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XPS 12 & Intel Rapid Start (greyed out in BIOS)
For compliance with company configuration I have wiped the SSD and installed Win 8 Enterprise. This is a UEFI based installation and all has gone smoothly apart from trying to configure Intel Rapid Start.
The main problem appears to be that the option is greyed out in the BIOS, so I cannot enable the hardware component that allows the Intel Rapid Start components to be installed (hardware unavailable error when I try.)
Now I have reserved an 8GB partition (partition is type MSR) and all other requirements for Rapid Start have been met.
So how do I get the BIOS option to become available?
Also using Intel Rapid Storage Technology application I understand a button for 'Acceleration' should become available but I'm not seeing this either.
Any info much appreciated.
dpezet
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March 10th, 2013 21:00
I went through the same thing. Here is what I did to fix it:
1) Go in to Disk Management in Windows and shrink your primary partition to allow room for a hibernation partition. Our laptops have 8,192MB of RAM, but you need a little more for Rapid Start. 8,200MB worked for me.
2) Open a CMD prompt with administrative privileges.
3) Run "list disk". We only have one drive so it should be drive 0.
4) Run "select disk 0".
5) Run "create partition primary size=8200"
6) Run "list vol" and see what volume number the new partition was assigned. Mine was assigned #3.
7) Run "select volume 3" or whatever number you got in step 6.
8) Run "set id=D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593"
9) Run "exit" to get out of Diskpart
10) Reboot your computer
11) Install the Intel Rapid Start driver from Dell. It will succeed this time.
12) Reboot into BIOS. The Rapid Start options will now be lit up. Configure away.
13) Boot up really fast.
Hope that helps. I had to read several tech docs on Intel's site an countless results on Google to figure it out. Hopefully this helps out other people.
Don
xps12_user
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February 2nd, 2013 09:00
I have exactly the same problem!
Isnt there any solution?
dpezet
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March 10th, 2013 21:00
I should also mention that if you bought the 4GB model you should be able to get away with a 4,100MB hibernation partition. We don't have any 4GB models so I couldn't test it.
Don
SimonIFF
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March 11th, 2013 02:00
Thanks Don, I must admit I had got it working eventually. The key being the id of the partition. I also found this correct key after much google and intel searching.
In general a poorly documented procedure. Once working though very much worthwhile - as you say, genuinely rapid start-up (1 to 2 secs) essential for that tablet 'experience'.
Cheers.
islamomran
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October 16th, 2013 11:00
Dear i try this steps , but finally i receive error message when i write set id=D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593 which is
the specified type is not in correct format
Please support ...
dpezet
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October 16th, 2013 18:00
The instructions I provided were for a GPT disk. You probably have an MBR disk which is why it is refusing the ID type. If that is the case, you will need to change the command to:
set id=0x84
instead of
set id=D3BFE2DE-3DAF-11DF-BA40-E3A556D89593
mrezekiel
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May 1st, 2014 06:00
I have done this with two fresh installs of Windows 8.1 on the same laptop, I cannot get the rapid start drivers to install. Any other ideas?
tohca
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July 15th, 2015 10:00
Thanks for great help. Just a short note... you need to add DISKPART at step #2
Cheers.