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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
Thank you Rick. I only have one drive on my Laptop, so I guess it's not that important then but out of interest i will go where you suggest and see if I can do anything. I am in the near future going to purchase a tower and also a portable hard drive, so that will come in useful and I will print your reply out for reference-. Thanks again :~) xxx
Hi, i don't know if it's in services, i found it in device manager
hi..... do you know what the intel rapid storage technology is titled under services??? i cant seem to find it.
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...
After reading other solutions, and then reading your second paragraph above, I went back one more time to see it it had resolved by itself. As you mentioned, it cleared up so I have nothing else to do. Thanks for an eye opener.
