71 Altos R5250 Installation Configuration Guide
Windows XP Professional Edition SP2 Installation (SAS Daughter
Board)
Below information describes how to manually install Windows XP Professional
Edition on Altos R5250 with SAS daughter board.
Drivers Required
For Windows XP Installation, the following device drivers are required.
Device
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
SAS Daughter
Board
1.25.10.00 \Disk\r5250\sas\sas1068\wsxp\
Onboard NVIDIA
NFP3600 Chipset
Package 9.21
\Disk\R5250\onboard\Chipset\wsxp\
Onboard NVIDIA
nForce Networking
Controller
65.3.1.0
Including in chipset driver package
9.21
Onboard XGI Z9s
6.14.10.900
\Disk\R5250\onboard\xgiz9s\wsxp\
ATI FireGL V5200
8.323.1.0
\Disk\R5250\graphic\V5200\wsxp\
Software Required
The management utility for SAS daughter board can be found in the EasyBUILD
8.0 build 100 (or later).
Software
Version
Directory on EasyBUILD
MegaRAID Storage
Manager
2.30 \app\R5250\sas\lsi1068\Windows\
ForceWare Network
Access Manager
65.31
Including in chipset driver package
9.21
Configuring SAS Daughter Board
Please refer to the Appendix B. for the SAS daughter board configuration.
Installation Tips
1.
As Windows XP can’t recognize the SAS daughter board, you need to
make a driver diskette from the EasyBUILD 8.0 build 100 first before the
installation.
2.
Press F6 at the start of installation to provide the driver disk for the SAS
daughter board.
3.
Select “LSI PCI Fusion-MPT Driver (XP 32-bit)” as target driver
4.
After loading the RAID driver from diskette, follow the normal procedure
to finish the installation.
Chipset Driver Installation
1.
After the installation completes, you would see the following devices
with yellow mark in Device Manager.