Looks like there's still glitches with this branch of drivers.


I installed the latest 12.8.20.x on my H77 chipset motherboard paired with a SSD yesterday since they were more recent than the 13.x. I only use this config for web browsing and MMO/gaming, and the data written on the disk is roughly almost always around 2~3GB a day. I check the written data every day or two and before installing the 12.8.20x the data usage/written for the day was about 2GB and roughly 20GB for the last 7 days .

With the 12.8.20.x the amount of data written per day on the disk jumped by 10ish GB out of nowhere after a day of gaming. MMO gaming, I play FFXIV on high settings with limited shadow resolution and the FPS limit set to 30. I first thought it was something else like gfx card that started swapping texture or the SSD did some internal maintenance to adjust with the new AHCI drivers, but then today same problem after just 2 hours of gaming.


The only thing I changed on my config this past weeks was to update these AHCI drivers. It could be the drivers leaking memory, or the fact that they were originally posted for notebooks/tablets on HP website may indicate that they may be hardware/vendor specific and don't behave too well on other hardware. Or it could still be something else. I thought to post about my finding anyway to warn SSD users about these drivers, in case of they start writing/screwing much more data per day.

I'll posts again tomorrow whether it's still happening or if reverting back to the 13.x branch drivers fixed the issue.

Here's the link to the page on the HP site with these drivers: http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/swd/publi...b_149613_1#tab4

Dell laptops force you to use their graphic drivers and even the matching Intel official drivers refuse to install. Form what I read a while back when I had a DELL laptop, apparently they order some sort of customized chipsets to fit their need (I cannot find the source sorry.). I thought it was something similar.

In any case, the disk activity is back to normal since I reverted back to the 13.x branch drivers on my H77 motherboard. I checked yesterday after updating windows through windows update it was around 6GB, and today after a couple of hours or gaming/web browsing it's just a little above 2GB.

Hi Fernando,

I hope all is well on your side.

I got a silly question. I decided to give Windows 10 on my X79 system a go (pretty good imho), however what drivers for Windows 10 should I use for my system?
If I am correct I am still running Intel RST 13.1.0.2126 RAID driver (according to my BIOS).

So, according to your thread, it says: Intel RST(e) AHCI/RAID Drivers & Software Set v13.1.0.1058 WHQL = Best matching Intel RAID ROM/EFI BIOS modules: v13.1.0.2126
Can I just install these for Windows 10 (did GPT / UEFI installation ofcourse)?

I tried, probably completely wrong, "Complete Intel RSTe AHCI/RAID Drivers & Software Set v4.3.0.1542 for Win7/Win8/Win10" first. But it was a pain to install these and got my machine locked up several times. And had to refer to a restore point (now back on the original Windows 10 RAID drivers).

Secondly; what is the recommended Stripe size anyways for 2x 250 Samsung 850 EVO's in RAID 0?
I currently have it set to 128kb (dunno if that was to high) with a clustersize 8KB for C: (mainly Windows and a few programs) and 128KB for D: (games and photoshop files). Probably I need to redo this?

Thank you for your advice.

Regards,
HHawk

Station Drivers lists Intel RST v13.1.0.1058 WHQL as the newest driver for Z77/H77 motherboards. I want to know which is the latest/best driver to install for Windows 10. Intel RST only supports v13.1.0.1058 WHQL for Windows 8.1, not Windows 10... I also have a much newer non-matching Intel RST OROM (14.0.0.2198), but I do not use RAID, so it should not affect anything, should it?

Hi guys or WILLKOMMEN hhould I say :)

So, here's my problem.
I've got an old mobo, Asus P5Q PRO with Intel P45 / ICH10R Chipset. The lastest driver - Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation Utility V9.1.1.1019 for Windows 32/64bit XP & 32/64bit Vista & 32/64bit Windows 7.(WHQL) - on ASUS website comes from 2009/09/18.
It's comes a time when I rly need to reinstall the whole system on it. W7 was working for years without any major problems so my plan is to stick with it. Last time when I setup a new system I was installing only this old driver, then GPU, and audiocard - nothing more, no RAID or extra AHCI drivers (im not sure that was the right idea).
The question is: should I install sth else? I've found this forum by accident. Do I feel any diffrence when I instal your drivers? Are they 100% compatible? I was searching for thread or sth like "Why you should install our drivers". Im not a pr0 user, not a technician or IT guy, so simple exlanation would be much more clear to me.
If there's any chance pls reply :)

My setup:
Windows 7 Ultimate x64
C2D E8400 @3.00
Asus P5Q PRO, bios 2102
ADATA 2x2GB 800Mhz
Samsung 840 EVO 120GB
2x WD RED 3TB (non RAID, still can't decide about that)
GTX260 216

Intel released 14.5.0.1081 on 7/29/2015 on their Intel® Rapid Storage Technology (Intel® RST) download page.

What option ROM does "belong" to that driver?

EDIT: And what ROM would fit best to the default Windows 10 driver? (for an ICH10R, set to RAID mode in BIOS, but no actual RAID array at this time)

Zitat

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This is no driver, but a simple information file from Intel, which may have given the Intel SATA Controller of your system a special name. So the age of this textmode file is not important at all, because the file has no real function.
If you want to see the real AHCI driver, which is managing the Intel SATA ports of your mainboard, you should open the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" section of the Device Manager, right click onto the listed Intel SATA Controller (may be named "Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller") and choose the options "Properties" > "Driver" > "Driver details". Then you will see the driver (it has the extension .SYS).
I suspect, that your Intel SATA Controller is using the driver named MSAHCI.SYS, which is the generic Win7 in-box AHCI driver from Microsoft.

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Well... I see the download right under it, I've downloaded it many times, and it seems to be a 5.58MB driver file after all... see for yourself (

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #837

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My answer is: If you want to use this Intel RAID driver, I recommend to insert the Intel RST ROM v13.2.0.2134. into the BIOS.

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