ASRock FM2A55M-VG3 manual Driver Installation Guide, Set up Uefi

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2.12 Driver Installation Guide

To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical drive first. Then, the drivers compatible to your system can be auto-detected and listed on the support CD driver page. Please follow the order from up to bottom side to install those required drivers. Therefore, the drivers you install can work properly.

2.13 Installing Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit With RAID Functions

If you want to install Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit on a RAID disk composed of 2 or more SATA2 HDDs with RAID functions, please follow below steps.

STEP 1: Set up UEFI.

A.Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITYAdvanced screen Storage Configuration.

B.Set the “SATA Mode” option to [RAID].

STEP 2: Use “RAID Installation Guide” to set RAID configuration.

Before you start to configure RAID function, you need to check the RAID installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the BIOS RAID installation guide part of the document in the following path in the Support CD:

.. \ RAID Installation Guide

STEP 3: Install Windows® 8 / 8 64-bit / 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your system.

Use the option “Easy RAID Installer“ in UEFI setup utility to copy the RAID drivers to your USB flash disk. Insert the Windows® OS optical disk into the optical drive to boot your system, and follow the instruction to install OS on your system. When you see “Where do you want to install Windows?” page, please insert your USB flash disk to your system, and click the “Load Driver” button to load the RAID drivers. After that, you can continue the OS installation.

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