I have the following problem.
I have, because the old mainboard was defect,bought a new Asus Rampage 3 Extreme and a Samsung Evo 256GB. Now i want to install Win 7 Ultimate 64bit completely new. The Operating System should be on the SSD and my old HDD should be for music and so on.
Unfortunately I do not have much knowledge of the matter with all the drivers and bios settings,so I want kindly ask for help .The best mode is AHCI I think and the SSD should connect with the Marvell controller. On the Asus siteare only the outdated drivers.
I want to use vLite to put the driver i need driver in the Windows boot version, but I’m not sure which drivers i need, and on how I should proceed.
Thanks in advance for the help and sorry for my bad english:-)
@ KingScor:
Thanks for having posted in English language.
Regarding your “problem” I have 2 questions:
- Why do you want to integrate any SATA resp. AHCI driver into the Win7 image?
Note: Windows 7 supports natively the SATA AHCI ports of your X58 Chipset mainboard. - Why do you want connect the SSD to the Marvell SATA port?
Note: The Intel SATA ports will give you a better performance, because they belong to the chipset of your mainboard.
If I were you, I would set the Intel ICH10R SATA Controller to “AHCI” mode, connect the SSD to the first Intel SATA port (usually named port0) and do a clean Win7 x64 install.
Once the OS is up and running, you can test different Intel AHCI driver versions and look, which one is the best for you and your PC usage. If you want to test any Intel RST(e) driver of the v12 or v13 series, you will have to use a modded version and to force the manual installation by using the “Have Disk” option.
Thx for the fast Answer.
1. I read about that the Marvell Sata driver must be installed during Windows installation (here (only german language link)
2. I have seen in a test that the marvell 6gb slower wriet than the Intel3 gb, but faster read.
In theory, your 1601 modded bios version would contain all new drivers, right?And can u tell me plz how to intall the ntel RST(e) driver of the v12 or v13 series, there are only .sys files and so on…
As I said, I have not much experience of it
This is not valid for Win7.
Which read scores were higher with the Marvell SATA ports? The most important for the daily work are the 4K ones.
Which "1601 modded bios version" do you mean? Where did you see it?
By the way: A BIOS doesn’t contain any drivers, just modules.
- Open the "IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers" section of the Device Manager.
2. Right click onto the listed "Standard AHCI 1.0 Serieller-ATA-Controller" and choose the options "Update Driver Software" > "Browse my Computer…" > "Let me pick …" > hit "Have Disk".
3. Navigate to the iaAHCI.inf resp. iaAHCIC.inf file of the Intel driver you want to install > "OK"
After the reboot your SSD will be managed by the Intel AHCI driver instead of the generic MS AHCI driver.
I saw the test here:click post 70.
I mean this Bios click
Thx for the good Instruction.
And by the way, which are the most important drivers and where i can get them? At the asus site are many non sense drivers and all from 2009.
This review verifies, that the on-board Intel SATA2 ports of an Intel chipset mainboard will give the "normal" user for his daily work a better performance and stability than the on-board third-party Marvell SATA3 ports.
You can use it, but it has been modded by our Forum member ZioGTS and not by me.
Please look into >this< section of my Forum.
>Here< you can find the Intel AHCI driver versions, which I recommend to use, and >here< you find the download links to the latest original Intel AHCI driver versions. If you want to use an Intel RST(e) driver of the v12 or v13 series, you should go >here< and download one of the modded drivers. They all do support the Intel ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller of your mainboard.
Ah, ok, then i take the Intel Sata2.
Sry, i confused the names in which bios.
Thx. But i meant the other basic drivers like Jmicron and so on.
Is there any site with up to date versions of the drivers?
You can find the best/latest SATA drivers incl. those from JMicron >here<.
Regarding all other drivers you should join the Station-Drivers site as hanson already has proposed.
Ah, ok. thx guys.
And with the new Bios Version 1601 modded, should i install it first before Win7 get a new install or it doesnt matter?
By the way, do i need Jmicron? Intel RST v 13.x doesnt suffice?
I dont can find any Intel Gigabit Ethernet Driver there.
And is the IRST the only chipset driver or did i need some more?
On the Asus Site is an intel Chipset Driver, old Version and i cant find this on station-drivers.
Which drivers i need really? There is too much Stuff. click
Sry for the many questions but i dont want to make any mistakes:-)
Hi,
I would do the BIOS update first, then do all your in-BIOS settings and finally install Windows. As long as you don’t disable the jmicron controller in the BIOS you should install the drivers for it under Windows.
Good luck!
I recommend: jmicron sata drivers, marvell sata driver, intel chipset device software (look on google for “intel inf autoupdate”), NEC USB 3.0 driver, Realtek audio driver and RST package (you can install driver only when you don’t use RAID but using the complete package is more easy because the installer does everything for you)
Edit: Chipset software is here
USB 3.0 here
JMICRON here
Marvell here
and Realtek here
Best regards hanson
Many many thanks. I hope I can return the favor sometime.-)
No problem. And for your Intel ethernet you may try this one. But I’m not sure because I don’t know the device ID.
Oh, which of the USB3 Drivers i need? There are 5.
You have to check the device ID of your usb 3.0 controller to be sure. And only 2 of them are drivers, the other are firmware. You can be sure that one of the 2 drivers will work for your system. Just download both and try, the one that dows not match will give an error during install. So then you know that it’s the other ;-). And maybe you should also download the firmware for the controller as soon as you know which one you have (use the firmware that is for same device ID like the driver you could successfully install)
The Device ID is Intel 82567V-2 Gigabit network Adapter.
OK then my linked driver set works
Really? I dont can see the 82567V-2 in the Pour: list?