Intel SATA (9C83) and Win10

[stenor]

HELLO

I'm posting this here as it seemed the most appropriate place considering my available forum accounts.
I believe this information can potentially save some people from trashing a perfectly working computer unnecessarily.

I have a Intel Broadwell 5005U Laptop class CPU/Motherboard (although in a desktop sff).
The Intel controller device id is: 8086,9C83

The problem here has to do with "Intel 9 Series SATA AHCI Controller" driver that Microsoft includes with Windows 10.

It started sometime last year with an update to windows, maybe the spring update (service pack) 2018.

What happened? Bluescreen, random crashing of the entire system, "STORE EXCEPTION" or something like that.
The pc was unsafe to use.

After first trying to manually update the bios with resources from www.win-raid.com, and updating the SSD firmware;
I finally found the culprit.

Now for some reason Microsoft is using an outdated driver as standard for my system. Windows update etc, won't "find"
or update to a newer one. I had to find it myself on win-raid forums, here: Intel-RST-RSTe-Drivers

The driver that matched my system was this: 64bit Intel RST(e) AHCI/RAID Drivers v14.8.18.1066 WHQL

Before: Unusable, unsafe computer due to sudden crashes/reboots.
After: As reliable as one can expect, no need to replace it due to Microsoft using an outdated driver.