Installing The Sata Raid/Ahci Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-X79-UD5 User Manual

5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System

With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install the operating system.
A. Installing Windows 7/Vista
(The following instructions use Windows 7 as the example operating system.)
Step 1:
Boot from the Windows 7/Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When you arrive at the
"Where do you want to install Windows?" screen, select Load Driver.
Step 2:
Insert the motherboard driver disk and then browse to the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers
are as follows:
For the Intel X79:
RAID/AHCI driver for Windows 32-Bit:\BootDrv\iRST\32Bit
RAID/AHCI driver for Windows 64-Bit:\BootDrv\iRST\64Bit
For the Marvell 88SE9172:
RAID driver for Windows 32-bit: \BootDrv\Marvell\RAID\i386
RAID driver for Windows 64-bit: \BootDrv\Marvell\RAID\amd64
AHCI driver for Windows 32-bit: \BootDrv\Marvell\AHCI\Floppy32
AHCI driver for Windows 64-bit: \BootDrv\Marvell\AHCI\Floppy64
Step 3:
For Intel X79, select Intel(R) C600 Series Chipset SATA RAID Controller (Figure 1). For Marvell 88SE9172,
select Marvell 91xx SATA 6G RAID Controller (Figure 2). Click Next to load the driver and continue the OS
installation.
Figure 1 Figure 2
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