Gigabyte H370M D3H GSM (rev. 1.0) [42/48] 2 installing an intel optane memory

3-2 Installing an Intel

Optane

™

Memory

System Requirements

1. Intel

Optane

™

memory

2. The Optane

™

memory must have at least 16 GB capacity, and it must have equal or smaller capacity than

the hard drive/SSD to be accelerated.

3. The Optane

™

memorycannotbeusedtoaccelerateanexistingRAIDarray;theacceleratedharddrive/SSD

cannotbeincludedinaRAIDarray.

4. The hard drive/SSD to be accelerated must be a SATA hard drive or M.2 SATA SSD and must have Windows

10 64-bit (or later version) installed on it. (Must be formatted for GPT partition.)

5. The motherboard driver disk

Installation Guidelines

A-1: Installation in AHCI mode

IftheSATAcontrollerhasbeenconguredinAHCImode,pleasefollowthestepsbelow:

1. After entering the operating system, insert the motherboard driver disk into your optical drive. On the Xpress

Install screen, select Intel(R) Optane(TM) Memory System Acceleration

(Note)

to install. Follow the on-screen

instructions to continue. The system will auto-restart.

2. After re-entering the operating system, the dialog box as shown above will appear. Click Yes to continue the

installation and then restart the system.

3. LaunchtheIntel(R)OptaneMemoryapplicationfromtheStartmenu.AmessagewhichsaysIntel

Optane

™

Memory is disabled will appear on the main screen. Click Enable to activate the Intel

Optane

™

Memory

and restart the system again.

4. LaunchtheIntel(R)OptaneMemoryapplicationfromthe Start menu and make sure theIntel

Optane

™

Memoryhasbeenenabled.(TheSATAcontrollermodeischangedtoIntelRSTPremiumWithIntelOptane

SystemAccelerationfromAHCImode.DONOTchangeyourSATAcontrollermodebacktoAHCI.Doingso

will prevent Intel

Optane

™

memory from functioning properly.)

(Note) IfthesystemalreadyhasIntel

RapidStorageTechnologyutilityinstalled,youhavetoremoveitrst

beforeinstallingtheIntel(R)Optane(TM)MemorySystemAccelerationapplication.

Installing the SATA 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 Intel

SATA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 SATA

RAID/AHCIdriverduringtheOSinstallationprocess,pleaserefertothestepsbelow:

1. Copy the IRST folder under \Boot 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 driver is as

follows:

Windows64-bit:\iRST\f6py-x64

4. When a screen as shown, select Intel Chipset SATA RAID Controller and click Next to load the driver and

continue the OS installation.

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