I am running Windows 10 on a Desktop, which is a HP Compaq Presario SR5610F, Motherboard FK586AA-ABA SR5610F, BIOS is Phoenix Award (BIOS ID: -MCP61P-IVY-00, BIOS OEM: v - 5.14), and SATA Controller is NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller (NVIDIA Driver is 11.1.0.29). Upgrading the driver of the AMD AHCI Compatible RAID controller to the recommended 3.2.1540.92 version helps in such situations. Alternative solution. In the worst case, you may try to install the 'Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller' driver. This is a built-in driver in Windows so there is no need to manually download and extract. SATA Drivers Update Hi all, I noticed after a clean install of Win 10 Pro that in the Device Manager I had two 'Standard SATA AHCI Controller' entries that showed the driver dated in 2006.
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I have a question which I have been pondering about. I have an OCZ Vertex 3 SSD and using an Intel P67 based motherboard. Everything is working perfectly. My question is more for educational purposes.
When installing a new SSD into a system, I have read that the storage controller mode needs to be set to AHCI (NOT IDE/legacy or RAID) - correct me if I am wrong here?
Further to this, once one has installed the OS one would start with drivers as usual. This includes chipset driver's and so forth... Now on Vista & Windows 7, the OS uses the Microsoft generic AHCI driver (Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller) for the storage controller. This generic driver will be updated once Intel's latest chipset drivers are installed (e.g. Intel ICHXX/XX/XX X Port SATA AHCI Controller - XXXX, where 'X' will be different depending on your storage controller).
One also has the option to install Intel's RST (Rapid Storage Technology) driver & application. This driver usually updates or replaces the generic windows driver (if any) or even the Intel chipset driver as mentioned above.
Now, this is where my actual question comes in.... whats the difference between Intel's AHCI driver loaded via the chipset driver setup and the one used by the Intel RST setup? Furthermore, which one should one use and why?