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A-2: Installation in Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration mode
IftheSATAcontrollerhasbeenconguredinIntelRSTPremiumWithIntelOptaneSystemAccelerationmode,
please follow the steps below:
1. After system restarts, go to the BIOS Setup, make sure CSM Support under the BIOS menu is disabled.
2. Go to Peripherals\SATAAndRSTConguration and make sure Use RST Legacy OROM is disabled.
If you want to enable the Optane
memory installed in the M2A connector, set PCIe Storage Device on
Port 9 to RST Controlled; to enable the Optane
memory installed in the M2M connector, set PCIe Storage
Device on Port 17 to RST Controlled.
3. Enter the operating system, launch the Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology utility from the Start menu, and then
enable Intel
®
Optane
Memory on the Intel
®
Optane
Memory screen.
4. If you install more than one Optane
memory, please select which one you are going to use. Then select
which drive to be accelerated. Click Yestocontinue.Followtheon-screeninstructionstoproceed.When
completed, restart the system.
5. Launch the Intel
®
Rapid Storage Technology utility from the Start menu and make sure the Intel
®
Optane
Memoryhasbeenenabled.Ifyouwanttoacceleratethesystemdrive,youcanselectspecicfolders,les,or
applications to accelerate using the Intel
®
Optane
Memory Pinning function. (The Intel
®
Optane
memory
used must have at least 32 GB capacity.)
An Optane
memorycannotbeusedtoaccelerateanM.2PCIeSSD.
If more than one Optane
memory is installed, you can select only one of them to accelerate your
SATA-based boot drive. The other(s) can only be used as data drive(s).
DonotabruptlyremovetheOptane
memory.Doingsowillcausetheoperatingsystemtostop
functioning correctly.
If you want to change/remove the Optane
memory, you must disable it using the Intel
®
Rapid
Storage Technology or Intel(R) Optane
Memoryapplicationrst.
After enabling the Optane
memory, the related BIOS settings will remain even after a BIOS update.
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