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Figure 1 and 2 below shows what an ATA 66 and a power Figure 1 - ATA 66 Cable
cable looks like. The ATA 66 cable which is also known as
UDMA 66 cable is an advance IDE cable, which offers higher
performance and data integrity than the standard IDE cable.
ATA 66 cable consists of 80 conductor cable where as the
standard IDE cable consists of 40 conductor cable. I am
using an ATA 66 cable because the above HDD is an ATA
100 drive which requires an ATA 66 cable.
Insert the ATA 66 cable into the ATA connector of the HDD.
Make sure the pin 1 on the cable is connected to pin 1 on
the HDD connector. Pin 1 is the red or pink strip on the
edge of an ATA cable. Most new IDE/ATA cables are
designed so that it will only go in one way which will
correspond to pin 1.
Connect the other end of the ATA 66 cable to the primary Click on any of the BIOS setup options below to setup that
ATA socket of your motherboard as shown. Make sure the feature.
pin 1 on the cable connects to the pin 1 on the ATA socket.
Softmenu III Setup PC Health Status
Standard CMOS Features Load Fail-Safe Defaults
Advanced BIOS Features Load Optimized Defaults
Advanced Chipset Features Set Password
Integrated Peripherals Save & Exit Setup
Power Management Setup Exit Without Saving
PnP/PCI Configurations
Softmenu III
Integrated Peripherals
PnP/PCI Configurations
This menu allows you to configure your PCI slots. You can
assign IRQ's for various PCI slots. It is recommended that
you leave the default settings as it can get a bit complicated
messing around with IRQ's.
Load Fail-Safe Defaults
PC Health Status
Load Optimized Defaults
This menu displays the current CPU temperature, the fan
speeds, voltages etc. You can set the warning temperature Like the Fail-Safe mode above, this option loads the BIOS
which will trigger an alarm if the CPU exceeds the specified default settings, but runs the system at optimal
performance. From the dialog box Choose "Y" followed by
enter to load Optimized Defaults.
temperature.
Set Password Install Windows XP
To password protect your BIOS you can specify a password. This procedure demonstrates how to install Windows XP
Make sure you don't forget the password or you can not Professional. The procedure to install Windows XP home
access the BIOS. The only way you can access the BIOS is edition is very similar to the professional edition. Since
by resetting it using the reset jumper on the motherboard. Windows XP Pro is more advanced operating system, it will
be used to demonstrate the installation procedure.
Step 5 - You will see a list of Raid drivers for your HDD.
Select the correct driver for your device and press enter.
Step 7 - You will be presented with the End User Licensing
Agreement. Press F8 to accept and continue
Step 8 - This step is very important. Here we will create the Step 8 - Windows will show the total size of the hard drive
partition where Windows will be installed. If you have a and ask you how much you want to allocate for the partition
brand new unformatted drive you will get a screen similar to you are about to create. I will choose 6000MB. You will then
below. In our case the drive size is 8190MB. We can choose get the screen below. Notice it shows C: Partition 1 followed
to install Windows in this drive without creating a partition, by the size 6000 MB. This indicates the partition has been
hence use the entire size of the drive. If you wish to do this created. We still have an unpartitioned space of 2189MB.
you can just press enter and Windows will automatically Next highlight the unpartitioned space by pressing down the
partition and format the drive as one large drive. arrow key. Then press C to create another partition. You will
see the total space available for the new partition. Just
However for this demonstration I will create two partition. choose all the space left over, in our case 2180MB.
The first partition will be 6000MB (C: drive) and second
partition would be 2180MB (E: drive). By creating two
partition we can have one which stores Windows and
Applications and the other which stores our data. So in the
future if anything goes wrong with our Windows install such
as virus or spyware we can re-install Windows on C: drive
and our data on E: drive will not be touched. Please note
you can choose whatever size partition your like. For
example if you have 500GB hard drive you can have two
partition of 250GB each.
Your hardware should come with manufacturer supplied You now get two options. The first option provides an
drivers. You need to install these drivers using the automatic search for the required driver. The second option
automatic setup program provided by the manufacturer or allows you to specify the location of the driver. If you don't
you need to manually install these drivers. If you do not know the location of the driver choose the automatic search
have the drivers, check the manufacturers website to which would find the required driver from the manufacturer
download them. supplied CD or Floppy disk. Windows would install the
required driver and may ask you to restart the system for
the changes to take affect. Use this procedure to install
drivers for all the devices that contain an exclamation mark.
Windows is completely setup when there are no more
exclamation marks in the device manager.