intel SSD drivers

[dryfly]

Biostar 880g+
AMD Phenom 4X
Intel 320 80GB
WD 500GB

Recently installed the Intel SSD and appears to be running fine. AS SSD shows seq read/write as 250/90.

Set the bios to AHCI and all the recommended settings to Win 7 for SSD's.

I did a clean install of Win 7 64bit but did not install the Intel driver for the SSD. Did not install RAID driver as I'm not using a RAID configuration. At this point I assume I'm running native MS drivers for the SSD. Intel SSD Toolbox says it can't communicate with the drive and suggest changing to another driver.

Since the speeds look OK would I benefit from changing drivers at this point? Would it have been more beneficial to have installed the driver on Win 7 install?

thanks,

 

[CrazyChuckster]

just install the latest intel RST drivers and be done with it. i installed win 7 with the native driver then installed the rst drivers and all is good, my system fly's

 

[Coup27]

I didn't know you can install Intel's RST driver on an AMD board?

 

[Makaveli]

I didn't know you can install Intel's RST driver on an AMD board?

You can't

Poster above you didn't read the OP properly.

He clearly stated he is on an AMD rig.

 

[dryfly]

I didn't know you can install Intel's RST driver on an AMD board?

When I made the OP I didn't know this either. So am I stuck with the MS driver? Am I giving up any performance? As I mentioned above it looks like I'm getting max performance now. I just don't know if I am getting the benefit of TRIM.

I would do a forum search on this but for the last couple of days I can't get the search function to work.

 

[Coup27]

Firstly, the default MS driver does support TRIM so you are OK on that front.

AMD make a storage AHCI driver. You can download this from the Biostar website if you go to your board downloads. There maybe a newer one from AMD's site. If this is as fast as Intels, or even MS's I have no clue.

MS's driver is likely to be very compatible at the expense of speed so more systems work out of the box. I would install AMD's driver, reboot and rebench and see what the difference is. Both will support TRIM so its just a matter of speed and stability.

ps - search has been nackered since the forums went down the other day

 

[aigomorla]

u NEED an ich10 or ich11 for RST to work..

RST wont even work on a Ich9.... so u guys expect it to work on a amd board?

 

[Coup27]

so u guys expect it to work on a amd board?

No, one user who got his facts wrong said that.

 

[kbp]

Just go to AMD's web site and download the newest drivers. That's what I did on my last system.

 

[dryfly]

In addition to the onboard video driver AMD lists these RAID and SATA drivers:

South Bridge driver

RAID driver

AHCI driver

Since I've already downloaded and installed the Biostar drivers, should I download and install these AMD drivers over them? If so all three? No need to reinstall Win 7 and then add these driver files?

 

[Mir96TA]

You need to install driver from here

 

[dryfly]

You need to install driver from here

That link takes me to the AMD website where the 3 drivers I mention above are listed. I know I need to install AMD drivers BUT my question is specifically which driver(s) do I need to install???

 

[CrazyChuckster]

yeap my bad I totally missed the OP is using an AMD board.

people still use those

 

[Mir96TA]

Comon Dude........
Win7 AHCI drivers
If you can extract the files you can even get F6 (insert AHCI driver at installation)
Either I can email you or you can copy from extract folders
Path is like this X:\ATI\Support\11-12_win7_32-64_ahci\Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\hseries\AHCI\W764A