Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 - 5-1-3 Installing SATA RAID;AHCI Driver and OS

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5-1-3 Installing the SATA RAID/AHCI Driver and Operating System
With the correct BIOS settings, you are ready to install Windows 7/Vista/XP.
A. Installing Windows 7/Vista
(ThefollowinginstructionsuseWindows7astheexampleoperatingsystem.)
Step 2:
Boot from the Windows 7/Vista setup disk and perform standard OS installation steps. When the screen re-
questing you to load the driver appears, select Browse.
Step 3:
ThenbrowsetotheUSBashdriveandselectthelocationofthedriver.Thelocationsofthedriversareas
follows:
RAID driver for Windows 7 32-bit: Hw7\RAID\x86
RAID driver for Windows 7 64-bit: Hw7\RAID\x64
AHCI driver for Windows 7 32-bit: Hw7\AHCI\W7
AHCI driver for Windows 7 64-bit: Hw7\AHCI\W764A
Step 4:
When a screen as shown in Figure 1 appears, select AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller and click
Next to load the driver and continue the OS installation.
For the AMD SB950:
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ashdrive.CopytheHw7 folder un-
der BootDrv in the driver disk.