I apologize for the following noob questions if they have been answered elsewhere.

I'm looking to install the RST drivers without the accompanying software bundle. So I downloaded the version from here that excludes the software set. However, I'm a bit of a loss how to proceed. The zip contains exe but I suspect those are not setup files. I think I'm supposed to use device manager here but I'm not familiar with the process. Can I please get some pointers? This is for a fresh install of Windows 10. Some added context, I have no use for Raid, Optane, or SSD caching. However, I believe this driver is supposed to include ACHI optimizations that could be beneficial. Is that right?

Edit:
Went ahead and used device manager to manually update one of the controllers. Seems to work fine. However, a second controller remains. When I try to point it at the new download, this time Windows complains that the best drivers have already been installed.

How do I update the second controller as I did the first?



Edit 2: Possible answer - I looked up the vendor and device id and the second controller is actually by ASMedia which is probably why it won't update with the Intel drivers. I would probably need a separate download for those.

Still appreciate if someone more knowledgeable confirms the above.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #2291

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It is wellknown, that users with an Intel chipset system from ICH8R Southbridge up to 400-Series can install all Intel RST drivers, if the SATA Controller is running in "RAID" mode (due to its uniform external DeviceID DEV_2822), but this does not mean, that the on-board Intel SATA RAID Controllers are fully supported by all these drivers. The much more important, but usually hidden internal DeviceID of the various Intel SATA RAID Controllers is quite different.

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Hi I'm trying to install >64bit Intel RST AHCI/RAID/NVMe Drivers v18.30.0.1135 WHQL< ( first v18 platform ).
It seems i can't install it,saying i already have the best driver installed ( Microsoft storage spaces controller default one )

Motherboard: MSI B360 Gaming Plus
Windows: 10 Version 2004

>64bit Intel RST AHCI/RAID/NVMe Drivers v17.9.4.1017 WHQL< I can install it without problems. I just wanted to try the first v18 platform.
Thanks mate.

Hi Fernando
Thank you for the quick replay.
For the latest v17 platform it was pretty easy to install just right click on the Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller and update, then after restart the default one get delete and it got replaced with the one from the latest v17 Intel B360 Ahci etc.
But for the latest v18 I really can t find a way to install it.

I was looking for IDE/ATA/ATAPI controllers but i can t find it.

https://ibb.co/svpG9FR
https://ibb.co/5h1wKQ3
https://ibb.co/XbRnVsX

Here's the photo
But the problem is i can t find ide ata/atapi controllers

Yeah now i have it
I restarted my pc
Here's the screenshots+the bios

About intel nvme driver it's better than the one i used to install from Samsung website?
And again thank you for leading a hand helping me installing latest v18 platform

Still i can't update the driver of the "Standard/Intel SATA AHCI Controller", which is listed within the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" section of the Device Manager)

I followed your procedure and now the installation for iaAHcIc runned smooth.
So now i have latest v18 platform installed?