U410 rapid start re-install issue - seriously Lenovo...

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Seriously guys, I can't use my 3 days old laptop. Some help would be mostly appreciated. At this point, the network connection issue doesn't show up anymore, it's just a blank screen after reboot. I reinstall windows and do it all over again just to achieve the same result.
Now couple of things caught my attention: as I load the "6flpy-x64.zip" driver from step 14, I get a message saying I need to install signed drivers, because unsigned ones are likely to mess up the system.
Secondly, I could not find any Rapid Storage Technology drivers for Windows 7 (particularly for U310 model), so I use the Windows 8 ones (http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031455), which seems a silly thing, yet I know of no alternatives.
Could it be any of these issues to cause my problem? Or smth else? Please help!

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U410 "rapid start technology not enables"; won't shut down; touchpad problems...

Having a bit of a nightmare at the moment with my (three month old!) U410 Ultrabook. When it turns on it takes an ABSOLUTE AGE, and then I get a popup saying "Your system does not appear to have Intel Rapid Start Technology enabled." Then if I try to shut it down normally, it just sort of goes to sleep and I can only tun it off properly with the power button. In the past few days, the scrolling function of the touchpad stopped working.
I have several important deadlines approaching and all this is really interfering with my work.
Can anyone offer solutions?

hi Aoife,
Welcome to the Forums.
If the Ideapad U410 is configured with Windows 8 and runs on an HDD+mSATA SSD drive then your issue might be somewhat similar to this thread.
When the machine boots up, it caches data and enables Intel Rapid Start Technology on the mSATA SSD. To ensure everything is configured correctly, try to check if:
1. The mSATA SSD is detected under the BIOS
2. Data caching is enabled via Intel Smart Respose Technology, check this guide on how to reconfigure it. If data caching is enabled via Expresscache, try opening a command prompt and type eccmd -info. You should see an output similar to this image.
3. Intel Rapid Start Technology is configured as in this guide.
Alternatively, you may also want to run an error scan on the drive by using HD Tune or similar utility and observe.
Let me know your findings
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U410 Rapid Start, Smart Response setup from scratch

Hi!
I have a question about the built-in Intel's Rapid Start and Smart Response technology in my U410 notebook.
The problem is that I've managed to "reset" the SSD cache drive so the raid array and the partitions are lost.
I've tried to restore the drive structure by creating a 8GB hibernation partition, with diskaprt (on basic disk, create partition primary size=8192 id=84). After that the Rapid Start works fine. Next I've used the Intel Rapid Storage Manager utitlity to create the acceleration for a partition on the HDD. There were two option for that, the firts one is to use 18,6 GB for cacheing, the second one was to use the whole drive (max. 64GB). Chosing the second option did nothing exept throwing an error, the firts option created the cache array with the following structure:
Array_0000:
- Volume_001: 11GB (data)
- Volume_002: 19GB (cache)
In the widows drive manager the hibernation partition appeard on Volume_001 with another unallocated 3GB partition.
The original setup was (without having the 3GB unallocated space):
Array_0000:
- Volume_001: 8GB (data)
- Volume_002: 22GB (cache)
The question is, how can I create the original array structure, for using the two menitoned technoligies, without loosing 3GB caching space, filling the whole remaining space for caching?
I hope I was clear about the probelm Any help appreaciaed!
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Got some reply from Intel:
This cannot be done by the end-user with the current production version of the Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver (I assume that they are using the 11.0 production version of Intel® Rapid Storage Technology driver). This has been fixed in the next release version 11.5 (PV WW28 – 32). The only option for end-user to reconfigure the SSD with cache + data is to select 18.6GB for the cache which will create 11GB for the data area of the SSD. The correct sequence of steps for restoring the CacheSSD with the Intel® Rapid Start Technology partition:
1.       Launch the Intel® RST GUI and click the ‘Acceleration’ button at the top of the GUI
2.       Click Enable acceleration
3.       Select the SSD and 18.6GB for the Cache size (this will create a cache volume size 18.6GB + data volume size 11GB)
4.       Select the Acceleration mode (Maximized or Enhanced) and complete the Acceleration.
5.       Once the Acceleration-enabling operation is complete you can partition any portion of the 11GB data volume for Intel® Rapid Start Technology
Note: The user can select any size of the 11GB data volume that they wish for the Rapid Start partition. Any space unused can be partitioned in Disk Manager for additional data storage space. As far as performance, there should not be much difference if any between the cache size of 18.6GB and the original 22GB.

Lenovo S400 error in installing Rapid start technology

I recently installed windows 8 on my laptop all drivers were installed perfectly except Intel Rapid Start Technology, on installing it is showing that your system doesn't meet the minimum requirement. Also the action center is showing install driver for power management and card reader which I have already installed but still it is continuously showing this message.

hi madhurgandhi,
Welcome to the Forums.
Installing the Intel Rapid Start Technology requires an Intel Rapid Start feature in the BIOS. Upon looking, this is not included in the S400's BIOS so this software will not work.
As for the power management and card reader notifications, are these the drivers that you installed?
Realtek Card Reader Driver
Version: 6.2.9200.39044
Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit)
Lenovo Energy Management
Version: 8.0.2.3
Windows 8 (32-bit, 64-bit)
AFAIK, If the card reader and the energy management softwares are both instaled and working without any errors, you should be fine.
Regards
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Issues with Intel Rapid Start in Lenovo U310

I have a lenovo U310 with 500 GB HDD and 24 GB SSD. Both drive are working fine. However, when I boot my computer and reach to the desktop, I receive the error saying Intel Rapid Start Technology is not enabled. When I checked the BIOS, the Partition type for iRST appears to be INVALID. Also, I tried to download and install the driver for iRST from the Lenovo website. It installed properly, but at the end it said install the driver and finish. When I hit the finish button, I received the error saying the minimum requirements are not met.
So, I have 24 GB SSD installed. But why am I getting the error and how to fix it?
Help will be very much appreciated

The B85 supports Intel Rapid Start Technology, see one of the user guides on intel site, but it needs BIOS support.
The B85M gaming don't have it on specs page but looking at it's manual it has rapid start settings in BIOS.

Lenovo U310: Clean Windows 7 Installation Guide (including Rapid Start and Caching)

Hi there,
this is the first time that I am writing such a guide/tutorial/whatever you may call it – there are probably better ones, but though not being a total computer noob, it took me almost one week to get this pretty (now again) little beast running again. So hopefully this helps some others to avoid such stupid downtimes.
A brief overview on what has happened to my original win 7 Home Premium:
As some may know, this laptop is very well usable as a “Hackintosh” called Macbook clone. So that’s what I did. It turned out to be nice, but I wanted to go back to Windows after a while, using a clean W7 Pro installation to start over. Actually an easy task, format all drives, install Windows, be happy. Just as I had been doing this for years. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a real challenge. First, I couldn’t “see” my drives during installation (and thus not install), then I got random errors during installation aborting it at different points and finally rapid start and caching didn’t work. Every time I tried to activate them (after Win installation), it crashed my PC. I even found an (official Lenovo!) guide stating to install W7 on the SSD, which worked, but sucks due to space limitations. Oh and another very nice thing: The SSD showed up during WIN installation (but not the classical hard drive) stating it was about 60 GB. So as you can see, I have had a lot of different tries and errors. Why I didn’t use Lenovo Easy Recover? As said before, I erased all partitions…
Before we start: If you have a good Windows running on the Laptop, do yourself a favor and disconnect the RAID 0 disks using the Intel Rapid Storage Application before(!!!) proceeding. It will make things much easier. And don’t forget to get all you data on an external drive or something.
Ok, now let’s start.
1.)    Prepare a USB Stick with the following driver
         http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=21730 (choose f6flpy-x64.zip If you’re running a
         64-bit system (standard nowadays), take f6flpy-x86.zip if it is a 32-bit Windows, just download and copy them
         into the stick’s root directory) and plug this stick in one of the left side USB ports.
2.)    You’ll need Win 7 on either a DVD (plus external drive, for sure) or (bootable) USB stick
3.)    Connect your drive/stick (with W7) to the right side USB port.
4.)    Switch the computer on, immediately hit FN and F2. That will open the BIOS.
5.)    In the BIOS, navigate to the very right section (“save and exit”) and navigate the cursor to “load setup defaults”.
         Hit enter to approve.
6.)    After that, go to the “boot” tab and disable UEFI-boot.
7.)    Next, go one more tab to the left and set the controller setting to RAID (NOT AHCI or Compatible!!!).
8.)    Navigate the cursor down to “Intel Rapid Start” and hit enter. A submenu will pop up-
9.)    Disable the first entry in that window, that will make the rest be disabled as well.
10.) Navigate to the very right tab, this time hit save and exit.
11.) The PC restarts.
12.) Immediately hit FN and F12 to open the boot selection menu. Select to boot from your W7 DVD drive or USB
        stick.
13.) Click yourself through the whole process of installing Windows 7 until the page comes up where you will have
        to select where to install it.
14.) Click on “load drivers” and after a few seconds your downloaded driver should be there. Click ok to use them.
        Please do this step even if you can see your drives (SSD Disk 0, 32 GB and HDD Disk 1, 465(<-?) GB) as you
        would expect them – otherwise you’re very likely to get an error during the install process.
15.) Now erase all partitions on both drives and select the HDD as the drive to install W7 to – NOT THE SSD!!!!!
        Seriously, don’t choose the SSD.
16.) Windows will probably say that some extra partitions are necessary and so on, click ok and install Windows.
17.) After the installation has finished and you see your Desktop, I suggest you to proceed with the next steps in the
        following order to see as early as possible if you are on the right way.
18.) Install the Chipset driver, restart.
19.) Install the Intel Rapid Storage “driver” and check the box where it asks to additionally install the control center.
        Reboot.
20.) Go into BIOS (FN and F2) and enable Intel Rapid Start (the one you disabled in Step 8 and 9)
21.) Boot into Windows.
22.) Click on the Windows button, type cmd and right klick on the cmd.exe, select to run it as Admin.
23.) Now you’ll create a hibernation partition on the SSD. (which by now should be completely empty as we’ve
        deleted all partitions in step 15)
24.) In the command prompt that we have just opened, type: (without quotas, for sure)
“diskpart” and hit the enter button
“list disk” and hit the enter button
Now you should see your ssd as disk 0 and your hdd as disk 1
If your ssd is disk 0 (that would be standard), write “select disk 0”, otherwise write: “select disk 1”, and hit the enter button.
Now write “create partition primary size=4096” and hit enter again. [if you have 4GB of ram, type 4096, if you have 8 GB of ram, use 8192]
Now write “detail disk” and hit enter to see the volume number behind the volume that we have just created (it is 4 GB or 8 respectively, should be easy to find), in my case that was “2”
Now type “select volume 2” if your 4 or 8 GB volume has number 2 as well, otherwise use the number you found out in step f. Hit enter.
Finally, type: “set id=84 override” and hit enter for one last time.
It should now say back that the id has been set successfully.
Exit the command prompt. (close)
25.) Reboot
26.) Install the Rapid Start driver. Reboot.
27.) Open the Intel Rapid Storage Application.
28.) Click on accelerate and approve the settings. Two RAID’s will be created. Reboot.
29.) Install the remaining drivers, have fun with Windows Update and that’s it!
Good luck to all of you… And hey Lenovo - wouldn't that have been your job after all these posts showing your costumers in trouble? Just my two cents...
If you want, you can now turn on UEFI-boot in BIOS.
PS: If, after installing all drivers, you happen to see one unknown device in your device manager – this one belongs to Lenovo Connect Software that came with your Laptop. (Updates FB, Email etc when PC is in sleep mode) If you install Lenovo Connect it’s going to be fine, however, I would not recommend it as it is said to use a lot of energy and cause some other problems. So just live with it, your PC is totally fine without it.
Kind regards from Shanghai

Seriously guys, I can't use my 3 days old laptop. Some help would be mostly appreciated. At this point, the network connection issue doesn't show up anymore, it's just a blank screen after reboot. I reinstall windows and do it all over again just to achieve the same result.
Now couple of things caught my attention: as I load the "6flpy-x64.zip" driver from step 14, I get a message saying I need to install signed drivers, because unsigned ones are likely to mess up the system.
Secondly, I could not find any Rapid Storage Technology drivers for Windows 7 (particularly for U310 model), so I use the Windows 8 ones (http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS031455), which seems a silly thing, yet I know of no alternatives.
Could it be any of these issues to cause my problem? Or smth else? Please help!

U410 Intel Rapid Start Technology Driver - failure

For about the last two weeks (for some unknown reason) Intel Rapid Start Technology is unable to start on my U410 Laptop. I attempted to reinstall the driver from the Lenovo page, but when I get to the install point I get a message stating my device does not meet the minimum specifications for this technology!
It's making start ups and logging on a major drag
Has anyone experienced this before? Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you,
Rory

Never found a way to fix it. Me and my friends are pretty proficient with computers too. Just been shutting down my computer every time I'm done using it. Lenovo said we can send it to them and they'll take a look or replace under warranty

Intel Rapid Start Technology does not appear to be installed

How do I get rid of this message?
It's an HP Envy dv7 Notebook, D0X38EA#ABU
I haven't upgraded any part of the hardware - it's configured as it came out of the box. It's running Win 8.1
I have looked through the forum and downloaded manuals and it all gets extremely technical very quickly. So I downloaded a driver from intel and it says "This computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software".
I am just a simple user. I can guess that the Intel thing will make the computer boot faster. That would be nice but I'm not qualified to start faffing around in the BIOS. Nor do I want to be.
Please just tell me how to make the message go away. It's annoying.
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Hello @Gatasblancas,
Welcome to the HP support Forums. I completely understand your issue and your reluctance to go into the BIOS. If you dont feel comfortable doing it then by all means stay out. Thank you for providing your system information as well. Now there is only one way of dealing with this and it does require going into the BIOS. Here is a link that can walk you through the steps needed.
Intel Rapid Start Technology.
Now you may have not upgraded or changed anything it may have been caused by an update that ran automaticaly.
If you can not work through this with the link I posted for you. I would contact phone support to walk you through this.
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Thinkpad W530 and Intel Rapid Start Issue

Hi there, I have a Thinkpad W530 and am having an issue with Intel Rapid Start. When I enable it, it works fine. Once. When I bring the computer back from the S4 state everything is working just fine. But the Intel Rapid Start service disables itself. I have to re-enable it each time I want to use it. Any ideas? Thanks! Charlie Durand

This is happening for me too on my X1 Carbon, having wiped it and installed Windows 8 manually. Rapidstart will work fine the first time I turn it on, but then it'll pretty much say it's done with me until I switch it back to "on" again.
Having to check the manager each time is rather tedious, so I'm going to turn it off (edit:uninstall!) and use hibernation until a fix is published.

W530: Intel Rapid Start/Smart Response tech/Lenovo Enhanced Experience

I have W530 configured by Lenovo for RAID 0 with two HDDs. I was wanting to install a mSATA SSD. I've seen two Intel Technologies and the LEE 3 (listed in the subject) that you can utilize if you have an mSATA SSD. I want to know if the two Intel techs are actually different programs or just different names for the same thing. In this lenovo thread, they seem to be used synonymously. However, I have found to pdf files that contain different instructions on how to set them up: here and here. The ladder seems like it was intended for a specific motherboard; however, the intel programs downloaded are different in both pdfs. Can anyone shed some light on whether or not these are different technologies, and if so, what the differences are.
Lastly, the Lenovo Enhanced Experience looks like a combination of the Intel programs. It seems that they just slapped there name on Intels programs Anyone know anything on that?
Thinkpad W530, i7-3720QM, 1920x1080 screen, 12GB 1333Mhz RAM, RAID 0 2x 320GB 7200 RPM HDD, Quadro K2000M, 6-cell battery, Bluetooth 4.0, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN

Also, I was looking at the tabook.pdf and it shows the W530 uses the Mobile Intel QM77 Express Chipset. The first pdf I posted showed that the Intel Z68 Express Chipset was required for the Intel Rapid Start tech. is the W530 compatiable with either of the Intel Techs?
Thinkpad W530, i7-3720QM, 1920x1080 screen, 12GB 1333Mhz RAM, RAID 0 2x 320GB 7200 RPM HDD, Quadro K2000M, 6-cell battery, Bluetooth 4.0, Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 AGN

U310 Rapid Start Issues....go figure?

So, I didn't read up like I should have on how everything was formatted/partitioned on these U310's before going, "Hey I'm gonna install Windows 7 on this SSD! LET ME JUST REFORMAT IT!" ...so I reformatted it, then ran into all kinds of issues trying to boot from the Win 7 boot USB (Finally found out I had to turn off UEFI) ....only to come to the conclusion that I couldn't install windows 7 on the SSD because it was partitioned in GPT (I think thats what it was?)
I'm not too familiar with HD setups, partiions, and RAID...and all that, so I didn't want to screw with anything else. I booted the comp back up to windows 8, and got a Rapid Start error saying it was off...I went into BIOS and saw it said "INVALID" ...figured out it was because I reformated the SSD and deleted the cache on it.
So I ended up restoring the comp, and when I booted back up....it didn't say it was "INVALID" anymore, however, the SSD still says 24.9 GB free out of 24.9 GB. There's nothing on the SSD still. If I try to create that whole "Hibernation" partiion on it, it says there is only 2GB free, and if I bring up disk management, it says disc 0 (Which should be the SSD) is partitioned into 18GB, and 4GB (But it just says Primary partition and nothing about Hibernation)...
SO MY QUESTION ....Is Rapid Start working correctly and using the SSD even though it shows 24.9/24.9 free?
Also when I try to start Rapid Start Config ...it prompts the admin pop up, I hit ok, and then nothing happens.
Ugh, this is super frustrating. Thanks for any help you guys can provide.

When will you be able to move timer on rapid start technology gui and comp goes into S4 state, then you know that it works fine
I have problem,
I don't have acceleration button on smart response technology, how to set it up ??
Now SSD isn't useful

Help Intel Rapid Start Problem U410

I've suddenly started having a problem with my U410 laptop. Everytime I put it on it shows a message that my system does not apear to have Intel Rapid Start Tecnology enabled. Ive checked the bios and it shows it being enabled but also that the IRST Partition status INVALID.
Can anyone pleas help me resolve this, I'm running Windows 8.1, the laptop is now out of warranty.

Hey everyone,
I registered just to at the very least post a possible solution to this problem. Was working on a U310 Touch unit tonight and came across the very same issue described in this post. Upon starting the unit in Windows 8, you get to the desktop and get a lovely message about Intel Rapid Start Technology not being enabled on the unit. Well, I went into the EFI BIOS and discovered that iRST was in an invalid state. Upon further investigation I noticed the 25GB partition (all within the same single hdd, as this unit did not have an ssd inside) was visible to the end user through Computer as a regular disk.
So the solution? Well, the partition somehow got unmarked as the hibernation partition! In my case, the fix was to use diskpart, select disk 0 (only hdd in machine), select the 25GB partition (was partition 7 I believe for my case) and ran this command (from the Rapid Start user guide and a microsoft forum post):
set id=D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593
This magical command sets the partition which we selected to be the hibernation partition. Once I rebooted, the error messages never came back, and I checked in the BIOS and now iRST says "Established", and everything is back to working order!
Hope this helps someone, took me a little while to figure this out.
** SMALL EDIT **
I used the default settings in the BIOS, set as AHCI in this case (no ssd, single hdd) when I checked after resetting to defaults.

Y410p Cannot install Intel Rapid Start Technology

Hi Guys, I have a Y410p and I have replaced the HDD with a SSD on windows 8. Before changed to SSD, i did not try to install the intel rapid start and thus I never know if it could work before. I re-install Windows 8 on the SSD and also installed Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver. When I install the Intel Rapid Start, I got this error: "this computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing this software" I have checked the BIOS, I cannot see any relevant settings and I just make sure AHCI enabled. I have done the parition (on the GPT) using the set ID = D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593 I have followed this guide (UEFI)http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/rapid_start_technology_user_guide_for_uefi1.pdf Is it Y410P cannot have the Intel Rapid Start installed because of the chipset or the BIOS? Do I miss anything? Please help. Thanks in advance.

Never found a way to fix it. Me and my friends are pretty proficient with computers too. Just been shutting down my computer every time I'm done using it. Lenovo said we can send it to them and they'll take a look or replace under warranty

Lenovo IdeaPad U310 Intel Rapid Start Technology with WIndows 7 Ultimate

Hello,
I have upgraded my Windows 7 Home Premium to Ultimate. Got it in my domain and everything seems normal . But I wanted to check the options of that energy saving settings and can't find any information about, when does my computer go to hibernate. He does use the stand by, but for how long? Until the battery is low? That makes no sense.
The computer must go in hibernate or is this with ultrabooks going other ways?

Hi
I have further investigated and found a solution for hibernation
In order to enable hibernate in Lenovo Machines SSD support models, you will need to restart and Enter into the BIOS Setting
1. Press Fn+ F2 to enter BIOS
2. Choose "Configuration > SATA controller working mode" as "RAID";
3. Select "Configuration>Intel Rapid Start Technology", choose " iRST Support" and "Entry on S3 critical battery event" as "Disable";
. It will then automatically return to an available Windows power options setting. However, iRST (Intel Rapid Start Technology) does not have the ability to wake a system from hibernate.
Now restart the system and you will find hibernation option is enabled under power option
Hope This Helps
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HT1199 my computer displays grey screen and apple logo for 10 minutes or more during start up and shut down. sometimes it refuses to shut down . this issues started after installing OS lion. what do i do?

my computer displays grey screen and apple logo for 10 minutes or more during start up and shut down. sometimes it refuses to shut down . this issues started after installing OS lion. what do i do?

I don't think it's exactly an incomplete installation brody, but most likely in-correct permissions somewhere along the line that either happened, or became magnified during the upgrade. Also, it could be corruption as well.
First thing to do, is boot up holding down Shift key to do a safe-boot so we an clean up any corrupted OS caches, after that do another reboot, but go to the Lion recovery, and scan the HD for errors, repair any if you find them, and then try to do a Repair Permissions job.
That should fix the issue, if not, we can start doing a PRAM reset and SMC for good measure.

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