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A-2: Installation in Intel RST Premium With Intel Optane System Acceleration mode
If the SATA controller has been congured 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\IOPorts\SATAAndRSTConguration 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_CPU 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 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 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 specic folders, les,
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 rst.
• After enabling the Optane
™
memory, the related BIOS settings will remain even after a BIOS update.
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