website: www. asrock. com 2. Make sure your SATA HDD can support Hot Plug function from your dealer or HDD user manual. The SATA HDD, which cannot support Hot Plug function, will be damaged under the Hot Plug operation. The latest SATA driver is available on our support website: www. asrock. com 4. Make sure to use the SATA power cable & data cable, which are from our motherboard package. Please follow below instructions step by step to reduce the risk of HDD crash or data loss. 20 How to Hot Plug a SATA HDD: Points of attention, before you process the Hot Plug: Please do follow below instruction sequence to process the Hot Plug, improper procedure will cause the SATA HDD damage and data loss. Step 1 Please connect SATA power cable 1x4-pin end (White) to the power supply 1x4-pin cable. Step 2 Connect SATA data cable to the motherboard's SATA connector. SATA power cable 1x4-pin power connector (White) Step 3 Connect SATA 15-pin power cable connector (Black) end to SATA HDD. Step 4 Connect SATA data cable to the SATA HDD. How to Hot Unplug a SATA HDD: Points of attention, before you process the Hot Unplug: Please do follow below instruction sequence to process the Hot Unplug, improper procedure will cause the SATA HDD damage and data loss. Step 1 Unplug SATA data cable from SATA HDD side. Step 2 Unplug SATA 15-pin power cable connector (Black) from SATA HDD side. 21 2. 10 Driver Installation Guide To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical drive first. 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. 11 AMR Card and Driver Installation If you do not insert AMR card to this motherboard, and you finish installing all drivers to your system now, but in the future, you plan to use AMR card function on this motherboard, please follow the steps below then. Reboot your system. 2. 12 Installing Windows ® 2000 / XP With RAID Functions If you want to install Windows® 2000 / Windows® XP OS on your SATA HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps. [. . . ] PCI IDE BusMaster Use this item to enable or disable the PCI IDE BusMaster feature. 3. 3. 6 Floppy Configuration In this section, you may configure the type of your floppy drive. BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Floppy Configuration Floppy A Floppy B [1. 44 MB 31 2"] [Disabled] Select the type of floppy drive connected to the system. +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02. 54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. 35 3. 3. 7 Super IO Configuration BIOS SETUP UTILITY Advanced Configure Super IO Chipset OnBoard Floppy Controller Serial Port Address Infrared Port Address Parallel Port Address Parallel Port Mode EPP Version ECP Mode DMA Channel Parallel Port IRQ [Enabled] [3F8 / IRQ4] [Disabled] [378] [ECP + EPP] [1. 9] [DMA3] [IRQ7] Allow BIOS to Enable or Disable Floppy Controller. +F1 F9 F10 ESC Select Screen Select Item Change Option General Help Load Defaults Save and Exit Exit v02. 54 (C) Copyright 1985-2003, American Megatrends, Inc. OnBoard Floppy Controller Use this item to enable or disable floppy drive controller. Serial Port Address Use this item to set the address for the onboard serial port or disable it. Configuration options: [Disabled], [3F8 / IRQ4], [2F8 / IRQ3], [3E8 / IRQ4], [2E8 / IRQ3]. Infrared Port Address Use this item to set the address for the onboard infrared port or disable it. [. . . ]