Hello best forum ever.

I was wondering if it is known here that there are problems with eDrive disks in combination with the RST 13.1.0.1058 drivers on Z77 chipsets.

I was having problems with data corruption on my Samsung 850 that is set as eDrive (hardware encryption). Took me a while to come across the reasons why.

The RST drivers 13.1.0.1058 are not compatible with eDrives at all and create file corruption. When these drivers get installed , the IEEE1667 and tcg opal devices disappear from windows device manager and corruption starts.
There are no problems with the stock windows 10 AHCI driver and also no problems after changing to 13.2 firmware and drivers from RST which belong to the 8 series. The IEEE1667 and Opal devices stay in device manager.
Lucky windows 10 let me install the 8 series 13.2 whql driver and it works well now.

Greetings

I swith now from my old z170 Asus to z390 Gigabyte. v16 or v17 are now the best right?

Hi,

After running the newer firmware and driver 13.2 for z77 AHCI mode, I can definatly confirm that firmware 13.1 plus it's driver should not be recommended at all for 7 series chipsets, in a ahci mode anyway on UEFI boot.
Maybe it works flawless in legacy bios boot, I did not test that.

That 13.1 has been creating minor file corruption from the day I started using it (also on non eDrives). Now with firmware 13.2 , Everything works fine and no more file corruption at all. The system now works without an annoying ghost in it.

i'm wondering if the Sata Ahci hardware would be really much different (if any at all) between (6/) 7 and 8 / 9 series. Intel states on it's site that even up to 14 there should be support for 7 series in the txt and html documents with each driver.
Yet the drivers themself do not have the 7 series in their .inf files. This is most confusing from intel themself and the reason why is propably more economics than technical.

I'm guessing the later because the 13.2 rst are also stated on the site to support 7 series yet the driver .inf has no support for 7, though it installs (i chose the 8 series driver manually) with a minor warning from windows it "might" not be compatible.
But it works without a hitch in practice.

If any info can be shared i would be thankfull before going on to try up to 14.8 with accompanying firmware ofcourse.
Which one i will end up with will be decided by the combination of Sata Protocols that all my sata devices support and are supported by the firmware
(newer devices might not have old protoccols and older firmware no protocols for newer devices),
prefferably the latest possible considering bugfixes aswel.

Kind greetings

Ok , thank you for the response. It very well could be there are no benefits at all in going higher indeed. As it all works now, it might be unwise to make further changes.
(Bonus is that now some windows functions work that did not before, like fast startup.)

Kind greetings.

My old pc (Asus P5Q + Core 2 Duo e8400 + 4Gb ram) with a Corsair ssd loadind so fast, in a few seconds. I check what drivers i have install and is the Intel RST(e) v11.7.4.1001 (ICH10R , sata2 port). So i agree about this drivers with Fernando.

My new pc not loading so fast...

Hello would it make sense for a GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 REV 1.0 (Z68X Intel-6) mainboard to use the Intel RST(e) v11.7.4.1001 like for the X58 chipset?

The recommendation to use RST(e) v13.2.8.1002 conflicts with the description of the driver (for Intel-8 chipsets and higher...)?

I use SSD and HDD in AHCI mode only.

I'm a bit overwhelmed by the large selection. modded drivers... manual installation... currently i use the Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 RST software setup because it is the easiest :)

Hi! I do apologize if I ask one stupid question.

I have a Asus Maximus Hero VII Motherboard (Z97 chipset) It was a surprise for me That I could install Windows XP, but I had to change IDE setttings in BIOS ( from ACHI to IDE). I would like to set ACHI in BIOS and I read in inet that in this forum there are drivers for that. I've seen the first post in this thread but I haven't clear what drivers I should use

I would like to know what the ACHI driver is the correct for Windows XP in my system

Thanks a lot Fernando for your quickly answer. I'll try your advices