Installing The Sata Raid/Ahci Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-Z87-DS3H User Manual

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Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System

With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 8/7.
A. Installing Windows 8/7
As Windows 7 already include Intel SATA RAID/AHCI driver, you do not need to install separate RAID/AHCI
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driver during the Windows installation process. After the operating system is installed, we recommend that you
install all required drivers from the motherboard driver disk using "Xpress Install" to ensure system performance
and compatibility. To install Windows 8, refer to the steps below:
Step 1:
Copy the IRST folder under BootDrv in the driver disk to your USB thumb drive.
Step 2:
Boot from the Windows 8 setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen requesting
you to load the driver appears, select Browse.
Step 3:
Insert the USB thumb drive and then browse to the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows:
Windows 32-bit: \iRST\32Bit
Windows 64-bit: \iRST\64Bit
Step 4:
When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset
SATA RAID Controller and click Next to load the driver and continue the OS installation
Figure 1
- 71 - Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s)