New Intel RST 11.7.0.103 question  

Well NoN, it is as you said. I followed exactly what you mentioned and it now looks exactly what you wrote with the exception of msahci. Mine looks like this in the registry;

iaStorA = 0
iaStorF = 0
iaStorV = 3
msahci = 0

(iastor is gone)

I checked in the Device Manager; I looked in both drives, the DVD ROM and the all the entries under the IDE ATA/ATAPI, non are using the msahci so not sure why it is on in my case. Maybe because of the Marvel controller? Not sure. Should I set msahci to 3?

Here is what's in the Device Manager
Each separate drive shows drivers
disk.sys
iastorF.sys (no certificate icon)
partmgr.sys

DVDROM
cdrom.sys
iastorF.sys (no certificate icon)

IDE ATA/ATAPI
there are 2 channel entries; they have atapi.sys and ataport.sys
Intel ICH10R SATA AHCI has both iastorA and F (but these show a certificate icon next to them)
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE controller;
atapi.sys
ataport.sys
pciide.sys
pciidex.sys


In the C:\Windows\system32\drivers folder;
iastorA
iastorF
iastorV
msahci

So I have been running, playing BFBC2, BioShock and others. Used Word, Excel, Adobe; all seems fine. Boot up is about 1-2 seconds faster. I see this at the Windows 7 start point where the colored balls combine to make the Microsoft symbol. Use to hang there for a while, but now it seems that right after the symbol is made it continues without that pause.

I'll run some more programs and I will keep this thread open for another day and I will report back if anything.

Is it just better that when a new IRST is released to follow what you mentioned above, especially if there is also a chipset update?

Thanks for the help and the information. Very appreciated!

So everything has been working fine except one item.

I have HD Sentinel that monitors all my drives. One of the features is that it can display your current read/write activities and by how much. It gives you a history of how much each drive has been written to and read from. Just a lot of good details.

Anyways, that feature is now off. According to their site, for some reason in the registry this feature gets turned off. I can only assume that the newer IRST did this. I say this because I just updated another system (RAID though), I just installed the IRST and all went fine. I did not update the chipset on that one though and the HD Sentinel monitoring is now also off.

I am not saying that this is the root cause, but it seems that it is happening once installed. So just in case anyone else uses HD Sentinel, you might want to take a look.

Again, thank you for your help, this is why I come here.

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