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I have an icon in the lower right tray that says Intel RST Service is not running. What does this mean, do I need to fix it and how do I fix it?
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Hi,
That service is described here: http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/chipsets/Q57/Q57-overview.htm about halfway down the page. It's not essential, but the most likely fix if you do have additional drives is to reload the sata driver from Intel most appropriate to your chipset.
Best of Luck, Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP http://mvp.support.microsoft.com Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
You are talking about something called Intel Rapid Storage Technology (Intel RST). It is a relatively recent (late 2009 / early 2010) successor to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager (IMSM) technology. It was introduced in conjunction with the debut of Windows 7.
Both allow you to configure your computer to use hardware-based RAID (provided you have a supported Intel chipset). See these links on Wikipedia for an overview of RAID concepts and on the Intel website for an overview of Intel's implementation of RAID:
With Intel's implementation of RAID there is a device driver which gets loaded at system startup and then there is a management tool (with a graphical user interface) that you can bring up (once Windows is running) to view the status of your storage volumes, change settings, and deal with problems). The icon you refer to is placed in the notification area by the management tool to indicate the health status of your storage volumes. Normally it would show a picture of a disk drive with a green checkmark ("Status OK") but it will show other things to indicate if there's a problem or if it's doing something like rebuilding a volume.
Anyway, I have encountered the same icon/message on my system (Windows 7 x64 with Intel RST 9.6 installed). On my system it shows up for about 1-2 minutes immediately after Windows starts up and I log in. It eventually changes to the "OK" (green checkmark).
On my system I think it's just a timing problem with the multiplicity of services that startup when Windows itself starts up. I am satisfied that things are OK for me. My issue only began after I upgraded from Intel RST 9.5 to Intel RST 9.6.
I would recommend that you check whether it stays there indefinitely on your system or if it's just temporary (as I've described for my system).
Hope this helps...
Thank you for a more detailed explanation and sites to check. I watched the icon as you suggested and it did turn to green. I also went to my search and put in Intel and found some of the information I wanted. Thanks again.
I already check in task manager and there says it's running
It started to work then it stopped again =(
Are you using Intel RST for RAID or SSD Caching? If RAID, is it RAID 0 or RAID 1? What version of Windows, what version of Intel RST. Have you tried benchmarking your setup to see if it's obvious are not it's working. Have you opened Intel RST (rapid double click on applet to open) to see if it's reported any drives dropping out of array?
Chances are it's working fine and being incorrectly reported. You may want to look for the most recent version of the software, I know there is a lot of older versions floating around there.
The version I'm using is 11.7.0.1013 and it seems pretty stable. I had drives dropping out of array all the time until I figured out I need to turn the fast hibernate function off in windows 8.
