Hi Everyone,
I am trying to enable Intel’s Smart Response Technology on a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-D3H and am running into snags with the EZ Setup Utility provided on the DVD that came with the motherboard.
I read through the User’s Manual and followed the instructions. From what I read all criterion are met for this system:
-An Intel Chipset-based motherboard supporting this feature (GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-D3H)
-An Intel Core series processor (Intel Core i5-2500K Unlocked Sandy Bridge)
-RAID enabled for the Intel SATA controllers in the BIOS Setup
-A conventional SATA disk and an SSD
-64GB KINGSTON SMS 100S mSATA SSD is designated to be the caching hard drive on this system, which is twice the size of the total system memory (32GB DDR3 @ 1866, which is half the size of the caching SSD hard drive).
-256GB ADATA SX900 SSD is designated as the OS and PROGRAMS hard drive on this system, this SSD is devoted only to the OS and PROGRAMS, so if partitions on the mSATA SSD are necessary they can be created (to enable Intel Rapid Start Technology).
-3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM HDD, also available to be used on this system, if needed.
-Windows 7 with SP1
Then the User's Manual says to:
-Select EZ Smart Response and click Setup
-A screen should pop up that has three (3) blue lights, they look like a traffic light, and the first one says “EZ Smart Response.”
-Clicking on that should kick off the process, a prompt should indicate that the system will be forced into RAID mode, select Yes, and the system should restart.
-After the system restarts, it will install the Intel Raid Storage Technology driver automatically. The system will restart again after the driver installation.
The Problem:
-When in EZ Setup Utility the “EZ Smart Response” button is greyed out, cannot click on it.
-I followed their instructions in the manual and I even searched GIGABYTE’s Official YouTube tutorials that show users how “easy” the process is with EZ Setup Utility, I followed their instructions in the tutorials, but I can’t seem to set it working.
Does anyone have any insights? Am I missing a step? Is there a workaround, where I do not need to use the EZ Setup Utility and can still enable Intel Smart Response? If so, can anyone provide instructions for how to do this?
Help!
-Justin
I am trying to enable Intel’s Smart Response Technology on a GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-D3H and am running into snags with the EZ Setup Utility provided on the DVD that came with the motherboard.
I read through the User’s Manual and followed the instructions. From what I read all criterion are met for this system:
-An Intel Chipset-based motherboard supporting this feature (GIGABYTE GA-Z77X-D3H)
-An Intel Core series processor (Intel Core i5-2500K Unlocked Sandy Bridge)
-RAID enabled for the Intel SATA controllers in the BIOS Setup
-A conventional SATA disk and an SSD
-64GB KINGSTON SMS 100S mSATA SSD is designated to be the caching hard drive on this system, which is twice the size of the total system memory (32GB DDR3 @ 1866, which is half the size of the caching SSD hard drive).
-256GB ADATA SX900 SSD is designated as the OS and PROGRAMS hard drive on this system, this SSD is devoted only to the OS and PROGRAMS, so if partitions on the mSATA SSD are necessary they can be created (to enable Intel Rapid Start Technology).
-3TB Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM HDD, also available to be used on this system, if needed.
-Windows 7 with SP1
Then the User's Manual says to:
-Select EZ Smart Response and click Setup
-A screen should pop up that has three (3) blue lights, they look like a traffic light, and the first one says “EZ Smart Response.”
-Clicking on that should kick off the process, a prompt should indicate that the system will be forced into RAID mode, select Yes, and the system should restart.
-After the system restarts, it will install the Intel Raid Storage Technology driver automatically. The system will restart again after the driver installation.
The Problem:
-When in EZ Setup Utility the “EZ Smart Response” button is greyed out, cannot click on it.
-I followed their instructions in the manual and I even searched GIGABYTE’s Official YouTube tutorials that show users how “easy” the process is with EZ Setup Utility, I followed their instructions in the tutorials, but I can’t seem to set it working.
Does anyone have any insights? Am I missing a step? Is there a workaround, where I do not need to use the EZ Setup Utility and can still enable Intel Smart Response? If so, can anyone provide instructions for how to do this?
Help!
-Justin