On our website, we list all of the platform that can support Windows 7 (Intel 200 series / 100 series / N3000 series / J3000 series / AMD AM4 series) .

If you are finding an installation of Windows 7, you could get it from the following link

=> https://www.biostar.com.tw/app/en/event/windowstool/index.htm .

For the older models, that don't have Windows 7 driver due to chipset manufacturers support limitation.

However, Windows 7 will support most of them by using default drivers in OS.

If there is any problem after installing Windows 7, please use the E-Support to ask for the help.

1. 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.

2. Procedures during Win XP installation
When seeing 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

3. 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.

For motherboard to detect two OS system properly, it will be better by install the OS on each hard drive seperately. Otherwise, the boot sector might go to C drive and second OS might not be able recognize properly. At beginning, install first OS on first hard drive, do not connect second hard drive on system. After finish installation OS and drivers, then shut down system and remove first hard drive. Then connect second hard drive on system to install second OS. After finish OS and driver installation, then shut down the system and connect back the first hard drive back to system. At start up, press F9 key on boot screen to select first or second hard drive. System will be able to boot into selected OS properly.

You might download the drivers from following links to support Vista. ftp://152.104.238.19/pc/audio/6243_Vista_APO.zip ftp://202.65.194.211/pc/audio/6243_Vista_APO.zip ftp://61.56.69.18/pc/audio/6243_Vista_APO.zip

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.

To install NVIDIA RAID technology on a new Windows XP operating system, a floppy disk with the NVIDIA IDE drivers must be created to enable installation of NVIDIA RAID
To create the NVIDIA IDE drivers floppy disk, the end user must
1. Copy these files from the NVIDIA nForce?driver directory (IDE/WinXP or
Win2K) onto a formatted floppy disk
Txtsetup.oem
Nvraid.sys
NvAtaBus.sys
NVRAID driver download

2. Go into the BIOS setup menu and enable RAID
a. In the BIOS menu, specify which disks should be dedicated to RAID
b. Exit the BIOS menu and reboot
3. At the RAID ROM screen, press F10 to enter RAID setup
a. Create a RAID array and add disks to it
b. Select "Yes" when asked to clear disk data
c. Reboot system
4. Select F6 when prompted
5. Install the NVIDIA RAID drivers created on the floppy disk
Select both the RAID and IDE drivers from the floppy to enable RAID functionality
6. Continue with the driver installation process