I will answer my own question. After some research, this is what I've found. It may not be 100% accurate. MEI 8.x is for 7 Series Chipset, also 6 Series Chipset (if BIOS supports it) MEI 7.x is for 6 Series Chipset MEI 6.x is for 5 Series Chipset MEI 5.x is for desktop 4 Series Chipset MEI 4.x is for laptop 4 Series Chipset MEI 3.x is for 3 Series Chipset MEI 2.x is for 963/965 Series Chipset Also, you may have to download the SOL package or 5.0M package for the serial port driver and other stuff.
how'd you do that?!?! Hi Laidbacktokyo, I am looking to do this driver mod on a lenovo T400 with a 5350 card as well. trying to get the local wifi hot spot feature working and I found your post. How did you do this trick? Thanks
Yes there is The Rapid Storage Technology driver actually has two separate driver components to it, the AHCI driver and the RAID driver. Then there's also the application. For AHCI mode, you only need the AHCI driver (and not even the application). By using the Intel AHCI driver you will maximise performance. This may not necessarily show in benchmark programs so much, because they do not take into account all scenarios. You really only need the AHCI driver (which can be manually installed as the 'floppy' version). If you install the whole program you install the application as well, which is where some of the recent problems lie.
Right, the benchmarks don't really change that I've seen. Well, they change, but within margin of error. Have you seen something in practice actually get faster though? Do you know why it misleadingly changes the names of some lines in Device Manager and even changes the Driver Provider name, the Driver Date, and the Driver Version, when it's apparently merely point to system drivers that came with Windows? Until one clicks on Driver Details, there's no reason to believe that it's not an Intel driver. I can understand in the case of where you're starting with a yellow banged item, but it does it for others too, such as with the AHCI controller.
Intel Chipset Device Software 9.3.1.1009 WHQL Code: //205.196.121.84/y6xm07fja2sg/o2g5qh5yqh6u3g6/intel_inf_9.3.1.1009.7
Has anyone noticed that the display driver installs about 150MBs of SDKs: Media and OpenCL? First, why, when developers are probably less than 1% of the target audience? Second, does the "Have Disk" method of installation not do this yet still update secondary components like the Control Panel applet? If so, next time I'll go that way.