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7.1 RAID driver installation After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to install an operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable array. This part provides the instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS installation. 7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk The system does not include a floppy drive. You have to use a USB floppy drive when creating a SATA RAID driver disk. If you have created RAID sets with the LSI Software RAID configuration utility, the boot priority of the SATA optical disk drive has to be manually adjusted. Otherwise, the system will not boot from the connected SATA ODD. A floppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows® or Red Hat® Enterprise operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set. You can create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using the Makedisk application in the support DVD). To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment: 1. Place the motherboard support DVD in the optical drive. 2. Restart the computer. 3. Enter the BIOS Setup. 4. Select the optical drive as the first boot priority to boot from the support DVD. Save your changes. 5. Exit the BIOS Setup and restart the computer. The following Makedisk menu appears. 6. Select the C22x INTEL RAID Driver and press to go to the sub-menu. Create Driver Diskette Menu C22x INTEL RAID Driver Write DMI FreeDOS command prompt 7. From the Makedisk sub-menu, use the Up or Down arrow keys to select the driver and press to create the RAID driver disk. C22x INTEL RAID Driver C22x INTEL RAID Driver Windows 32 bit(also support AHCI) Windows 64 bit(also support AHCI) Back Exit 7-2 Chapter 7: Driver installation

Section	Page
1.7 LED information	20
1.7.1 Front panel LEDs	20
1.7.2 Rear panel LEDs	21
Chapter 2: Hardware setup	23
2.1 Chassis cover	24
2.1.1 Removing the side cover	24
2.1.2 Reinstalling the side cover	25
2.2 Central Processing Unit (CPU)	26
2.2.1 Installing the CPU	26
2.3.2 Installing the CPU heatsink	29
2.2.3 Uninstalling the CPU heatsink and fan	30
2.3 System memory	31
2.3.1 Overview	31
2.3.2 Memory Configurations	31
2.3.3 Installing a DIMM on a single clip DIMM socket	32
2.4 Front panel assembly	33
2.4.1 Removing the front panel assembly	33
2.4.2 Reinstalling the front panel assembly	33
2.5 5.25-inch drives	34
2.6 SATA/SAS hard disk drives	35
2.6.1 Installing the HDD module cage	35
2.6.2 (Optional) Installing the second HDD module cage	37
2.6.3 Removing the HDD module cage	39
2.6.4 Installing a hot-swap SATA/SAS hard disk drive	39
2.6.5 Removing and reinstalling the backplane	41
2.7 Expansion cards	42
2.7.1 Installing an expansion card	42
2.7.2 Installing ASUS PIKE RAID card	44
2.7.3 Installing ASMB7 management board	45
2.7.4 Configuring an expansion card	46
2.8 Cable connections	47
2.8.1 Motherboard connections	47
2.8.2 SATA/SAS backplane connections	48
2.9 Removable components	50
2.9.1 System fan	50
2.9.2 Chassis footpads	51
2.9.3 Redundant power supply module	52
Chapter 3: Installation options	53
3.1 Preparing the system for rack mounting	54
3.2 Attaching the inner rail to the server	54
3.3 Attaching the rails to the rack	55
3.4 Mounting the server to the rack	56
Chapter 4: Motherboard Info	57
4.1 Motherboard overview	58
4.1.1 Placement direction	58
4.1.2 Screw holes	58
4.1.3 Motherboard layout	59
4.1.4 Layout contents	60
4.2 Expansion slots	62
4.2.1 PCI Express x16 slot (x16 link)	62
4.2.2 PCI Express x8 slot (x8 link)	62
4.2.3 PCI Express x1 slot (x1 link)	62
4.2.5 PCI slot	62
4.2.6 PIKE slot	63
4.3 Onboard LEDs	64
4.4 Jumpers	67
4.5 Connectors	72
4.5.1 Rear panel connectors	72
4.5.2 Internal connectors	73
Chapter 5: BIOS setup	83
5.1 Managing and updating your BIOS	84
5.1.1 ASUS CrashFree BIOS 3 utility	84
5.1.2 ASUS EzFlash Utility\b	85
5.1.3 BUPDATER utility	86
5.2 BIOS setup program	88
5.2.1 BIOS menu screen	89
5.2.2 Menu bar	89
5.2.3 Menu items	90
5.2.4 Submenu items	90
5.2.5 Navigation keys	90
5.2.6 General help	90
5.2.7 Configuration fields	90
5.2.8 Pop-up window	90
5.2.9 Scroll bar	90
5.3 Main menu	91
5.3.1 System Date	91
5.3.2 System Time	91
5.4 Advanced menu	92
5.4.1 CPU Configuration	93
5.4.2 PCH-IO Configuration	96
5.4.3 SATA Configuration	97
5.4.4 System Agent (SA) Configuration	98
5.4.5 PCI Subsystem Settings	100
5.4.6 USB Configuration	102
5.4.7 TPM	103
5.4.8 ACPI Settings	103
5.4.9 WHEA Support	104
5.4.10 NCT6779D Super IO Configuration	104
5.4.11 Intel Server Platform Services	105
5.4.12 Onboard LAN Configuration	106
5.4.13 MIO Card Configuration	106
5.4.14 Serial Port Console Redirection	107
5.4.15 Runtime Error Logging Support	109
5.4.16 APM	109
5.4.17 Network Stack	110
5.4.18 Intel RC Drivers Version Detail	110
5.5 Event Logs menu	111
5.6 Boot menu	112
5.7 Monitor menu	115
5.8 Security	116
5.9 Tool menu	119
5.10 Exit menu	119
Chapter 6: RAID configuration	121
6.1 Setting up RAID	122
6.1.1 RAID definitions	122
6.1.2 Installing hard disk drives	123
6.1.3 Setting Jumpers	123
6.1.4 Setting the RAID mode in BIOS	123
6.1.5 RAID configuration utilities	123
6.2 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM Utility	124
6.2.1 Creating a RAID set	125
6.2.2 Deleting a RAID set	127
6.2.3 Resetting disks to Non-RAID	128
6.2.4 Exiting the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise SATA Option ROM utility	129
6.2.5 Rebuilding the RAID	129
6.2.6 Setting the Boot array in the BIOS Setup Utility	131
6.3 Intel® Rapid Storage Technology enterprise (Windows)	132
6.3.1 Creating a RAID set	133
6.3.2 Changing a Volume Type	135
6.3.3 Deleting a volume	136
6.3.4 Preferences	137
Chapter 7: Driver installation	139
7.1 RAID driver installation	140
7.1.1 Creating a RAID driver disk	140
7.1.2 Installing the RAID controller driver	142
7.2 Management applications and utilities installation	144
7.3 Running the Support DVD	144
7.4 Installing the LAN driver	152
7.5 Installing the VGA driver	157
7.6 Installing the Intel® C22x MEI NULL HECI driver	160
7.7 Installing the Intel® I210 Gigabit Adapter driver	162

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Chapter 7: Driver installation

7.1

RAID driver installation

After creating the RAID sets for your server system, you are now ready to install an

operating system to the independent hard disk drive or bootable array. This part provides the

instructions on how to install the RAID controller drivers during OS installation.

7.1.1

Creating a RAID driver disk

The system does not include a ﬂoppy drive. You have to use a USB ﬂoppy drive when

creating a SATA RAID driver disk.

If you have created RAID sets with the LSI Software RAID conﬁguration utility, the boot

priority of the SATA optical disk drive has to be manually adjusted. Otherwise, the system

will not boot from the connected SATA ODD.

A ﬂoppy disk with the RAID driver is required when installing Windows

or Red Hat

Enterprise operating system on a hard disk drive that is included in a RAID set. You can

create a RAID driver disk in DOS (using the Makedisk application in the support DVD).

To create a RAID driver disk in DOS environment:

Place the motherboard support DVD in the optical drive.

Restart the computer.

Enter the BIOS Setup.

Select the optical drive as the ﬁrst boot priority to boot from the support DVD. Save

your changes.

Exit the BIOS Setup and restart the computer.

The following Makedisk menu appears.

Select the

C22x INTEL RAID Driver

and press <Enter> to go to the sub-menu.

Create Driver Diskette Menu

C22x INTEL RAID Driver

Write DMI

FreeDOS command prompt

From the Makedisk sub-menu, use the Up or Down arrow keys to select the driver and

press <Enter> to create the RAID driver disk.

C22x INTEL RAID Driver

Windows 32 bit(also support AHCI)

Windows 64 bit(also support AHCI)

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