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Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Installation
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6 Intel® Matrix Storage Manager
Installation
6.1 Overview
After installing an operating system onto a RAID volume or on a Serial ATA hard drive
when in RAID or AHCI mode, the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager can be loaded from
within Windows. This installs the user interface (i.e. Intel® Matrix Storage Console),
the tray icon service, and the monitor service onto the system, allowing you to
monitor the health of your RAID volume and/or hard drives.
This method can also be used to upgrade to a newer version of the Intel® Matrix
Storage Manager.
Warning: The Intel® Matrix Storage Manager driver may be used to operate the hard drive from
which the the system is booting or a hard drive that contains important data. For this reason,
you cannot remove or un-install this driver from the system; however, you will have the
ability to un-install all other non-driver components.
The following non-driver components can be un-installed:
• Intel® Matrix Storage Console
• Help documentation
• Start Menu shortcuts
• System tray icon service
• RAID monitor service
6.2 Where to Obtain Software
If a CD-ROM was included with your motherboard or system, it should include the
Intel® Matrix Storage Manager.
The Intel® Matrix Storage Manager can be downloaded from the following Intel
website: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-
df/Product_Filter.asp?ProductID=2101
6.3 Installation Steps
Note: The instructions below assume that the BIOS has been configured correctly and the
RAID driver has been installed using the F6 installation method (if applicable).