For Vista 32 bit version http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf400_winVista_15.01G.html For Vista 64 bit version http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_nf400_winVista64_15.01G.html

Currently only P4M900 chipset motherboard's on-board VGA will support Vista Basic version. Other VIA on-board VGA will not be able to support Vista. You will need to install an AGP or PCI-E VGA card support DirectX 9 to support Vista's basic function. If need to support Vista Aero in Premium version, it requires DirectX 9, Pixel Shader 2.0, and 128 MB VGA card memory to support Aero function.

This is because of Windows SID protection. Windows will fail to boot and lock system due to the hardware ID changed. You will need to re-install the Windows XP after major componts upgrade, such like motherboard upgrade. Please back up all your important data with old motherboard and devices before install the OS again.

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.

The chipset drvier for Nvidia chipset motherboard already contain the LAN driver. So there is no extra driver needed for on-board LAN.

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.

Please ensure your graphic card can support 3Dmark2001Benchmark. Based on Madionin given information, some of the graphic card's 3D Accelerators are too old to run the 3DMark2001. In order to run the 3DMark2001 smoothly, the system needs,

1. System Memory Min. Request for 128MB or above. (Unshared system RAM 128MB)
2. Video memory 16MB or above.
3. Direct X 8.0a or above.

Microsoft had announced that Windows Millennium Operating System unable to detect some of joystick which Is designed on Digital Mode. To prevent seeing this problem, please visit Microsoft website In order to download the utility (SideWinder Game Controller Software 3.02) that can help your system to relocate the digital joystick.
http://www.microsoft.com/products/hardware/sidewinder/ downloads/302.htm

Fdisk uses some 16-bit values internally to calculate the size of the drive. Some of these variables overflow when the driver size is equal to or larger than 64GB.Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Microsoft products that includes Win95, Win98.