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In my experiencemy experience, Intel Smart Response Technology is very sensitive to the exact order in which you do things.

First of all, remember that SRT can only cache a Windows boot drive, so you can't have an SSD Boot drive and then SRT cache another drive in your system.

Even then, you have set your ICH SATA ports into RAID mode in the BIOS. Then you have to install Windows 7, then install the intel drivers, then SRT. Then and only then can you add the SSD.

At this point, if you are lucky, you will see a new "Accelerate" tab on RST application and you can set up SSD caching. If you add it at any time before the other steps have been completed, SRT can get confused and and the Accelerate tab stays hidden.

If not then you may have to start the whole process from scratch to try and get it to work.

I have not seen anyone be able to detail a procedure that would allow me to take an OS installed on an AHCI or IDE mode drive and convert it into a RAID mode drive that boots and enables the SRT Accelerate tab, even the guide that daviddavid successfully followed didn't work for me. I spent ages looking for one, and trying various things myself and in the end came to the conclusion that the only way to get SRT SSD Caching to work was to follow the motherboard manual instructions to the letter.

I'm glad that david managed to get it to work, and I hope that you manage to too, if not and you have to re-install from scratch, follow the instructions precisely and you should be able to get it to work.

In my experience, Intel Smart Response Technology is very sensitive to the exact order in which you do things.

First of all, remember that SRT can only cache a Windows boot drive, so you can't have an SSD Boot drive and then SRT cache another drive in your system.

Even then, you have set your ICH SATA ports into RAID mode in the BIOS. Then you have to install Windows 7, then install the intel drivers, then SRT. Then and only then can you add the SSD.

At this point, if you are lucky, you will see a new "Accelerate" tab on RST application and you can set up SSD caching. If you add it at any time before the other steps have been completed, SRT can get confused and and the Accelerate tab stays hidden.

If not then you may have to start the whole process from scratch to try and get it to work.

I have not seen anyone be able to detail a procedure that would allow me to take an OS installed on an AHCI or IDE mode drive and convert it into a RAID mode drive that boots and enables the SRT Accelerate tab, even the guide that david successfully followed didn't work for me. I spent ages looking for one, and trying various things myself and in the end came to the conclusion that the only way to get SRT SSD Caching to work was to follow the motherboard manual instructions to the letter.

I'm glad that david managed to get it to work, and I hope that you manage to too, if not and you have to re-install from scratch, follow the instructions precisely and you should be able to get it to work.

In my experience, Intel Smart Response Technology is very sensitive to the exact order in which you do things.

First of all, remember that SRT can only cache a Windows boot drive, so you can't have an SSD Boot drive and then SRT cache another drive in your system.

Even then, you have set your ICH SATA ports into RAID mode in the BIOS. Then you have to install Windows 7, then install the intel drivers, then SRT. Then and only then can you add the SSD.

At this point, if you are lucky, you will see a new "Accelerate" tab on RST application and you can set up SSD caching. If you add it at any time before the other steps have been completed, SRT can get confused and and the Accelerate tab stays hidden.

If not then you may have to start the whole process from scratch to try and get it to work.

I have not seen anyone be able to detail a procedure that would allow me to take an OS installed on an AHCI or IDE mode drive and convert it into a RAID mode drive that boots and enables the SRT Accelerate tab, even the guide that david successfully followed didn't work for me. I spent ages looking for one, and trying various things myself and in the end came to the conclusion that the only way to get SRT SSD Caching to work was to follow the motherboard manual instructions to the letter.

I'm glad that david managed to get it to work, and I hope that you manage to too, if not and you have to re-install from scratch, follow the instructions precisely and you should be able to get it to work.

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In my experience, Intel Smart Response Technology is very sensitive to the exact order in which you do things.

First of all, remember that SRT can only cache a Windows boot drive, so you can't have an SSD Boot drive and then SRT cache another drive in your system.

Even then, you have set your ICH SATA ports into RAID mode in the BIOS. Then you have to install Windows 7, then install the intel drivers, then SRT. Then and only then can you add the SSD.

At this point, if you are lucky, you will see a new "Accelerate" tab on RST application and you can set up SSD caching. If you add it at any time before the other steps have been completed, SRT can get confused and and the Accelerate tab stays hidden.

If not then you may have to start the whole process from scratch to try and get it to work.

I have not seen anyone be able to detail a procedure that would allow me to take an OS installed on an AHCI or IDE mode drive and convert it into a RAID mode drive that boots and enables the SRT Accelerate tab, even the guide that david successfully followed didn't work for me. I spent ages looking for one, and trying various things myself and in the end came to the conclusion that the only way to get SRT SSD Caching to work was to follow the motherboard manual instructions to the letter.

I'm glad that david managed to get it to work, and I hope that you manage to too, if not and you have to re-install from scratch, follow the instructions precisely and you should be able to get it to work.