Promise Technology EX8654, EX8658, EX8650, EX4650 Existing System, Confirming Driver Installation

Chapter 3: Installing Drivers

Existing System

After installing the SuperTrak EX Series RAID Controller card and rebooting your system, Windows Server 2008 setup will show a “Found New Hardware” dialog box.

1.Choose the Locate and install driver software option and click the Next button.

The “Found New Hardware – RAID Controller” dialog box displays the message: “Allow Windows to search online for driver software for your RAID Controller?”

2.Choose the Don’t search online option.

The “Found New Hardware – RAID Controller” dialog box displays the message: “Insert the disc that came with your RAID Controller.”

3.Insert the driver diskette into the floppy drive and click the Next button.

Windows loads the driver and displays the “Found New Hardware” dialog box with message: “Windows has finished installing the driver software for this device Promise SuperTrak EX [4650, 8650, 8654, 8658, 16650] (tm)

Controller.”

4.Click the Close button to finish driver installation.

Confirming Driver Installation

1.Right-click the My Computer icon and choose Manage from the popup menu.

2.From the left panel, choose Device Manager.

3.Click the + in front of Storage controllers. “Promise SuperTrak EX [4650, 8650, 8654, 8658, 16650] (tm) Controller” and “Promise Raid Console” should appear.

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