@ SoNic67:

Welcome at Win-RAID Forum and thanks for your feedback!
By the way: The original Intel RST(e) drivers 12.9.0.1001 are WHQL certified and no beta drivers (nevertheless the v12.8.11.1000 drivers are newer and maybe better).

Regards
Fernando

Ah, I saw newer date and I assumed that the others are betas. Confusing :)

I AM SORRY BUT YOU MUST BE JOKING, RIGHT? YOU CALL THAT A ..."SOLUTION" ?!?!?!

"None of the "modded" drivers can be successfully loaded as F6 driver at the beginning of the Vista SP1, Win7 or Win8 installation."

FIRST OF ALL, THE OSes YOU JUST MENTIONED DO NOT USE THE F6 METHOD TO LOAD DRIVERS AT THE BEGINNING, THIS IS TRUE ONLY WITH WIN2K, WINXP AND WIN2K3 SERVER, ANYTHING AFTER VISTA IS NOT USING THE F6 PROCEDURE, YOU CAN LOAD THE DRIVERS LATER DURING INSTALLATION, AND ACTUALLY, MORE SOURCES ARE SUPPORTED, NOT JUST A FLOPPY (OR A SPECIALLY FORMATTED USB) AS IS THE CASE WITH THE TRADITIONAL F6 METHOD.

SO NOW THAT WE ARE CLEAR ABOUT THAT, I HAVE TO ASK YOU:

WHAT IS THE USE OF "MODIFYING" THESE DRIVERS IF THEY CANNOT BE USED DURING THE DRIVER-LOADING PORTION OF INSTALLING A WINDOWS OS ?

I MEAN, ARE YOU FOR REAL OR YOU ARE JUST FOOLING AROUND AND WASTING OUT TIME AS WELL?

APPARENTLY, JUDGING FROM YOUR OBVIOUS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE WITH INSTALLING WINDOWS (F6, ETC) YOU ARE INDEED WASTING OUR TIME, RIGHT?

THE SCARY THING IS, THE INTERNET IS REPLETE OF "EXPERTS" LIKE YOU!

WHAT YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST DONE IS POST YOUR LITTLE PATHETIC DISCLAIMER WITH BIG BOLD LETTERS AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE INSTEAD AT THE VERY BOTTOM!!!

YOU ASKED FOR FEEDBACK, WELL ... YOU GOT IT!!!

WHAT A MORON!

Zitat von AnotherUselessForum im Beitrag #93

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I AM SORRY BUT YOU MUST BE JOKING, RIGHT? YOU CALL THAT A ..."SOLUTION" ?!?!?!

"None of the "modded" drivers can be successfully loaded as F6 driver at the beginning of the Vista SP1, Win7 or Win8 installation."

FIRST OF ALL, THE OSes YOU JUST MENTIONED DO NOT USE THE F6 METHOD TO LOAD DRIVERS AT THE BEGINNING, THIS IS TRUE ONLY WITH WIN2K, WINXP AND WIN2K3 SERVER, ANYTHING AFTER VISTA IS NOT USING THE F6 PROCEDURE, YOU CAN LOAD THE DRIVERS LATER DURING INSTALLATION, AND ACTUALLY, MORE SOURCES ARE SUPPORTED, NOT JUST A FLOPPY (OR A SPECIALLY FORMATTED USB) AS IS THE CASE WITH THE TRADITIONAL F6 METHOD.

SO NOW THAT WE ARE CLEAR ABOUT THAT, I HAVE TO ASK YOU:

WHAT IS THE USE OF "MODIFYING" THESE DRIVERS IF THEY CANNOT BE USED DURING THE DRIVER-LOADING PORTION OF INSTALLING A WINDOWS OS ?

I MEAN, ARE YOU FOR REAL OR YOU ARE JUST FOOLING AROUND AND WASTING OUT TIME AS WELL?

APPARENTLY, JUDGING FROM YOUR OBVIOUS LACK OF KNOWLEDGE WITH INSTALLING WINDOWS (F6, ETC) YOU ARE INDEED WASTING OUR TIME, RIGHT?

THE SCARY THING IS, THE INTERNET IS REPLETE OF "EXPERTS" LIKE YOU!

WHAT YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST DONE IS POST YOUR LITTLE PATHETIC DISCLAIMER WITH BIG BOLD LETTERS AT THE TOP OF THE PAGE INSTEAD AT THE VERY BOTTOM!!!

YOU ASKED FOR FEEDBACK, WELL ... YOU GOT IT!!!

WHAT A MORON!

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@ AnotherUseselessForum:

You are not welcome at Win-RAID Forum, because you are flaming!
Additionally you are absolutely wrong:

1. It makes definitively sense to offer modded AHCI/RAID drivers even if they cannot be used from scratch.
   Users, who want to use the latest drivers, although their special AHCI/RAID Controller is natively not supported by them, can install the OS by using any suitable AHCI/RAID driver and update to the modded newer/better one once the OS is up.
2. Although the AHCI/RAID drivers cannot be loaded by hitting F6 while trying to install any Windows Operating system from Vista up, the name "F6 drivers" is still commonly in use for "pure" digitally signed drivers, which can be loaded during the OS installation.
   Look here, what the Intel Download Center is offering for Win7, Win8.1 etc.:
   
   

Today I got access to new Intel RST(e) drivers v13.0.0.1098 WHQL dated 02/19/2014. Meanwhile I have modified them to make them usable with as many Intel chipset AHCI and RAID systems as possible.

Update of the start post

Changelog:

• new: 32/64bit Intel RST(e) AHCI & RAID drivers v13.0.0.1098 mod by Fernando

I've tested the new modded driver 13.0 with my x58 ICH10R sabertooth and win7 x64 system ssd crucial m4 in AHCI mode.
The read performance is ok but write performance drops dramaticly compared to version 11.7.4 or 12.8.11. I don't know what happen when it runs the 4K-64Thrd write test, the speed is jumping up and down and need a lot of time to finish this test.
after change back to 12.8.11 everything becomes normal again. Now I will stick with this driver as I get the best performance results and the system is running very stable just like with the 11.7.4 driver

@ wasisdn:
Thanks for your report, which verifies, that the RST(e) v13 Series drivers are not really recommended for being used with older chipsets, because they are not designed at all for them (no fully backwards compatibility).
Your experience confirms my opinion, that the well developed latest Intel RST v11.2 (v11.2.0.1006), RST(e) v11.7 (v11.7.4.1001) and RST(e) v12.8 (v12.8.11.1000) series drivers still are and probably will stay the best choice for users with an ICH7-10 or 5-Series chipset system.

Hello and thank you for your awesome job. I spent all day looking for drivers, none of them worked and then i found your page. I wanted to ask which driver you recommend for GA-P35-dS3 (ICH9) board.
I installed v11.2.0.1006 should i bench and then try newer version till I find one that works the best ? Which version would you recommend ?

@ KeoZ:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

Zitat von Keoz im Beitrag #99

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I wanted to ask which driver you recommend for GA-P35-dS3 (ICH9) board.
I installed v11.2.0.1006 should i bench and then try newer version till I find one that works the best ? Which version would you recommend ?

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HELLO FERNANDO

WHAT YOU SAID IS VERY DIFICULT TO ME , I CANT UNDERSTAND WHAT U SAID AND DONT KNOW HOW TO INSTALL XP AND ALL THE DRIVERS U MENTIONNED

IT MEANS I WANT TO INSTALL XP ON MY HP PAVILION 15 AND I CANT AND I AM NOT AN EXPERT SO IS THERE A WAY TO GENERATE A BOOTABLE CD TO INSTALL MY LAPTOP

THAT S ALL
THANKS

I have a Windows 8.1 (update 1) PC with RST 11.7.0.1013 official on ICH10R.
Unfortunately none of your modded newer versions can be installed on my system :( ..the manual installation from device manager tells me that my system is already a newer version.
It 'a problem of Windows 8.1 ?
Excuse my english i'm Italian.

P.S.
I have disable the driver integrity check. ;)

@ MAD MAX:
Welcome at Win-RAID Forum!

Zitat von MAD MAX im Beitrag #101

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I WANT TO INSTALL XP ON MY HP PAVILION 15 AND I CANT AND I AM NOT AN EXPERT SO IS THERE A WAY TO GENERATE A BOOTABLE CD TO INSTALL MY LAPTOP

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@ Simo75:
Welcome at WinRAID Forum!

If you want to manually install a modded driver from within the Device Manager, you have to force the installation by using the "Have Disk" button!

Regards
Fernando

@Fernando
Perfect! thanks sorry if I wasted your time!!