Hello,
I'm using older Foxconn mainboard with Intel 925XE chipset, ICH6R north bridge. I was using it fine with Windows XP 64bit with RAID1 mirror from 2 disks.
Recently I moved to Windows 7 64bit and I'm unable to find working matrix storage manager for this OS, as well newer driver except the one which is included in OS (iaStorV.sys 8.6.2.1012).
I tried Intel Matrix Storage Manager 8.8.0.1009, then 8.9.0.1023 as well 9.6.0.1014 but all fail with message
"This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software"
Per http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProdId=2101&DwnldID=18859&lang=eng
the page mentions i925 and ICH6R as SUPPORTED but I'm still getting the error above. I also tried to extract only the drive with -a switch and the driver files were also not accepted by OS, inside inf files there is mentioned only ICH7R and above, so no ICH6R. Why then at the download page is mentioned i925/ICH6R are supported in this package...
The version 7.0.0.1020 I was using fine in XP doesn't install in Windows7 as well.
Can you please advice if there is some working storage manager for Windows 7 64bit and the ICH6R chip to have monitored the status of the RAID array, rebuild, etc.?
Thanks,
Eugen