Ultra 100 IDE card Windows 2000 Drivers Installation Instructions
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A. Although ATAPI devices (e.g. CD-ROM, LS-120) can be detected by the IDE BIOS
on booting up, they will not work until the driver is loaded.
B. The ATAPI device connected to Ultra 100 IDE card may not be used as a boot drive.
C. To save time, install the Windows 2000 with the hard drives and CD-ROM drives
connected to the on-board IDE ports first. Then follow step 10 of section I) below.
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Table of Contents
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I) Windows 2000 Fresh Installation Instructions.
II) Install Windows 2000 on Windows NT4.
III) Upgrade Windows 2000.
I) Windows 2000 Fresh Installation Instructions.
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Follow these instructions in this section if you are freshly installing
Windows 2000.
You may start up Windows 2000 installation from CD. If your CD-ROM drive is
not bootable, your can start up with floppy diskettes.
1. If you choose to install Windows 2000 from floppies, create four
Windows 2000 setup floppy diskettes from CD before installation.
2. Power off the system and connect hard drives to the Ultra 100 IDE card.
Install it to a PCI slot.
3. Put the diskette #1 into drive A or put the CD into CD-ROM drive if you
choose to boot up from CD.
4. Turn on your computer system. Press 'F1' or 'F11' key in responding to the
prompt in yellow characters when IDE BIOS is scanning devices.
5. Continue to insert floppy diskette #2, #3, #4 if you are installing
from floppy diskettes.
6. Wait while files are copied from floppy or CD in the text mode installation.
Caution: Do not press F6 for third party SCSI or RAID driver installation
during this time. Ultra 100 IDE card does not use SCSI or RAID
driver under Windows 2000.
7. Follow setup instructions to select your choices for partitions and file system.
8. After setup examines your disks, it would copy files to Windows 2000
installation folders and restart the system.
Again, Press 'F1' or 'F11' key when IDE BIOS is scanning devices.
The setup program would continue to finish installation after restart.
9. Wait until Windows 2000 finishes installing devices, regional settings,
networking settings, components, and final set of tasks, reboot the system.
10. Go to device manager and install Ultra 100 IDE card driver for Windows 2000 by
the following steps
a. Right click on my computer icon, select properties, left click on 'Hardware'
tab, and then on 'Device Manager' button.
b. Double click on 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers', then on 'Standard Dual Channel
PCI IDE controller', left click on 'Driver' tab, then on 'Update Driver'
button to bring up 'Upgrade Device Driver Wizard.'
c. Select 'search for a suitable driver for my device' and click 'next' when
install hardware drivers.
Insert the floppy diskette with Ultra 100 IDE card driver.
Select 'floppy disk drive' and click 'next' when locate driver files.
At search results, the Driver Wizard either found the a:\win2k\cmdide.inf
at the first time the driver is installed or found the c:\winnt\inf\oem0.inf
if the cmdide.inf has been installed to the hard disk before.
Continue to install and ignore the 'Digital signature not found' message.
Click 'OK' to copy driver file from a:\win2k
You must restart the computer for the driver to take effect.
Notes: Make sure the transfer mode settings is "DMA if available" in the IDE
channel properties under device manager to get maximal performance.
II) Install Windows 2000 on Windows NT4.0
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Follow these instructions in this section if you are upgrading from NT4 to
Windows 2000.
1. Boot up your system to the Windows NT 4.0 desktop.
2. Insert Windows 2000 CD to the CD-ROM drive.
3. Double click the SETUP icon in the CD root directory.
4. Double click "install Windows 2000" and select "upgrade to Windows 2000",
then follow the instructions prompted by the setup program to upgrade
Windows 2000.
5. After the setup program copies installation files to disk, the system
would restart.
6. Press 'F1' or 'F11' key when IDE controller BIOS is scanning devices.
7. Wait while files are copied from CD in the text mode installation.
Caution: Do not press F6 for third party SCSI or RAID driver installation
during this time. Ultra 100 IDE card does not use SCSI or RAID
driver under Windows 2000.
8. Follow step 8,9,10 of section I) to finish upgrading and driver installation.
Notes: a. Do not forget to press 'F1' or 'F11' key in step 8 of section I).
b. install IDE driver for Windows 2000 following instructions in
step 10 of section I).
III) Upgrade Windows 2000.
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Follow these instructions in this section if you are installing newer version
of Windows 2000 to your current Windows 2000.
1. Boot up your system to the Windows 2000 desktop.
2. Insert the newer version of Windows 2000 CD to the CD-ROM drive.
3. Double click the SETUP icon in the CD root directory.
4. Click "install Windows 2000" and select "upgrade to Windows 2000",
then follow the instructions prompted by the setup program to upgrade
Windows 2000.
5. After the setup program copies installation files to disk, the system
would restart.
6. Press 'F1' or 'F11' key when IDE BIOS is scanning devices.
7. Wait while files are copied from CD in the text mode installation.
Caution: Do not press F6 for third party SCSI or RAID driver installation
during this time. Ultra 100 IDE card does not use SCSI or RAID
driver under Windows 2000.
8. After setup examines your disks, it would copy files to Windows 2000
installation folders and restart the system.
Again, Press 'F1' or 'F11' key when IDE BIOS is scanning devices.
The setup program would continue to finish installation after restart.
9. Wait until Windows 2000 finishes installing devices, regional settings,
networking settings, components, and final set of tasks, reboot the system.
Notes: No need to re-install the driver again unless it did not exist
before the upgrade.
Download Driver Pack
After your driver has been downloaded, follow these simple steps to install it.
Expand the archive file (if the download file is in zip or rar format).
If the expanded file has an .exe extension, double click it and follow the installation instructions.
Otherwise, open Device Manager by right-clicking the Start menu and selecting Device Manager.
Find the device and model you want to update in the device list.
Double-click on it to open the Properties dialog box.
From the Properties dialog box, select the Driver tab.
Click the Update Driver button, then follow the instructions.
Very important: You must reboot your system to ensure that any driver updates have taken effect.
For more help, visit our Driver Support section for step-by-step videos on how to install drivers for every file type.