What is Intel INF?

[nothereanymore]

Is it kind of an all-in-one program that finds and downloads drivers for your motherboard? Mine is the Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7. Under Chipset, there is "Intel Management Engine Interface'"  and "Intel INF installation". Which do I install?

 

As for SATA:

 

Intel SATA Preinstall driver (for AHCI/RAID Mode)

 

Intel Rapid Storage Technology 

 

ASMedia SATA Driver

 

and MSoft Framework (already installed).

 

Should I just install all of them?

[GoodBytes]

"INF" are the drivers extracted from the setup. Basically there is no .exe in it to run to install. You only have a script file (.inf), which you can right-click and pick "Install".

 

The INF drivers are needed in the case you need to install your SATA controller drivers during Windows setup process. At this stage, as Windows is not installed, it can't run .exe's and it can't extract .zip files and so on. You are about to install Windows. So, if you need to install your SATA controller driver during Windows setup in order to install Windows properly without issue, or simply detect your drive if it doesn't. You can add the extracted files on a USB flash drive or disk, and at the appropriate stage of the setup click on "Load Drivers", and pick them, and Windows will install them, and now your drive should be detected, or the install process should now complete properly.

 

 

[nothereanymore]

3 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

"INF" are the drivers extracted from the setup. Basically there is no .exe in it to run to install. You only have a script file (.inf), which you can right-click and pick "Install".

 

The INF drivers are needed in the case you need to install your SATA controller drivers during Windows setup process. At this stage, as Windows is not installed, it can't run .exe's and it can't extract .zip files and so on. You are about to install Windows. So, if you need to install your SATA controller driver during Windows setup in order to install Windows properly without issue, or simply detect your drive if it doesn't. You can add the extracted files on a USB flash drive or disk, and at the appropriate stage of the setup click on "Load Drivers", and pick them, and Windows will install them, and now your drive should be detected, or the install process should now complete properly.

 

 

So if Windows is already installed without issue, I don't need it? What about the other drivers?

[GoodBytes]

9 minutes ago, Noirgheos said:

So if Windows is already installed without issue, I don't need it? What about the other drivers?

Install them if you have performance problem, but Windows should have installed the correct ones.

 

Open Device Manager, and see what is marked with a "!" or "?" mark next to them, or that it using Generic drivers, and you have lack of features out of the hardware, or performance problems.

[nothereanymore]

1 minute ago, GoodBytes said:

Install them if you have performance problem, but Windows should have installed the correct ones.

 

Open Device Manager, and see what is marked with a "!" mark, or using Generic drivers, and you have lack of features out of the hardware, or performance problems.

Seems like the PC itself has one. Guess this is Chipset. Intel Management Engine Interface should be the correct one?

[GoodBytes]

Just now, Noirgheos said:

Seems like the PC itself has one. Guess this is Chipset. Intel Management Engine Interface should be the correct one?

I don't know, as I don't know what you see. But probably.

[nothereanymore]

2 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

I don't know, as I don't know what you see. But probably.

It said Fatal Error during install. Guess I have it installed. I checked and the ethernet controllers have the ! symbol.

 

Fatal error probably means windows auto downloaded it right?

[GoodBytes]

No. I means that there is an error that is so bad that the software (setup program in your case) doesn't know how to handle it to resume.

 

[nothereanymore]

2 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

No. I means that there is an error that is so bad that the software (setup program in your case) doesn't know how to handle it to resume.

 

Hmm I'll restart and try again.

[GoodBytes]

8 minutes ago, Noirgheos said:

Hmm I'll restart and try again.

See if there is any log files as well, and look at the end of the log, if there is a more detailed error message, then "Something happened"-type error.

 

[nothereanymore]

1 minute ago, GoodBytes said:

See if there is any log files as well, and look at the end of the log, if there is a more detailed error message, then "Something happened"-type error.

 

Error while installing estimated application size column: 2

 

It shows that in IntelME.