Driver Installation Guide; Installing Windows; 64-Bit / Vista; Tm Tm - ASROCK X79 Extreme3 User Manual

2.20 Driver Installation Guide

To install the drivers to your system, please insert the support CD to your optical
drive fi rst. 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.

2.21 Installing Windows

RAID Functions
RAID mode is not supported under Windows
If you want to install Windows
SATA2 / SATA3 ports with RAID functions, please follow the steps below.
STEP 1: Set up UEFI.
A. Enter UEFI SETUP UTILITY
B. Set the option "SATA Mode" to [RAID] for Intel
Set the option "ASMedia SATA3 Bootable" to [Yes] for ASMedia SATA3 ports.
STEP 2: Use "RAID Installation Guide" to set RAID confi guration.
Before you start to confi gure the RAID function, you need to check the installation
guide in the Support CD for proper confi guration. Please refer to the document in
the Support CD, "Guide to SATA Hard Disks Installation and RAID Confi guration",
which is located in the folder at the following path:
.. \ RAID Installation Guide
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STEP 3: Install Windows
system. The optical drive should be installed on an non Intel
/ SATA3 port (SATA3_A0).
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Insert the Windows

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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 our
Support CD to your system, and click the "Load Driver" button to load Intel
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drivers. Intel RAID drivers are located in the following path of our Support CD:
32 bit: ..\i386\Win7_Vista_Intel_v3.0.0.1112
64-bit: ..\AMD64\Win7-64_Vista64_Intel_v3.0.0.1112
After that, please insert Windows
into the optical drive again to continue the OS installation.
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