Gigabyte B450 AORUS M (rev. 1.0) [39/44] Installing the raid ahci driver and operating system

C-2.ConguringLegacyRAIDROM

EnterthelegacyRAIDBIOSsetuputilitytocongureaRAIDarray.Skipthisstepandproceedwiththeinstallation

ofWindowsoperatingsystemforanon-RAIDconguration.

Steps:

1. After the POST memory test begins and before the operating system boot begins, look for a message which

says"Press<Ctrl-F>toenterRAIDOptionROMUtility".Press<Ctrl>+<R>toentertheRAIDBIOSsetuputility.

2. Tocreateanewarray,press<Enter>ontheCreateArrayoption.

3. The selection bar will move to the Disks section on the right of the screen. Select the hard drives to be

includedintheRAIDarray.Usetheupordownarrowkeytoselectaharddriveandpress<Insert>.The

selectedharddrivewillbeshowningreen.Tousealloftheharddrives,simplypress<A>toselectall.Then

press<Enter>andtheselectionbarwillmovetotheUser Input section on the left bottom of the screen.

4. First,selectaRAIDmodeandpress<Enter>.Theselectionsavailabledependonthenumberoftheharddrives

beinginstalled.Thenfollowtheon-screeninstructionstospecifythearraysize.YoucanselectAll available

spacetousethemaximumsizeallowedorusetheupordownarrowkeytoadjustthesizeandpress<Enter>.

5. Selectacachingmode.OptionsincludeRead/Write,ReadOnly,andNone.Thenpress<Enter>toproceed.

6. Finally,amessagewhichsays"ConrmCreationofArray"willappear.Press<C>toconrmor<Esc>to

return to the previous screen.

7. Whencompleted,youwillseethenewarrayonthemainscreen.ToexittheRAIDBIOSutility,press<Esc>

andthenpress<C>toconrm.

Installing the RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System

WiththecorrectBIOSsettings,youarereadytoinstalltheoperatingsystem.

Installing the Operating System

AssomeoperatingsystemsalreadyincludeRAID/AHCIdriver,youdonotneedtoinstallseparateRAID/AHCI

driverduringtheWindowsinstallationprocess.Aftertheoperatingsystemisinstalled,werecommendthatyou

install all required drivers from the motherboard driver disk using "Xpress Install" to ensure system performance

andcompatibility.IftheoperatingsystemtobeinstalledrequiresthatyouprovideadditionalRAID/AHCIdriver

during the OS installation process, please refer to the steps below:

1. Copy the Hw10 folder under the \Boot folder in the driver disk to your USB thumb drive.

2. BootfromtheWindowssetupdiskandperformstandardOSinstallationsteps.Whenthescreenrequesting

you to load the driver appears, select Browse.

3. Insert the USB thumb drive and then browse to the location of the driver. The location of the drivers is as

follows:

\Hw10\RAID\x64

4. Select AMD-RAID Bottom DevicerstandclickNext to load the driver. Then select AMD-RAID Controller

and click Next to load the driver. Finally, continue the OS installation.

PleasevisitGIGABYTE'swebsitefordetailsonconguringaRAIDarray.

6. After completing, you'll be brought back to the Array Management screen. Under Manage Array Properties

youcanseethenewRAIDvolumeandinformationonRAIDlevel,arrayname,arraycapacity,etc.

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