One oberservation for RAID-users on X58 mainboards: My P6TWS BIOS (and that of many other X58 mainboards) is limited to the 10.x Intel RAID ROM. With it, a clean installation of the Windows 10 RS4 and RS5 results in crashes during the installation. I've tried my modified P6X58D-E BIOS on the same board with an 15.X RAID ROM and the installation succeeds. It also succeeds with the 10.X ROM on the P6TWS BIOS when installing the 13.X RAID driver from an USB Stick during the Windows installation process.

Modded+signed Intel RST drivers v11.2.0.1006 - the archive is either in unknown format or damaged.
Also Modded+signed Intel RST(e) drivers v11.7.4.1001, Universal 32bit Intel RST(e) AHCI+RAID drivers v13.2.8.1002 re-mod+signed by Fernando and some other.

No luck for me installing Intel® RST (AHCI) v13.44.0.1026 [mod] from there:
Modded Intel AHCI and RAID Drivers (digitally signed) (61)

Freshy installed Win10 LTSB [x64], UEFI mode

Mobo : ......................... ASUS P8Z77-V DELUXE
ID : ............................. PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E02&CC_0106

After installation, next reboot goes to "Auto-Recovery" mode.
I can boot using "Unsigned drivers" mode (F7), where I can see Win-RAID CA sign inside.

But I can't use the mod in case of still persistent sign problems (normal boot is not available).

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #921

---

@iWARR: performance was very good

---

We can install modded driver without signing drivers. But you have to disable driver signature enforcement in Advanced PC Settings.

fernando v16.0.1.1018 modded driver working quite good on my Z87 + samsung evo 840 250gb config, can you mod new 16.0.2.1086 Z370 driver as well, this whole 16 series branch are very good for windows 10 RS3 build, maybe i try them on new 1803 RTM build later, browsing speed in opera is blazing fast with all 16 series modded drivers (using 16gb Cas11 2133 ram + samsung rapid mode) with low input lag and faster websites opening times, i don't know why but 14 series drivers are all slower than 16 series ones for my config, i could't find any kind of corruption or other minor bugs with new Z100-300 series drivers, they are just faster than older ones at least for my config, as for v13.44.0.1026 driver it gave me infinite boot and i have to reinstall windows, i think it has some kind of incompatibility problem

thank's i already have installed it and it is working fine:

Fernando

Thanks for the AHCI+RAID drivers v16.0.2.1086 [mod], thank you, george-2015, and to all testers shared their info here about v16 compatibility.
The drivers were installed flawlessly and working fast on Win8.1 [x64] and Win10 LTSB [x64], on Z77 !

I think, an old IRST drivers (doesn't matter which generation) can't being recommended any more.

Before I install this exellent drivers I was hardely confused.
I've moved my system to updated BIOS, Drivers v13.2.8.1002 [mod], full Meltdown/Specte2 protection (inc. new Ivy microcode).
Then my I/O HDD operations slowed down to unbeleivable level. Pretty fast PC appear like a notebook from 90-s... Of course, I knew about performance losses, but this...
I felt parallel read/write HDD operations freezing without any speed tests.
I have got even random errors time-to-time on system SATA SSD Volume during browsing and annoing Browser crashing...
BUT. SSD was healthy every time, after (fast) Volume checks. Often OS Shut Down stucks...

I'm happy your new drivers saved me. Now I've got a speed better then before (Win8.1 even faster than Win10), full stability, no Volume errors, plus Meltdown/Specte2 protection.
As well, the most weird side of this protection is I/O operations. It's logical to assume that Intel+MS took/must take this into account.
So, I guess, here we may see the result of this fixes in new IRST drivers being implemented or will be implemented in the future (if I'm not too optimistic here).

Anyway, the new era of "post-Meltdown/Specte apocalypsis" for IRST drivers is coming (and other drivers also).
Obsolete drivers will be trashed and can't live in new reality.

This is my short discovery and main message for today.

Fernando

Zitat

---

This has to be explored and either been verified or not.

---

Yes. I like you understand me correctly. Collecting statistic data is an obvious step.
Would be nice to have a look at tests. Mine quick tests say that v16 better in any conditions or ~ equal to pre-Metldown/Spectre era. Good luck!

I was rock stable on 13.1.x orom on my Z77/win7x64. I updated to 13.2.x and started noticing extreme slow down as well. I reverted to 13.1.x and all is great. Perhaps issue with 13.2 or maybe 13.2 better off with higher version driver. I am tempted to try 16.x series now.