Updating Motherboard Drivers?

Winuser · Oct 18, 2021

After reading a few post suggesting about updating chipset drivers I decided to check for updated drivers for my new desktop. I check and I have the latest Bios so no update is needed. I updated the Intel Chipset drivers and now I'm getting ready to update the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver. During the install it shows that my desktop is using AHCI and recommends to switch to the RST Premium mode. Should I switch or stay in ACHI mode? My Motherboard is the ASROCK Z490 Phantom Gaming 4/ax.

BunnyJ · Oct 18, 2021

I did a fast search and this came up

New system build - AHCI or RST Premium? I'm confused!

Hi all, First of all, I've kind of lost touch a bit with tech in recent years, so this is all new to me. I just put together a new system with an M.2 drive (a 1TB Western Digital SSD) and I've gone to install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers (as I noticed that in Device Manager my...

community.intel.com

From link

HTH

Zardoc · Oct 18, 2021

If you don't use raid or optane, no need. Just use ACHI

Zardoc · Oct 18, 2021

Just to add for NVME PCIE 4 Samsung didn't even bother to create a driver. A lot of users don't even install ant drivers and are satisfied with MS 2006 original drivers. Imagine, 25 year old drivers and they still do the job.

Winuser · Oct 18, 2021

BunnyJ said:
I did a fast search and this came up

New system build - AHCI or RST Premium? I'm confused!

Hi all, First of all, I've kind of lost touch a bit with tech in recent years, so this is all new to me. I just put together a new system with an M.2 drive (a 1TB Western Digital SSD) and I've gone to install the Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers (as I noticed that in Device Manager my...

community.intel.com

From link
View attachment 10534
HTH

1. I don't use RAID.
2. The board doesn't have the Optane Memory module. My old desktop did and I replaced it with a 1GB drive to use as the C: drive.
3. The drive the OS is installed on is a NVMe (PCIe 4x 8.0 GT/s)
If it's not going to improve the performance, I'll stay with AHCI.

Winuser · Oct 18, 2021

Zardoc said:
If you don't use raid or optane, no need. Just use ACHI

I don't use RAID.

CornishRattler · Oct 18, 2021

If you use the RST driver and say want to add a Samsung NVMe then it's pretty much impossible to install the Samsung drivers. That's my experience anyway.

stormy13 · Oct 18, 2021

Zardoc said:
Imagine, 25 year old drivers and they still do the job.

Yeah, 25 year old driver that has the same version number as the version of Windows you are running. Then again I would hope you know why Microsoft dates the default Windows drivers (any and all) that way.

ThrashZone · Oct 18, 2021

Hi,
What does device manager have to say about the chipset driver, IDE.....
Does it list it properly as intel 4k.....or as some generic ahci driver ?

stormy13 · Oct 18, 2021

IDE? When was the last motherboard you saw that had IDE?

RogerOver · Oct 18, 2021

(BIOs) Update (=Flash) could be useful in some cases, because through the update, you could go from TPM 1.2 to TPM 2.0 which is required for WIN 11. But read a lot before doing it !

Update Your Security Processor (TPM) Firmware - Microsoft Support

Learn how to update your security processor or TPM firmware to protect Windows 10 and your device from attacks by malicious software.

support.microsoft.com

ThrashZone · Oct 18, 2021

stormy13 said:
IDE? When was the last motherboard you saw that had IDE?

Hi,
Seeing device managers interface is the same as it's creation it still does lol

Ghot · Oct 18, 2021

AHCI = Another Happy Camper Indeed :)

stormy13 · Oct 18, 2021

Device Manager may still call it that, but getting someone to try and update an IDE driver anymore is almost like sending them on a snipe hunt.

ThrashZone · Oct 18, 2021

stormy13 said:
Device Manager may still call it that, but getting someone to try and update an IDE driver anymore is almost like sending them on a snipe hunt.

Hi,
Well you're making a silly comment about where the chipset driver is listed in device manger

Guess you have some other clever way to tell someone where excactly the chipset driver is list in device manager lol :lmao:

stormy13 · Oct 18, 2021

You may have to point them to the IDE listing, but you certainly don't tell them to update the IDE driver. Give it another 10 years and maybe Microsoft will finally change the naming for it (and that is being generous because if you look in the right places you can find UI settings that are older than XP).

ThrashZone · Oct 18, 2021

stormy13 said:
You may have to point them to the IDE listing, but you certainly don't tell them to update the IDE driver. Give it another 10 years and maybe Microsoft will finally change the naming for it (and that is being generous because if you look in the right places you can find UI settings that are older than XP).

Hi,
I did not say update IDE lol
Maybe read my response slower

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
What does device manager have to say about the chipset driver, IDE.....
Does it list it properly as intel 4k.....or as some generic ahci driver ?

Winuser · Oct 18, 2021

ThrashZone said:
Hi,
What does device manager have to say about the chipset driver, IDE.....
Does it list it properly as intel 4k.....or as some generic ahci driver ?

Device Manager only shows the Standard SATA AHCI Controller.

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