Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1618

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Please use an up-to-date WinRAR version (from v5.xx up), if you want to unzip our RAR archives. I am pretty sure, hat you will get properly unzipped files this way.

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15.8.1 has serious issues on Win10 v1709 even though it worked fine on 1703. I have H110 chipset with 4 drives, 1 SSD and 3 HDDs. One of the HDDs has 1+TB of music that I shuffle in AIMP; with 15.8.1 the app would crash randomly in background while switching to another track. Reverted back to default MS driver and it works properly, it even fixed my slowdowns while doing HDD to HDD transfers so I'm off Intel RST for a while.

Intel RSTe AHCI/RAID drivers v5.3.0.1388 WHQL does work fine on ASUS Sabertooth X99 (W10 64bit RS3) to handle SATA Controller 2 (sSATA) running in AHCI mode only (design limitation).

@Fernando
Can you explain me what is this mysterious Intel "DEV_2F9C" listed as System Device under a fresh W10 RS3 on my Sabertooth X99 ?

@Fernando,
Thanks for the info.
However, I don't understand how this device is related to "Intel RSTe Device" as reported by W10 ......

I have been installing and testing several versions of the RSTe driver by now over a long period of time with my MSI X79A-GD65 8D mainboard. The behavior is always the same on shutdown:
1. Windows 10 shuts down and the screen turns blank.
2. I can hear everything in the desktop case spin down
3. Then I can hear every hard disc and drive in the system starting to spin up again.
4. Then everything spins down again.
5. The system is turned off.

When I use the Microsoft default driver instead, the shutdown consists just of steps 1., 2. and 5. The complete sequence takes ca. 30 seconds. The performance according to CrystalDiskMarc is a little bit worse with the Microsoft driver but not by much.

Does anybody know why my system behaves like that?

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1630

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The HDD spin-up/spin-down issue is wellknown for some specific Intel chipset configurations and obviously caused by some Intel RST drivers (as far as I remember mainly from the v14.8 branch).
The only solution I know is to search for a driver, which doesn't show this behaviour.
Are you running your on-board Intel SATA Controller in AHCI or RAID mode? Which is the DeviceID?

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@Fernando,
Here is the informations I get from oem44.inf:


nota: My CPU is not a Xeon, so does it mean that if I had a Xeon instead of an i7 5930K CPU, this X99 platform should be able to support NVMe CPU RAID manageable by the last v5.2 RSTe VROC driver ? (by the way, I ignore how to recognize a PCIe slot connected directly to the CPU vs a PCIe slot connected to the PCH ?)

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #1632

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If not already done, I recommend to test the following Intel AHCI drivers:
1. Intel RST(e) drivers v13.1.0.1058 WHQL
2. Intel RST(e) drivers v12.9.4.1000 WHQL
3. "Universal Intel RST(e) drivers v13.2.8.1002 mod+signed by me" (if not already done, don't forget to import the Certificate before you install it)
4. "Universal Intel RST driver v11.2.0.1006 mod+signed by me" (requires the previous Certificate import as well)

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