Unfortunately you forgot to give us some very important informations: 1. Is your on-board Intel ICH10R SATA Controller running in AHCI or in RAID mode? 2. Which OS with which architecture (32/64bit) are you currently running? 3. What was your reason to try the modded+signed Intel RST drivers v11.2.0.1006 and MSM drivers v11.7.4.1001? Both choices don’t make sense for me. 4. Did you install the “pure” Intel MSM/RST drivers or the related Drivers & Software Sets? If it was the latter, did you uninstall the MSM/RST Software before you installed another driver?
Which is the name of the Controller and the name of the driver (you see it after having hit the “Driver details” button)?
1. Firstly, im running AHCI single SSD 2. windows 10 64bit 3. Since im ich10r i thought those were the right drivers to install. Which ones should i install then? 4. I tried both i think, from this topic and the other topic with 100+ pages. I could only install the RST software once, which was the 11.2.0.1006, which didnt work. Uninstalled it right away.
Right now im using the 11.7.4.1001 Pure, manually installed because the RST software fails to install. It worked good for 1 hour or so, then full freeze, now im having the 100% full load whila gaming again with stuttering every 2 seconds and eventually full crash
the details are INTEL ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller system32\drivers\iastorA.sys, only file
Thanks
BTW, names of drivers i tried: 64bit Intel RSTe AHCI & RAID drivers v11.7.4.1001 WHQL Universal 64bit Intel RST AHCI+RAID driver v11.2.0.1006 mod+signed by Fernando Universal Intel MSM Drivers+Software Set v8.9.8.1005 mod+signed by Fernando Universal Intel RST Drivers+Software Set v11.2.0.1006 mod+signed by Fernando ICH10R SATA Drivers 8.9.0.1023
Offtopic - Are you Portuguese?
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@lpfbs : Thanks for the quick answers to my questions. Due to the fact, that your problem has nothing to do with the thread, where you had posted it, I have moved our discussion into this much better matching thread.
Look into the start post of this thread. At the bottom of it you will find a table, which contains the Intel AHCI drivers, which I recommend to use with an Intel ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller. Nevertheless I think, that the brandnew Win10 in-box MS AHCI driver named STORAHCI.SYS may be the best choice for your specific AHCI system.
Here are my comments to the drivers you have tried:
This is a good, but probably not the best driver for your AHCI system.
You should have used the WHQL certified variant of this driver and not the modded one.
The usage of this completely outdated Drivers & Software Set for your ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller doesn’t make any sense.
See above. Furthermore I generally do not recommend to install any complete “Drivers & Software Set” onto an AHCI system (no benefit, but possibly a performance decrease)
The usage of any MSM driver doesn’t make any sense, if you are running a modern Windows OS like Win10.
so, you are saying that the original windows 10 driver is the best to use? Iseen the table and i already tried the driver which i’m supposed to use (1.17.xx , and it doesnt work) i did use the w10 original driver and it worked for some days. Without upgrading it nor any other driver, i started getting 100% disk usage, that was when i started to try the other drivers.
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No, “may be” is something else than “is”. Only users with an Intel ICH10R AHCI system (I don’t have such system) can compare these drivers and find out the best one.
I doubt, that it doesn’t work with systems like yours. Please explain how you tried to install it and what exactly happened.
i came here Intel RST/RSTe Drivers (newest: v15.7.3.1019 /v5.1.0.1098 WHQL) Downloaded the >Intel RST(e) AHCI/RAID Drivers & Software Set v11.7.4.1001 WHQL< (>MIRROR<) When installing, at the end of the installation says something like 'error, the instalation can not be finished’ Then i used this manual driver >64bit Intel RST(e) AHCI/RAID Drivers v11.7.4.1001 WHQL< (>MIRROR<) went to my pc, device manager, ide/ahci drivers, controller, update controller manually, chose the folder. Istallation successful, reboot, problem persists.
Thanks
edit: checked the windows resource monitoring to see if it was lack of ram causing the ssd usage, never goes above 70% Either way, downloaded memtest, booted from usb and 0 errors found after 2 iterations, so its not a memory problem
SSD HEALTH:
This is what happens - HDD vs Memory, green being the activity in Mb per second and the blue line the actual SSD usage (the 100% spikes that keep happening):
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@lpfbs : Thanks for the additional informations. Since I cannot believe, that all the different drivers you have tested are faulty, I suspect another source of your problems. My advice: Save you most important data and do a fresh OS installation. Don’t forget to unplug all other disk drives (incl. the optical ones) except the target SSD/HDD, before you start with the installation. This way you can (re-)start with a fresh OS without any residues of previous incomplete/faulty driver/software installations. Once the OS is up, run Windows Update. After having the OS up-to-date, check the Device Manager for missing or outdated drivers. Let Windows search for better/newer ones. When everything is running fine and the Device Manager doesn’t show any yellow flagged device, you can shut down your computer and re-connect the other disk drives (incl. the optical ones). If you should recognize any problems, look into the “Event Viewer” of the OS and post, what you will see.
Hello Firstly, thanks for cleaning up my topic Secondly, my windows 10 instalation was 1 week old, so i don´t think there was any problem with it.
I did reinstall the windows 10, installed the 11.7 driver, couldnt install by the setup.exe, same error at the end of the instalation. I did install, once again, manualy, the drivers. Didnt experience any blue screen ever since but im still getting the 100% on one specific game. The blue screens explanation could be the conflict with the drivers / software due to the multiple instalations i tried.
CrystalDiskMark is giving me very good results all round, the computer performance is great and, even tho i cant install the RST software, im beggining to think this not driver related but software related, namely the specific game im talking about. Im going to install 3dmark and run some tests to check if it is isolated.
@lpfbs : Yes, please check the software integrity of the specific game, which gave you the problem. By the way: Don’t try to install any Intel RST Drivers & Software Set. The Intel RST Software is only useful for Intel RAID systems, but not for syystems, whose Intel SATA Controller is running in AHCI mode. Nevertheless I do not understand why you didn’t succeed with the installation of the complete Intel RST(e) Installer Set v11.7.4.1001. I haven’t ever heard about such problem from a user with an on-board Intel ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller.
But it really happened. Either way, i still dont know what driver should i install on windows 10, from what i understanded in your topics, the ‘only’ and recomendable driver was that one i put on link… Maybe i couldnt install because i have selected AHCI instead of RAID in the bios configs. I think that one invalidates the other.
I am looking for the best AHCI drivers for a Series 8 / C220 / Xeon-D broadwell system.
Supermicro offer intel drivers rste 5.0.0.2192 from 2015 (for a Server 2016 system). The drivers themselves are probably a couple of years older. Is there anything more recent, or should I just stick with the Microsoft default?
Hello! I have a SuperMicro X10SAE using the C600+/C220+ chipset with RSTe v4.3.0.1223 on Server 2012 STD x64. I’m trying to use MSP Backup and whenever the program touches the iastorA.sys driver, it completely blue screens the whole server and doesn’t even allow it to auto restart. I’m hoping a newer version of this driver might have some form of a fix in it that stops this issue from happening. I see Intel isn’t officially making newer RSTe drivers for this chipset but I found this post via google and wanted to know what would your advice be on this matter?
@elementalwindx : Please give me some additional informations: 1. With which mode (AHCI/RAID) is your on-board Intel SATA Controller running? 2. Which are the HardwareIDs of your in-use Intel SATA AHCI/RAID Controller (right click onto it > “Properties” > “Details” > “Property” > "HardwareIDs)?
@elementalwindx : Thanks for the requested informations. Unfortunately Intel’s RST “Enterprise Edition” drivers are not the best, especially not for RAID systems. If your mainboard’s BIOS doesn’t offer the option to swith to the RST platform, I recommend to try the Intel RSTe RAID drivers v4.6.0.1048 WHQL and/or the v5.2.0.1194 WHQL ones. You can find the download links within the start post of >this< thread. Good luck!
Ah ok. I’ve tried both of those drivers and this software “MSP Backup” by Solarwinds and Iaso still locks up the entire machine requiring a power off and on. Any idea if there is something that can be tweaked to fix this with the driver? Some setting maybe?
They are at a loss and have no idea what to do. Even their devs.
Also as a little background I know 100% it’s the Intel rste causing this issue. I had another identical server last year that did this. The client ended up installing a lsi raid controller and moving everything over to that and the problem completely went away.
I have a SuperMicro X10SAE using the C600+/C220+ chipset with RSTe v4.3.0.1223 on Server 2012 STD x64. I’m trying to use MSP Backup and whenever the program touches the iastorA.sys driver, it completely blue screens the whole server and doesn’t even allow it to auto restart. I’m hoping a newer version of this driver might have some form of a fix in it that stops this issue from happening. I see Intel isn’t officially making newer RSTe drivers for this chipset but I found this post via google and wanted to know what would your advice be on this matter?