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HighPoint NVMe RAID Controller
SSD7103
Windows
Installation Guide
Version 1.00
Copyright © 2019 HighPoint Technologies, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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1 Overview
The purpose of this document is to provide clear instructions on how to install and use
SSD7103 RAID Controller on Windows system.
2 Installing Windows on SSD7103 RAID Controller
If you would like to install Windows onto drives attached to SSD7103 RAID Controller, please
perform the following operations:
Step 1 Prepare Your Hardware for Installation
After you attach your NVMe SSD to SSD7103 controller, you can use SSD7103 UEFI Utility to
configure your NVMe SSD as RAID arrays, or just use them as single disks.
Before installation, you must remove all the disk drives, which are not physically attached to
SSD7103 RAID controller, from your system.
Note
SSD7103 only support UEFI boot .If you have other SCSI adapters installed, you must make sure
the SSD7103 controller UEFI will be loaded firstly. If not, try to move it to another PCI slot.
Otherwise you may be unable to boot up your system.
Step 2 Check System UEFI Settings
1. Set UEFI setting with SuperMicro X11DAi-N motherboard as an example.
a. Set "Boot Mode Select" to "UEFI";
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b. And "Advanced->PCIe/PCI/PnP Configuration->CPU Slot PCI-E OPROM" to "EFI".Suppose
SSD7103 is connected to motherboard CPU1 Slot 1 PCI-E X16,then you should set "CPU1
Slot 1 PCI-E X16 OPROM" to "EFI";
c. Disable "Secure Boot", set "Attempt Secure Boot" to "Disabled".
2. Set UEFI setting with ASUS PRIME X299 -DELUXE motherboard as an example
a. Set "Boot from Storage Devices" to "UEFI driver first";
b. And "Boot Device Control" to "UEFI Only" or "UEFI and Legacy OPROM";
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c. Set "OS Type" to "Other OS".
Step 3 Flash UEFI Rom to SSD7103
a. Unzip SSD7103 UEFI package to root dir(/) of a USB flash driver, and insert the USB flash
drive to the motherboard;
b. Booting from the UEFI USB flash and enter the UEFI environment ;
c. Command with “SSD7103.nsh”, flash UEFI rom to SSD7103 Controller and reboot.
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Step 4 Create Array
a. Attach three NVMe SSD to SSD7103 Controller ;
Note
Make sure your USB flash partition format is NTFS or FAT32.
b. Boot, in the presence of the motherboard Log screen, there will be NVMe SSD
information：
c. Enter the motherboard’s Boot List and select start from UEFI USB flash:
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d. Command ”mode”, ”mode 160 53” to change the resolution:
e. Command ”ArrayCreate.efi” to enter the Utility:
f. Command ”create RAID0 ”.
Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.
g. Command “exit”；
h. For more command usages, refer to Appendix A.
Step 5 Install Windows
a. Put the Windows install DVD in your CD-ROM and then reboot your system;
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b. Boot, view RAID information that appears on the motherboard Logo screen:
c. Enter Boot list, select start from UEFI DVD:
d. Install Windows, to “Where do you want to install Windows?”, you can see three Legacy
disk:
e. Click “Load driver”，in the pup-up window, click “Cancel”:
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f. Then plug the USB flash with the driver file onto the USB interface of the motherboard, click
“Browse”, select the driver file:
g. After load the driver, back to “Where do you want to install Windows?” interface, the Legacy
disks have become RAID partitions.
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h. After partitioning, continue installing and complete the installation of the Windows.
i. After the Windows is installed,please get into Windows and turn off Hibernation.
Hibernation fails when the system is installed on a NVMe RAID, this bug will affet fast
startup and sleep.
If you do not turn hibernate functionality off, you may cause the following problems：
a) The shutdown time is extended, it takes 3-5 minutes.
b) Can not shut down properly, you need to manually press the switch button of the
motherboard to close
Please use administrator privileges to turn off hibernation with the following command in
cmd:
#powercfg /h off
Please use administrator privileges to confirm the status with the following command in
cmd:
#powercfg /a
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Appendix A
Support command: help/info/quit/exit/create/delete.
Create Command
Syntax
Create Array Type (RAID0/RAID1/RAID10) Member Disk list
(1/1,1/2|*)Capacity(100|*)
Examples
<<< create RAID0
<<< create RAID0 *
<<< create RAID0 * *
Create RAID0 array with all disks and with maximum capacity.
<<< create RAID1 1/1, 1/3 10
Create RAID1 array with disk 1/1 and 1/3 and with 10GB capacity.
<<< create RAID10
Delete Command
Syntax
delete {array ID}
Examples
<<< delete 1
Delete the first array from Logical device list.
<<< delete 2
Delete the second array from Logical device list.
Info Command
Syntax
info
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