When I go to shutdown Windows 8.1, the HDD (onboard RAID 1) will shut off then power back up only to shut off again. I use an ASUS Z87-Plus, Bios 1504 with RST driver 12.8.0.1016.

Any Ideas what can cause this problem?

best regards,

Sarge

Hello Fernando,

thanks for the information! Didn't search enough in the forum about this issue (sorry about that). I'll try the new drivers and let you know about the result.

best regards,

Sarge

Hi,

no luck with driver 12.8.6.1000, same issue with hdd shutdown. Changed to original driver 12.0.1.1019 (Windows) without RST-Software (doesnt exist for this driver version), no problems with this version! Maybe with the next version the problem will be resolved.

best regards,

Sarge

This is the problem I posted on yesterday.

With Win8.1 clean install, the OS will only install 12.0.1 driver, that's it. With this, there is no spin-up. If you update that driver via Device Manager (not the RST GUI etc) to 12.8 or anything above 12.6.3 you will start experiencing this problem. I can't find anything older than 12.6.3 to confirm "when" it actually became an issue.

The only remedy to this is disable hibernation file if you choose to use >12.0.1 driver. Once I do this, there is no more spin-up no matter the driver version.

edit: ok so 12.0 even with the GUI has no problems but that's ~11 months old now. The next one I can find is v12.5.0 and this has the problem already.

Switching the HDDs to the Asmedia ports will fix it and I guess is a solution, you're not losing speed on a normal 7200 spinner.

If you want to see if you can replicate the issue, put the HDD on your SATA2 port (Intel), make sure hibernation file is on and turn the computer off. What I'm "expecting" you see is that instead of nice and quick shut-down, you'll hear the HDD spin-up during that process which of course extends the shut-down process.

But.. anyhow, seems using Asmedia ports solves this.