Intel® Turbo Memory

Release Notes

October 2007

Revision 1.5.0.1013
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Revision History

Revision History
Package Intel® Turbo Memory Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Release Date
Definition Driver Revision Driver Revision

1.5 PV 1.5.0.1013 7.8.0.1012 October 19, 2007

1.1 PV 1.1.0.1010 7.0.1.1001 July 24, 2007

1.0 PV 1.0.0.1082 7.0.0.1020 March 13, 2007

Supported Operating Systems:

• Microsoft Windows Vista* x32 Edition (RTM Version)

• Microsoft Windows Vista* x64 Edition (RTM Version)

Supported Hardware:
• Intel® Mobile 965 Express Chipset based Platforms supporting AHCI Mode

• Intel® 3 Series Chipsets utilizing Intel® 82801IR I/O Controller Hub (ICH9R)
Desktop Platforms supporting AHCI or RAID Mode

• Intel® Turbo Memory Technology

New Features
Feature Description

Intel® 82801IR Microsoft Windows ReadyBoost* support has been added for all ICH9R-based
I/O Controller platforms that support Intel® Turbo Memory Technologoy. Note: Microsoft
Hub (ICH9) Windows ReadyDrive* is not supported on any ICH9R-based platform.
Support

RAID Support Support for RAID Mode has been added for ICH9R-based platforms.

Issues - Fixed in this release

Reference Description
No:

Please see the Intel® Matrix Storage Manager Release Notes for a description of the
N/A
supported driver fixes.

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 Reference Description
No:

2447788 Sporadic 0x7F BSOD during system boot when memory pressure is applied.

2482260 Sporadic 0x9F BSOD during S4 resume on platforms with low system memory.

Note: Since the 1.1 PV release, this issue has been seen during Sx cycling in various
system memory configurations.

2484880 Sporadic black screen issue during Sx cycling testing.

2485099 Some DOS tools may fail when outputting information through the legacy speaker.

2485905 Occasional 8086(101, x, 1F, x) BSOD seen in DC Mode during Sx cycling testing
when certain SMART commands are used.

2516091 Zip and EXE release packages not correctly using “Intel(R)TurboMemory” in their
names.

2519069 32-bit Intel® Turbo Memory driver does not contain an embedded signature.

2551207 URLs listed in help menu do not point correctly to Intel® Turbo Memory sites.

Issues – Known in this release

Reference Description
No:

N/A Standby and Resume issues have been seen on SATA Ports where an ACPI _PS3
method to power down a given hard drive is defined and the hard drive is being
cached by Intel® Turbo Memory.

2211046 Resume from S4 takes longer with Intel® Turbo Memory than without; the delay
is anywhere between 1 to 3 seconds.

2257120 The console has inconsistent font when installed in Japanese.

2257122 For Japanese, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional languages, the ™ and
® characters in the Intel® Turbo Memory Console System Information are
corrupted.

2290701 The console displays junk values in System Information for the hard drive “Model
Name” and “Capacity” when Intel® Turbo Memory is loaded but the Intel®
Matrix Storage Manager is not loaded.

2333491 For Japanese, Chinese Simplified, and Chinese Traditional languages, the
Report.txt generated by the console will show the ® character as corrupted in
the section of the report that is in English.

2438081 Unchecking Enable Windows ReadyDrive in the console will not fully disable the
Microsoft Windows ReadyDrive feature.

2438311 Windows ReadyBoost will be reported as enabled in the console when a USB
Thumb Drive is connected and Microsoft Windows ReadyBoost is enabled on the

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 Reference Description
No:

thumb drive.

2442583 Sporadic 0xD1 BSOD when doing short duration restart testing.

Note: This issue has been seen only when implementing 15 second restart
cycles.

2443768 A drive letter is sometimes assigned to the NVCACHE partition.

2517403 The Add/Remove string in the Control Panel is not right to left in Arabic and
Hebrew.

2517406 An error message popup is seen instead of the Help Menu when the help menu is
evoked in unsupported languages.

2517425 The copyright symbol is corrupted when the console is displayed in the Thai
operating system.

2518169 The console displays junk values in System Information for the hard drive “Model
Name” and “Capacity” when Intel® Turbo Memory is loaded and the system is in
a RAID 0 configuration.

2550957 Sporadics BSODs seen during S4 cycling testing.

2551633 DFOROM uses up to 16KB of system memory below Extended BIOS Data Area
during OROM Initialization.

N/A Sporadic 8086 (0, 0, 0, 0) BSODs seen with some hard drives.

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