Installing The Sata Raid/Ahci Driver And Operating System - Gigabyte GA-F2A88X-UP4 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 the operating system.
A. Installing Windows 8/7
(The following instructions use Windows 8 as the example operating system.)
Step 1:
You need to install the SATA RAID/AHCI driver during the OS installation. Use an alternative system to copy
the SATA RAID/AHCI driver from the motherboard driver disk to a USB flash drive. Copy the Hw8_A88 folder
under BootDrv in the driver disk.
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:
Then browse to the USB flash drive and select the location of the driver. The locations of the drivers are as follows:
RAID driver for Windows 8 32-bit: Hw8_A88\RAID\x86
RAID driver for Windows 8 64-bit: Hw8_A88\RAID\x64
AHCI driver for Windows 8 32-bit: Hw8_A88\AHCI\W8
AHCI driver for Windows 8 64-bit: Hw8_A88\AHCI\W864A
For Windows 7, browse to the Hw7_A88 folder.
Step 4:
When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select AMD-RAID Controller and click Next to load the driver
and continue the OS installation.
Figure 1
Configuring SATA Hard Drive(s) - 64 -