Biostar

1) One Short Beep Sound During Boot-up; --System check is okay and no problem found. 2) Long Beeps Every Other Second; -- It means no DRAM detected by the system or DRAM is not installed. 3) One Long Beep Followed By Two Short Beeps; -- It means video card memory is bad or video card cannot recognize by the system. 4) High-Low Siren Sound; -- It means CPU is over-heated and system will shut down automatically to protect the CPU.

Because StudioFun v1.21 will memorize the last state of the system. So it need to press Alt+W combination key to switch back to Windows mode after StudioFun installation.

If you need to switch from Windows environment to Studio Fun program, please install SFSwitch program. The program will allow you to switch back from Windows to StudioFun by press combination key Alt+L.

IDEQ 200N, 200V and 200P use VIA 8237/6420 chipset to control SATA hard drive. So it require a driver during Windows installation.Without that particular driver, the system unable to recognize the SATA HDD. During Windows 2000 and XP installation, press F6 to install third party driver. After that, insert the floppy disk which contain the SATA driver. The installation process will continue after the system able to detect the SATA HDD.

VIA SATA RAID driver under the following directory in the driver CD.
x:\Driver\SATA\VT6420\DriverDisk\SATA

Please copy all of the files and folders into a floppy disk, then Windows will be able to recognize the driver. Or you can unzip the driver to a floppy disk from following link.

https://download.biostar.com.tw/upload/Driver/Chipset/VIA/SATA/Disk/RAID/drvdisk.exe

http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=961

1. Enable SATA RAID function in BIOS.
2. Create SATA RAID array in Intel RAID configuration utility.
3. Download floppy configuration utility from Intel!|s website and extract it into a floppy disk.
   http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=961
4. When install Windows XP, press F6 to install STAT RAID driver and follow the instruction to complete the loading.
5. After Windows installation, install Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition 3.0.
6. Use Intel Application Accelerator RAID Edition to create RAID volume from existing disk.
7. Follow the RAID migration instructions to complete the setting.

1. After Power On Self-Test (POST), the following message will appear on the screen:
   Press to enter Raid Configuration utility
   After the above message, press the and keys simultaneously.
2. Select option 1 Create RAID Volume and press the key.
3. Select the strip value for the RAID 0 array by scrolling through the available values by using the or keys and pressing the key.
4. The available values range from 4 KB to 128 KB in power of 2 increments. The strip value should be chosen based on the planned drive usage. Some suggested selections are listed below. The default selection is 128 KB.
   ' 16 KB !V low disk usage
   ' 64 KB !V typical disk usage
   ' 128 KB !V performance disk usage
5. As the Create Volume prompt, press the key to create the array. Confirm this selection by pressing the key after the prompt.
6. Scroll to option 4 Exit and press the key to exit the RAID Configuration utility.
   Confirm the exit by pressin