The only AwardBIOS beep code indicates that a video error has occurred and the BIOS cannot initialize the video screen to display any additional information. This beep code consists of a single long beep followed by two short beeps. Any other beeps are probably a RAM (Random Access Memory) problems.

1. Disable the Cool n Quite function in BIOS.

CMOS > Advanced bios feature > CPU feature > AMD K8 cool & Quiet control > Disable

2. Set the FID in CMOS.

3. Remove AMD Athlon 64 driver in Windows to make OC work properly if it installed.

4. Check by CPU-Z or other CPU monitor utility to verify the result.

Please follow the procedure. 1. Press Del key to go to CMOS in POST screen. 2. Choose Load optimized default BIOS setting 3. Save and exit the BIOS After system restart, it will recognize CPU at proper speed.

Ⅰ Prepare RAID Drivers
Before create Raid, preparing a formatted floppy disk with essential Raid driver is necessary. All drivers you can get from Biostar Driver CD.

Under Windows,
Clicking “My Computer”, click right button on DVD-Rom and click “Open”
If your DVD-Rom device is E

For Win XP, the path is E:\Driver\Chipset\ATI\SB600_RAID_F6\XP
For Win Vista 32 bits, the path is E:\Driver\Chipset\ATI\SB600_RAID_F6\VISTA\x86
For Win Vista 64 bits, the path is E:\Driver\Chipset\ATI\SB600_RAID_F6\VISTA\x64
For Win 2003, the path is E:\Driver\Chipset\ATI\SB600_RAID_F6\2003

Each folder above, you can find “copytoa” execute file. Under windows, inserting a formatted disk, and click “copytoa”, it will copy all RAID drivers to the floppy disk.

Ⅱ Configuring RAID setting in BIOS setup
Turn on computer and press
Pressing “Integrated Peripherals”=> “South Onchip PCI Device”
Press “OnChip SATA Type” to “RAID”
Press F10 for saving whole settings and exit

Ⅲ Configuring RAID settings in RAID BIOS
Press + when seeing a message “Press to enter FastBuild(tm) Utility”

There are 4 options
To view the disk array, press “1” To create an array, press “2”
To delete an array, press “3” To view control setting, press ”4”

Ⅳ Creating arrays
On the screen below, creating one or multiple disk arrays is available. Please press “Enter” to create an array

Using array key (↑↓) to move, and all options can be changed by “Space Bar”
More detail for RAID 0, 1, and 10, please check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Standard_RAID_levels

An example for RAID 1, Press “Spacebar” to “RAID 1” on RAID Mode
Press “Spacebar” to “Y” on Assignment, the result which adding Hard Disk to an array.
Press “Ctrl” + “Y” to save all settings, and Press anykey to use maximum capacity.
To View on the screen, the array has been created and Press “ESC” to exit and press “Y” to reboot. After reboot, the procedures are normal OS installation

Ⅴ Procedures during Win XP installation
When installing win xp and see the message below on the screen, be sure press “F6” for loading RAID drivers

Waiting for a while, until seeing the screen below

Insert the RAID Floppy Driver Disk before press “S” to load RAID Drivers

Install Win XP Home or Professional Edition, Choose “ATI AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x86 platform”

Install Win XP 64bits Edition, Choose “ATI AHCI Compatible RAID Controller-x64 platform”

All drivers have been loaded after seeing the screen below.

Press Enter to continue

The following procedures are the same as normal Win XP installation

Ⅵ Procedures during Win Vista installation
Insert a storage device with the Vista RAID drivers
When seeing the screen below, click “Load Driver”

Press “OK”

Point out the storage device, and see the drivers on the list

Press “Next” to load the drivers

After loading the RAID driver, the array can be seen on the list

The following procedures are normal Win Vista installation.

You might update the latest Warpspeeder utility for resolve the issue. https://www.biostar.com.tw/support/software/WARPSPEED1147.exe

We strongly recommend you update the power supply to ATX v2.0 or higher. Otherwise, system might be unstable due to +12V current is not enough for latest CPU.

Please update the latest BIOS for resolve the compatible issue. https://www.biostar.com.tw/support/bios/bios.php3?model=P4M890-M7%20PCI-E

A: Dear Customer, when you have that kind of problem, please install the following driver to solve that. Thank you! http://driver1.biostar.com.tw/support/driver/ide/via/rawwritewin.exe

iDEQ300G, 330G, and 330P require F6 disk to install Windows OS in RAID array. Biostar motherboard supports USB device boot function. Users can use either USB floppy drive or USB flash sticks(supports floppy mode) to replace standard 3.5 inch floppy driver for F6 disk installation. Just copy the RAID driver files into USB flash disk, then system will be able to recognize it during Windows installation.

Open the NVIDIA Web-based Interface from the link on desktop.
Or open the utility from Start > Programs > NVIDIA Corp > Network Access Manager > Web-based Interface.
Then follow the steps on the attached picture for setup.