One day I found myself looking at a notification in the task bar tray telling my I was on my way to a free upgrade to Windows 10 from Win 7. I later came to realize that Windows was making changes under the hood.
The .NET framework change broke the Microsoft Expression Web suite and Capture One Pro. After the upgrade they automagically work again. To stop this whole process required rolling back the PC and monkeying around with windows update to block the update that starts the upgrade to Win10.
I don't recall any notice being pushed to me through the Dell services running on this PC but in any event here I am because I let the upgrade proceed.
Uh oh. Problems. LAN crashing (WAN is fine) and Intel RST service not running but IAstorDataSvc is consuming 15% cpu. I went to Dell and they are recommending not to upgrade this machine.
I tried rolling back the NIC driver without success and I have ordered an adapter card to squeeze in. I tried running the Intel chipset update utility but it could not find any compatible devices.
My most immediate concern is this PC is running RAID 0 and the Intel RST service is not running correctly. My understanding is there is no undoing the RAID 0 unless one is prepared to reinstall the OS.
What are my options? Can I turn off the startup Intel services related to this process? Is there a different way to update the RST services that will work with my XPS8300? Some other option I have not thought about?
TIA,
RandyN
