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#361 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 2:50 pm

@willie666:
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Zitat von willie666 im Beitrag #358
With Z77 Chipset you can install 8-series family driver manually from the latest 14.8.0.1042.

Who said, that this wouldn't work? Wghat do you think was the reason, why I am offering mod+signed "Universally" usable Intel RST drivers?
Nevertheless not each driver, which is installable (by forcing the installation) will work flawlessly with a device, for which it has not been designed.

Zitat
There are no AHCI differences between 7 and 8 series in driver.

The Intel SATA AHCI Controllers of 7- and 8-Series chipsets are quite different.
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#362 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 4:07 pm (Last edited: Sun May 22, 2016 4:27 pm)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #359
The Intel SATA AHCI Controllers of 7- and 8-Series chipsets are quite different.

Im reffering to this thread:http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=401529
What is your alternative for me to use the latest drivers? Your latest modded drivers didnt work on my Z77 board.

There are 3 Ways I can install latest Intel AHCI divers on my Z77 Chipset:
1. I use 13.1.0.1058 this is the latest with native Z77 support, but this uses APM which makes my hdd standby
2. I use 12.9.0.1001 this is the latest without APM
Im on Windows 10. Why should I use the old win7/8 drivers from above? So
3. I use the latest 14.8.0.1042 8-series AHCI.

EDIT by Fernando: To save space I have merged your last posts and removed unneeded parts of the quoted text and unneeded blank lines.

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#363 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 4:41 pm

Zitat von willie666 im Beitrag #360
What is your alternative for me to use the latest drivers?

There are people, who feel better, when they are running the latest drivers no matter whether these drivers do support their system at its best or not. I always compare the different driver versions and choose the driver version, which seems to be the best for my system.

Zitat
Your latest modded drivers didnt work on my Z77 board.

Then you have done something wrong. Please repeat the procedure.
By the way: I do not create or modify any driver (= *.sys file). All I do is customizing the related text file (*.inf) to make the driver installable with Controllers, which are natively not supported.

Zitat
Why should I use the old win7/8 drivers from above? So I use the latest 14.8.0.1042 8-series AHCI.

If this driver is the best for you, why not? By the way: The Intel RST driver v14.8.0.1042 is not the latest from Intel.
My personal experiences with my old Z77 and Z68 systems were different (look >here<).

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#364 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 4:57 pm

@Bit42:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum! I am sorry about my delayed reply, but I obviously missed your contribution (despite its length).
You gave a lot of informations about your system (inclusive the Firmware version of your Optical Drive ), but forgot to mention the most important part of your system:
Which mainboard model with which chipset has your system?
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#365 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 5:08 pm

Your modded driver isnt working. See the picture I attached. I treid several times, with restart and downgrading the AHCI to Microsoft standard, still not possible to install. And why should I use drivers which are engineered for Windows7/8 on a windows10 system?

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#366 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 5:19 pm

Zitat von willie666 im Beitrag #363
Your modded driver isnt working. See the picture I attached. I treid several times, with restart and downgrading the AHCI to Microsoft standard, still not possible to install. And why should I use drivers which are engineered for Windows7/8 on a windows10 system?

This is a very good question!

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#367 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 6:16 pm

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Zitat von willie666 im Beitrag #363
Your modded driver isnt working.

You are the first user, who reported that.
Since I don't see any mistake within the modded INF file, I am waiting for the feedback coming from other Z77 AHCI users, who tried to install any of my mod+signed driverpacks.

Zitat von willie666 im Beitrag #363
And why should I use drivers which are engineered for Windows7/8 on a windows10 system?

Until now there is not a single Intel RST driver available, which has been designed for Win10.
Even the INF files of the latest drivers v14.8.7.1051 WHQL just contain the NT versions NT6.1 (=Win7) and NT6.2 (Win8/8.1).
Proof:

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[Manufacturer] 
%INTEL% = INTEL, NTx86.6.1, NTx86.6.2
 

Furthermore all the latest Intel RST driver of the v14.8 series do contain the SCSI filter driver named iaStorF.sys, although this driver is neither needed nor used with Win8/8.1 and Win10.

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#368 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 7:08 pm

Ok. I have your driver working, now. Thank you!!!

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#369 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 7:09 pm

Zitat von willie666 im Beitrag #366
Ok. I have your driver working, now.

Thanks for this feedback.
Do you know the reason for your previous problem?

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#370 | RE: Which are the "best" Intel AHCI/RAID drivers? datum

Sun May 22, 2016 7:13 pm (Last edited: Mon May 23, 2016 2:59 pm)

I ignored the certificates Folder ;-) Your driver is working even on a H77 and a HM55 Win10 system. Thank you!!!

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#371 | Best HM77 chipset AHCI driver datum

Sun May 29, 2016 10:10 pm

Hi Fernando,

I have a MSI GT70 with a i7-3740qm with Win7 x64. It's in AHCI mode with Intel 7 Series Chipset and I think (from CPUZ) it's the HM77 chipset (PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E03&SUBSYS_10BE1462&REV_04) and driver version 11.1.0.1006. Is there a better performing driver version I can use?

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Current Laptop System
MSI GT70-OND 202US, CPU: Intel i7 3740QM, Disks: Samsung 840 Pro 256gb & Samsung 850 EVO 1TB, Sata Mode: AHCI, Graphics: Nvidia Clevo 980m, RAM: 4x4GB, OS: Win 10 x64 Pro

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#372 | RE: Best HM77 chipset AHCI driver datum

Sun May 29, 2016 10:41 pm

@Dime_Baggins:
Please expand the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" section of the Device Manager and check the DeviceID of your Intel SATA AHCI Controller (right click onto it > "Properties" > "Details" > "Property" > "HardwareIDs").
Interesting is just the DeviceID (=DEV_XXXX).

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#373 | RE: Best HM77 chipset AHCI driver datum

Sun May 29, 2016 10:46 pm

PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E03&SUBSYS_10BE1462&REV_04
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E03&SUBSYS_10BE1462
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E03&CC_010601
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E03&CC_0106

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Current Laptop System
MSI GT70-OND 202US, CPU: Intel i7 3740QM, Disks: Samsung 840 Pro 256gb & Samsung 850 EVO 1TB, Sata Mode: AHCI, Graphics: Nvidia Clevo 980m, RAM: 4x4GB, OS: Win 10 x64 Pro

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#374 | RE: Best HM77 chipset AHCI driver datum

Sun May 29, 2016 11:16 pm

Zitat von Dime_Baggins im Beitrag #371
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1E03&CC_0106

This verifies, that the related system has an Intel 7-Series Chipset and running in AHCI mode.
Since your request matches this thread the best, I have moved it into to it.
You can find the Intel RST driver version, which I recommend to use with such system, within the start post of this thread.

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#375 | RE: Best HM77 chipset AHCI driver datum

Mon May 30, 2016 7:41 pm

Thanks Fernando. I used ">64bit Intel RST(e) AHCI/RAID Drivers v13.1.0.1058 WHQL< ". Oringinaly I didn't see the table at the bottom of the original post. When manually installing, I had to force it to use that driver, it gave some message about it might not be the right driver and might not function or something, I disregarded it and installed anyways and so far so good. I didn't install anything but the driver though (no software). Does it seem like I did the right thing to you?

Current Desktop System
MB: Asus x58 Sabertooth, CPU: Intel Xeon x5690, Disks: 2 TB WD Black + 2 Samsung 840 Pro 256GB, SATA mode: RAID 0, Graphics: 2 x Nvidia EVGA 780ti SC SLI, RAM: 3x8 GB G.Skill Ares DDR3-1600, OS: Win10 Pro x64

Current Laptop System
MSI GT70-OND 202US, CPU: Intel i7 3740QM, Disks: Samsung 840 Pro 256gb & Samsung 850 EVO 1TB, Sata Mode: AHCI, Graphics: Nvidia Clevo 980m, RAM: 4x4GB, OS: Win 10 x64 Pro

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