Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware For Installation - HighPoint SSD7103 Installation Manual

SSD7103 Controller Windows Installation Guide
1 Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use
SSD7103 RAID Controller on Windows system.
2 Installing Windows on SSD7103 RAID Controller
If you would like to install Windows onto drives attached to SSD7103 RAID Controller, please
perform the following operations:

Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation

After you attach your NVMe SSD to SSD7103 controller, you can use SSD7103 UEFI Utility to
configure your NVMe SSD as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.
Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives, which are not physically attached to
SSD7103 RAID controller, from your system.
Note
SSD7103 only support UEFI boot .
the SSD7103 controller UEFI will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot.
Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
Step 2 Check System UEFI Settings
1. Set UEFI setting with SuperMicro X11DAi-N motherboard as an example.
a. Set "Boot Mode Select" to "UEFI";
If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure
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