How to get a list of installed drivers?

derekimo said:

Have you looked under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers?

That's the first place I looked, and I expected to see something like what you showed. Instead I see:


yet Windows say I have some level of the Intel driver installed:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorA

ImagePath

System32\drivers\iaStorA.sys

Kbird said:

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istorA.sys I think is for Raid systems while istor.sys is for AHCI systems ...see Derekimo's post above in his pic, looks like he is still running version 10.X.X.X , on an AHCI system istorA.sys wont be active.

Oh. I'm using ACHI, not Raid. So that means the driver is installed but not used? Then I'll try installing the recommended driver.

Kbird said:

Fernando recommends version 11.2.0.1006 for just about every Chipset but the table in the 1st post makes it easy to decide.

Hmm. With my level of knowledge I didn't find anything in the Fernando posts particularly easy to understand. I thought he said that for Intel 8 series chipsets that 13.2.4.1000 was the preferred driver and that 11.2.0.1006 might not run. The Belarc Advisor says I've got Intel Series 8 C220 chipset.

pokeefe0001 said:

That's the first place I looked, and I expected to see something like what you showed. Instead I see:


yet Windows say I have some level of the Intel driver installed:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStorA

ImagePath

System32\drivers\iaStorA.sys

Hi , yes you are using the Microsoft AHCI Driver at the moment , the 11.2.0.1006 Driver is the recommended Raid Driver even in Win10 for many, for your z87 the best AHCI is the 13.XXXX series Drivers looking at the table.

Intel Chipset/Southbridge:	Recommended AHCI driver:	Recommended RAID driver:
Intel ICH7R/M, ICH8R/M and ICH9R/M	Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL only for ICH7R/M and ICH9M modded Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 for all of them	Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL
Intel P45 and X58 Chipset/ICH10R	Intel RST(e) v11.7.4.1001 WHQL	Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL (best performance) or Intel RST(e) v11.7.4.1001 WHQL (newer)
Intel 5-Series Chipsets (like P55)	Intel RST(e) v11.7.4.1001 WHQL or Intel RST(e) v12.9.4.1000 WHQL	Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL (best performance) or Intel RST(e) v12.9.4.1000 WHQL (much newer)
Intel 6-Series Chipsets (like P67 or Z68)	Intel RST(e) v12.9.4.1000 WHQL	Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL (best performance) or Intel RST(e) v12.9.4.1000 WHQL (much newer)
Intel 7-Series Chipsets (like Z77)	Intel RST(e) v13.1.0.1058 WHQL	Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL (best performance) or Intel RST(e) v13.1.0.1058 WHQL (much newer)
Intel 8- and 9-Series Chipsets (like Z87 or Z97)	Intel RST(e) v13.1.0.1058 WHQL or Intel RST(e) v13.2.4.1000 WHQL	Intel RST(e) v13.2.4.1000 WHQL or Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL
Intel 100-Series Chipsets (like Z170)	Intel RST(e) v14.8.9.1053 WHQL	Intel RST(e) v14.8.9.1053 WHQL
Intel X79 Chipsets	Intel RST(e) v13.1.0.1058 WHQL	Intel RST v11.2.0.1006 WHQL (best performance) or Intel RST(e) v13.1.0.1058 WHQL (much newer) Note: Both options require the RST BIOS mode.
Intel X99 Chipsets	Intel RST(e) v13.1.0.1058 WHQL or Intel RST(e) v14.8.9.1053 WHQL	Intel RST(e) v13.1.0.1058 WHQL or Intel RST(e) v14.8.9.1053 WHQL Note: Both options require the RST BIOS mode.

Have fun!
Fernando

I've just done some very unsuccessful experimenting.

I installed driver 13.2.4.1000.
It made my original problem far worse. Files were loaded in spurts for about 30 seconds and then completely stopped. The program reported 52% of the files had been loaded. That did not change for another 30 seconds so I killed the program and rolled back the driver. In the Event Log I saw

1. About 20 iaStorA eventid 129 errors (Reset to device, \Device\RaidPort0, was issued) were logged,
2. followed by event id 7040 The start type of the Microsoft Standard SATA AHCI Driver service was changed from demand start to boot start.)
3. followed by a flood of Kernel PnP eventid 225 errors (The application x with process id n stopped the removal or ejection for the device PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_8C02&SUBSYS_85341043&REV_04\3&11583659&0&FA.)

I think the 225 events happened after I killed the program trying to load the files, but I'm not sure.
I rolled back the driver.

Since I'm not using Raid, and was not using any removable drives at the moment, I decided this was not a good situation.

I installed driver 131.0.1058.
I got only 17% of the files loaded before they stopped loading.
No iastor errors, but but the 7040 error and the flood of 225 errors were there.
I rolled back the driver.

Just for grins I tried installing the 11.2.0.1006, but Windows said I was more current.

I'm not sure what to do now, but I've definitely concluded that the driver level can cause the file loading problem I've got. At the very least I can make the problem much worse.

Kbird said:

Yes the best driver is not always the latest by intel , which is why I check Fernando's site when I do a reinstall.

http://www.win-raid.com/t25f23-Which...D-drivers.html



istorA.sys I think is for Raid systems while istor.sys is for AHCI systems ...see Derekimo's post above in his pic, looks like he is still running version 10.X.X.X , on an AHCI system istorA.sys wont be active.

Fernando recommends version 11.2.0.1006 for just about every Chipset but the table in the 1st post makes it easy to decide.

Are you sure? Both of my PCs which do not have RAID had the driver istorA.sys installed.

Steve C said:

Are you sure? Both of my PCs which do not have RAID had the driver istorA.sys installed.

Both my systems are using Raid , one on 11.7 and the other on 11.2 and the 11.7 (x58) system is using iastorA by the look , but not 100%positive....

hmmmm is istorA different from iastorA.sy perhaps? or is that a typo?

will do some reading at WinRaid....

In regards to my raid systems , so far I found this in the thread about issues with Win10 (me ...I did the nlite 11.2.0.1006 thing after 2-3 broken Win10 installs )

This is talk about RAID....not AHCI
All MS Operating Systems from Win8 up do contain a new generic Intel RST(e) RAID driver v12.0.1.1019 (Win8) resp. v13.2.0.1022 (Win10) named iaStorAV.sys, which is used by the OS as the DEFAULT Intel RAID driver for all Intel platforms from ICH8R up.

Users with an Intel RAID system may run into severe problems, when they try to "downgrade" the already running in-box Intel RAID driver or any other previously installed Intel RST(e) RAID driver from v11.5 up (named iaStorA.sys) to a "classical" Intel RST RAID driver named iaStor.sys (latest version: v11.2.0.1006). According to my own experience you may get an unbootable and unrepairable system after having done such Intel RAID driver "downgrade".