ASRock Z77 OC Formula manual Driver Installation Guide, Set up Uefi

2.21 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.

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

If you want to install Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS on your SATA / SATA2 / SATA3 HDDs with RAID functions, please follow the steps below.

RAID mode is not supported under Windows® XP / XP 64-bit.

STEP 1: Set up UEFI.

A. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY Advanced screen Storage Configuration. B. Set the option “SATA Mode Selection” to [RAID] for SATA2_2 to SATA2_5 and

SATA3_0 and SATA3_1 ports.

Set the option “Marvell SATA3 M0 M1 Operation Mode” to [RAID] for SATA3_M0 and SATA3_M1 ports.

Set the option “Marvell SATA3 M2 M3 Operation Mode” to [RAID] for SATA3_M2 and SATA3_M3 ports.

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

Before you start to configure the RAID function, you need to check the installation guide in the Support CD for proper configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration”, which is located in the folder at the following path:

.. \ RAID Installation Guide

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

After the installation of Windows® 7 / 7 64-bit / VistaTM / VistaTM 64-bit OS, if you want to manage RAID functions, you are allowed to use both “RAID Installation Guide” and “Intel Rapid Storage Information” for RAID configuration. Please refer to the document in the Support CD, “Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Configuration”, which is lo- cated in the folder at the following path: .. \ RAID Installation Guide and the document in the support CD, “Guide to Intel Rapid Storage”, which is located in the folder at the follow- ing path: .. \ Intel Rapid Storage Information

If you want to use “Intel Rapid Storage” in Windows® environment, install “SATAII driver” from the Support CD again so that “Intel Rapid Storage” will be installed to your system as well.

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