Tons of people have the same problem, worked for this guy https://www.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comme…ezes_caused_by/ it’s how I got here
And I’ve been looking for a solution for a year
@NKLhaxor :
Without any knowledge about your system and your special settings I cannot help you to solve your problem.
My advice: Set all BIOS settings to DEFAULT. Then do a real install of your prefered OS. Once everythig runs (all Updates and missing drivers are added), look what happens. If your system should still show the current issues, check all your hardware components one after the other (don’t forget the PSU!). If the hardware is ok, check the Intel Management Engine Firmware and driver.
Dear Fernando,
First of all thank you for your big effort in making these great drivers and making everything things better.
Was reading some of your posts and from others to and I see that there is lot of stuff here which is more than great, but I got little lost in searching for the right info (drivers to download). I am having rather an old board P67 Extreme4 Gen3 running on WIN10 64bit so I was searching for the drivers,for my SATA Controllers which are compatible with win10. What drivers would you recommend, must I download and install RST or just AHCI drivers? I am having issues with my SSD and my other mechanical drive which is seen as removable hardware in sys tray. Hope you can help.
Best regards
@ljevu :
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
You can find the answer to your question within the start post of >this< thread. Don’t forget to look into the table, which is near the bottom of the related post.
Good luck!
Dieter (alias Fernando)
OK, thanks. Just wondering, table related, I found this driver ">64bit Intel RST(e) AHCI/RAID Drivers v12.9.4.1000 WHQL<" but does it support WIN10 system or should I go for modded version?
What is a “WIN10 system“? The WHQL certified Intel RST(e) drivers definitively do support your Intel 6-Series Chipset system.
Sorry I meant my OS, Operating system Windows 10 X64. I am asking because on Asrock site last RST driver was for Win7.
@ljevu :
1. All Intel RST/RST(e) AHCI and RAID drivers, which natively do support the related on-board Intel SATA Controller, are working fine with Win7, Win8 and Win10.
2. The mainboard manufacturers usually do not offer the latest drivers and do not test different drivers to find out, which one may be the best for the related mainboard.
By the way: I have moved our discussion into this better matching thread.
Ok I’ll try v12.9.4.1000. I see that it needs to be updated manually, which file is for AHCI as I’m going tu use only that mode?
You should choose the file named iaAHCIC.inf.
Hi, I just updated the drivers and it went well, now my SSD-logical and other mechanical disc is no longer in system tray as removable device. Should I try RST software, would there be any benefits with it in my case.
Once again thank you for your time and help.
best regards
No, for AHCI users I do not recommend to install the Intel RST Software. You will not get any benifit, but may suffer under the negative impact on your system performance due to the services, which are running in the background.
Ok, after a HUGE fiasco with the latest Fall Creator’s Update (1709), I’ve had to reinstall my entire system. Everything is finally working ok, except for the Intel SATA ports. System is an Asus Sabertooth X99 board.
Tried installing RST, but it says incompatible platform. Any ideas?
Thanks!
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Ok, newer version of RST installed ok, but I still can’t see the drives. Instead of the “normal” value it used to show, now it shows 2 different values -
Intel(R) 9 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller
and
Intel(R) C610 series/X99 chipset sSATA AHCI Controller - 8D62
Computer, instead of listing AHCI, lists ACPI x64-based PC.
NOTHING in the BIOS has changed.
According to the mobo layout, it is SATA ports 7, 8, 9, & 10 that are affected.
Again, thanks for any assistance!
@DeathStalker :
X99 Chipset mainboards have 2 different Intel SATA Controllers, which need different sorts of Intel SATA AHCI/RAID drivers.
AFAIK the SATA ports from 1-6 need an Intel RST SATA AHCI/RAID driver (example: Intel RST(e) v14 platform drivers), whereas the ports from 8 up need an Intel RSTe sSATA AHCI/RAID driver (example: Intel RSTe v5 platform drivers).
For details please have a look into >this< thread.
Posted over in that thread for some specific responses. Not sure how to install one driver for each controller 
(or which versions are most appropriate). Nothing is RAID.
Hello everyone.
I found this thread, when I trying to install proper Intel software to my X99 system, running under Windows 8.1
I found this forum very intersting and learned a lot about SATA controllers on my mobo. But still have compatibility issue, that I trying to describe in my post.
On the fist X99 controller (that support RAID mode) I have one SSD and one HDD drive. This controller run in RAID mode.
Part of SSD (64Gb) allocated for caching slow HDD drive, using Intel Smart Rsponse technology.
On the rest of my SSD I install Windows 8.1 OS
On the second X99 controller I have several HDD drive attached. This controller run in AHCI mode.
First of all I install whole IntelRST package v14 to support and manage my caching (RAID) configuration.
Up to this moment everyting work fine, but second controller still run under default Microsoft driver and was not too fast.
According to this thread I download Intel RSTe v5 platform drivers (drivers only) and manually upgrade drivers for second controller via Device Manager. Drivers installed without issue, and I can see “Intel(R) C600+/C220+ series chipset sSATA AHCI Controller” in Device Manager with no error. But, after that moment, I cannot launch Intel Rapid Storage software to mange my RAID array, because of error: Prgram IAStorUI was terminated.
I was trying differnt scenario to install and reinstall drivers for both controllers, but with no luck. I can’t launch Intel RST software, when two drivers installed in my system (V14 for first controller and V5 for second), despite I have no error in Device Manager.
I don’t want to leave second controller under default microsoft drivers, becuase of low performance, and don’t want lose the ability to manage my RAID-array via Intel Rapid utility. But I have no idea how to make them together…
@Maestr0 :
Welcome to the Win-RAID Forum!
Maybe it was not a good idea to use the meanwhile outdated Intel Smart Response Technology (SRT) with your X99 system. My recommendation is to replace the SRT configuration of your onboard Intel SATA Controller (ports 1-6) by a single, but bigger sized SATA SSD running in AHCI mode (or - even better - using an NVMe SSD as system drive).
Since I am not an expert regarding the best HDD/SSD configuration of an X99 chipset system, you should better ask an experienced X99 chipset user like 100PIER for a solution of your specific problem.
Good luck!
Regards
Dieter (alias Fernando)
@100PIER :
Can you help?
Thanks in advance!
@Fernando :
Thanks for you recommendation. I aslo thinking about that. But big SSD is not really cheap. My working HDD volume around 4Tb and Solid State Drive for such size will cost more than whole system. I use Intel SRT since X77 chipset coming out and find it very handy. It’s work brilliant with frequently used data, and it’s work on my current X99 system also, but only until I install Intel drivers for second X99 SATA controller.
@Maestro,
As a X99 user (Sabertooth X99) I can help you even if do use W10 x64 RS3 instead of W8.1.
1) Does your BIOS updated ? (on my X99 PC i have v3801 modded withthe last µCode for Haswell-E for Spectre protection).
2) As Fernando does recommend you the iSRT feature is not the best choice. I don’t use it and SATA or NVMe SSD is the best performant solution. I do use also NVMe third party RAID 0 storage solution as well NVMe single device solution and as well SATA RAID 0 structures.
3) Yes, I get the same Error as you when trying to manage RAID via iRST Software. This piece of Intel software is not working on this kind of machine. I got a crash when I launch this application. Have a look at Windows Reliability Report, you should have a crash logged for each attempt to do. So, forget this application !
4) For managing RAID, the only way is under BIOS menu settings.
5) However the BIOS does not properly manage RAID with more than 2 devices. For instance if you build a RAID 0 with 3 SATA SSDs devices such as Samsung 840PRO it is working fine, and stable, but if you plan to modd your BIOS (back to BIOS default values) the RAID0 does fail (one member of the Raid is ‘lost’). You have to manuallt delete the recreate the RAID structure. It is ‘ennoying’ if your RAID 0 is your backup storage…
For RAID limited to two devices no problems even after BIOS modding the RAID is never destroyed.
Hope this does help you.
@100PIER :
1) Yes, I recently update my BIOS to latest version. Everything work fine. But BIOS updating do not affect on Option ROM, look like there is no way to update it.
2) Of course using only SSD or RAID massive with SSD (even JBOD) giving the best performance, but It’s cost too much, when it comes to large volume (at least for present time).
3) Very sad to hear that. I think it is good idea to add this info to corresponding tread. I read tons of your post in this forum according X99 chipset and find it very usefull, but there is no word about such issue. I believe you can run this software after deleting “Intel(R) C600+/C220+ series chipset sSATA AHCI Controller” from Device Manager (with files removing charcking chekbox). Problem exist only if you install it back by upgrading Default Microsoft SATA-drivers via Device Manager.
4) First of all there is no way to setup caching volume on fresh (clean) SSD using Option ROM tiny program. I thinks it’s usefull only for properly destroing RAID massive or detaching HDD from caching volume (in case if you can’t do it in Windows or Windows failed to start). Create RAID valumes, making Cache volume and changing it’s settings much better under Windows environment.
5) You right, Option ROM tiny program very bugy. Only (safe) way to manage RAID volumes that I found, it’s temporary delete Intel RSTe drivers for second X99 SATA-controller, switching back to Default Microsoft drivers and launch Intel RST from Windows environment. Any changes that was making in that program will permanently save (most settings store on the SSD/HDD drivers in it’s firts sectors). Than you can switch back to the Intel RSTe drivers for second X99 SATA controller and forget about Intel RST software.
But maybe somone find the way how to run it together (Intel RST software and Intel RSTe drivers on the second SATA controller), because It’s definitely software issue, not hardware.