A-2: Installation in Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration mode
If the SATA controller has been configured 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
Boot
menu is disabled.
2. Go to
Settings\IO Ports\SATA And RST Configuration
and make sure
USE RST Legacy OROM
is disabled
and
RST Control PCIe Storage Devices
is set to
Manual
. If you want to enable the Optane
™
memory installed
in the M2A_SB connector, set
PCIe Storage Device On Port 9
to
RST Controlled
; to enable the Optane
™
memory installed in the M2M_SB connector, set
PCIe Storage Device On Port 21
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
Enable
. 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 specific folders, files,
or applications to accelerate using the
Intel
®
Optane
™
Memory Pinning
function. (The 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 system to 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 first.
•
After enabling the Optane
™
memory, the related BIOS settings will remain even after a BIOS update.
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