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I'm getting some drivers and other installation files ready for a fresh Windows 10 installation on my X99 gaming rig (specs. are in my signature) and I'm wondering which drivers I need to download. The Asus downloads page isn't exactly clear to understand.

 

Here is a link to the drivers download page in question: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/X99DELUXE/HelpDesk_Download/

 

1. under the "chipset" section, do I need "chipset ver 10.1.2.8", "MEI ver 11.0.0.1155", or both?

 

2. under the "sata" section, do I need "Asmedia SATA controller ver 3.1.6.0", "IRST ver 14.5.0.1081", or both? Worth mention here is that I do have 2 SSD's in my rig, but I'm not using any RAID settings, they are operating independently from one another.

 

The rest of the drivers I'm pretty comfortable with. I have a Gigabyte motherboard in my HTPC and the driver download page for it is much more user friendly. The Asus page seems to be much more disorganized.

 

Thanks for any direction. 

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I'm getting some drivers and other installation files ready for a fresh Windows 10 installation on my X99 gaming rig (specs. are in my signature) and I'm wondering which drivers I need to download. The Asus downloads page isn't exactly clear to understand.

 

Here is a link to the drivers download page in question: http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/X99DELUXE/HelpDesk_Download/

 

1. under the "chipset" section, do I need "chipset ver 10.1.2.8", "MEI ver 11.0.0.1155", or both?

 

2. under the "sata" section, do I need "Asmedia SATA controller ver 3.1.6.0", "IRST ver 14.5.0.1081", or both? Worth mention here is that I do have 2 SSD's in my rig, but I'm not using any RAID settings, they are operating independently from one another.

 

The rest of the drivers I'm pretty comfortable with. I have a Gigabyte motherboard in my HTPC and the driver download page for it is much more user friendly. The Asus page seems to be much more disorganized.

 

Thanks for any direction. 

You need all four. 

Your board has more than one chipset. IRST is the Intel Sata Chipset. Asmedia is the Asmedia Sata chipset. MEI is the Intel Management Engine driver, and Chipset is the intel chipset .inf installer.

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You need all four. 

Your board has more than one chipset. IRST is the Intel Sata Chipset. Asmedia is the Asmedia Sata chipset. MEI is the Intel Management Engine driver, and Chipset is the intel chipset .inf installer.

Almost agree with you. Except the bolded part. IRST stands for Intel Rapid Start Technology and isn't really driver. Its for HDD software side speed boosting.

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Almost agree with you. Except the bolded part. IRST stands for Intel Rapid Start Technology and isn't really driver. Its for HDD software side speed boosting.

RST does install a driver for the SATA controller though. If the OP plans on running just vanilla AHCI without RAID, then he should be fine without it. I've seen some boards that marks it as an unknown device in device manager if it isn't installed though, so it may vary. 

 

IE: iastorf.sys is a Intel RST driver:

 

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So....general consensus is to install all four. For future reference, is it generally a good idea to install every driver listed for a particular motherboard?

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So....general consensus is to install all four. For future reference, is it generally a good idea to install every driver listed for a particular motherboard?

Usually, yes. There are a few exceptions though; EG: if Windows automatically installed a newer driver than what is listed on the motherboard vendor's website.

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