Hello Fernando.
Kudos to the forum.

That said, my problem is that I can not install the drivers modded 13.5.0.1056.
I said to the driver on the proper for the device is installed.

I put a picture ... which is sometimes better than words.

http://www.xtremeshack.com/image/235945.html

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #287

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Which OS are you running?
Did you use the "Have Disk" button while trying to update your currently installed Intel RST(e) AHCI driver v13.1.0.1058 WHQL?

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Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #289

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When you want to install a not digitally signed driver (e.g. a modded one), you have to force the installation by using the "Let me pick ......" option and hitting the "Have Disk" button.
Then you have to navigate to the folder with the desired driver and hit the suitable INF file. In your case it is the file named iaAHCIC.inf.
I am pretty sure, that you will succeed this way.

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My system wouldn't need the modded version of the 12.9.4.1000, would it? I'm not home so I can't check what southbridge chipset it really uses, sorry.

Well apparently MSI released a new BIOS for my MSI Big Bang xPowerII X79 motherboard.
So I decided to update the ROM's on this newer BIOS from MSI.

This is how it looks after updating:

As far as I could tell, after (re-)reading several forum topics and threads, the recommended OROM/EFI "Intel RST(e) RAID ROM modules" for X79-chipset is: 12.9.0.2006
I couldn't find much information on recommended version for OROM/EFI IRSTe, so I used the latest version (no clue is that is good): 4.1.0.1026

Ofcourse I updated the LAN OROM/EFI to the latest: 1.5.61 / 6.4.13
As for the OROM Asmedia 106X I had to do a new search again, because it said something that they "may not work" with my motherboard. I also read about various issues, don't know if they apply to me, with the other 2 version (v0.954 and v3.70). Therefor, I decided to not update this OROM and leave it at the current version: 0.951

This how it currently looks:


So far, I selected all correct OROM's, right? Or should I go for other versions?


Now I am wondering about 2 more things. The first one is about the CPU MicroCode update. If read it correctly you can only select to update Sandy Bridge OR Ivy Bridge, not both (which was possible in the past, but probably gave problems and thus removed?).
Because of this and the upgrade I am planning to do very soon 3960X (Sandy Bridge) > 4930K (Ivy Bridge), it's better to keep the current default CPU MicroCode for the time being, which is:

Default CPU MicroCode from MSI BIOS:


I think it's best to keep this unchanged, until I get my new Ivy Bridge CPU and then update the CPU MicroCode with the latest update for IVY Bridge CPU's, otherwise I might get problems with my current CPU (= 3960X).
By the way, is there a way to lookup which processors are supported in the CPU MicroCode list, or a tutorial somewhere on how to read it correctly? Tried several sites and searches based on CPUID, but no luck at all. :S

As for my 2nd question; based on the X79-chipset + 12.9.0.2006 (Intel RST(e) RAID ROM modules) + 4.1.0.1026 (OROM/EFI IRSTe), what/which Windows drivers are recommended for this?
Other information; as soon as I have received my new CPU (4930K), I will be doing a clean install of Windows 8.1 (x64). And I intend to run RAID 0 in the near future with 2x SSD's.

Thank you for responding in advance. Highly appreciated.

Thanks Fernando for the quick response back, as always; highly appreciated. :)

Thanks for the explanation, I will redo modding the bios by reverting to RSTe v3.8.0.1029, as you mentioned. I didn't know that v4.x was buggy and primarely developed for X99-chipsets.

Leaves me 1 more question; should I use:

a) Intel RST RAID driver v12.9.4.1000 (because of xxxx)

or

b) Intel RSTe RAID driver v3.8.1.1006 WHQL (because of v3.8.0.1029)

Thanks Fernando. :)

Oh one more thing; probably a silly question, if am not going to use RAID 0 and just keep my single Samsung 840 Pro 256GB.
Should I use different ROM's and drivers in that case for best performance or doesn't it matter much at all?