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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
Go to Task Manager and find Intel Rapid Storage Technology under services and if it is Stopped turn it on.
i thought this worked but after a few minutes it stopped again
I have similar setup ASROCK Z77 Fatality, I5-3570k, Windows 8 Pro. I have had many issues with Intel RST drivers. I'm using an SSD cache on my C: drive and a RAID 10 on my 4ea 3tb drives.
It's very wonky. I'll have failure of the RST applet to open on startup, I've had failure to shut down properly. Also have had HDD drop from RAID after a forced shutdown (stuck at system is shutting down) and it will need to rebuild and verify. Sometimes I just cancel the verify because it literally takes days to rebuild with bad disk performance during the process. Just a note, if you firmware update your BIOS you could potentially lose your RAID data, which has happened to me. Basically, unless you have alot of time on your hands and don't care about your data, go for this software RAID solution, otherwise save yourself a headache and buy a large SSD and and external backup drive (same benefits as RAID or better in every respect), for a home power user anyways, I doubt many of you on this post are serving databases to medium and large businesses.
Intel describes several ways of identifying your chipset on the web page referenced below; the easiest way (& the one I would recommend) is for you to download & run their Chipset Identification Utility.
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-009245.htm
It should identify your chipset as something like ICH7R, ICH8R, ICH9R or similar (the "R" designates RAID support).
There is no SATA driver per se; you are probably asking about the Intel RST driver. Intel provides the driver and the storage utility here:
They provide something called an "F6 Floppy Driver" (for use at system install time - i.e. when Installing Windows itself) and the Intel RST Storage Utility (which is installed afterward). To my knowledge, if you have an earlier driver installed, it will be upgraded if/when you upgrade the Storage Utility.
Read the following also; apparently with Windows 7 you don't even need to use the F6 Floppy Driver (the implication is a basic version of this driver is included with Windows 7):
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=18861&lang=eng
Lastly, before trying to upgrade any software, I would suggest that you look into the Storage Utility and see what it's complaining about. The yellow icon indicates a problem (which could be one of several things); you need to open the utility to reveal the details.
If you post back here again, I think it would be good for you to reply with both your chipset version and details of what the issue is.
Thanks for your response. How do I find out which chipset I have in my PC and where do I fing the sata driver? Sorry to be a problem but this is driving me nuts. I hate to have the system not performoing as it is supposed to. Thanks in advance.
