misbehaving laptop

partan

the other day i switched on my laptop and it wouldnt start up. tried it over and over, and eventually it started in safe mode.still couldnt do anything with it and gave up. next time i tried it, it started slowly but has been working ok since.
ive got a message up however which says...



Download and install the driver for your RAID controller
Your RAID controller is missing a driver.

To solve this problem, follow these steps:

Click to download the driver from the Intel website

Click Download for the multi-language driver or the appropriate language-specific driver if one is listed.
Read the license agreement, and then click Accept if you accept the terms and conditions.
Next to Download, click the link to download the driver.
Click Run or Open. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Follow the steps in the installation wizard.

About your RAID controller

The model name of your RAID controller is Intel Matrix Storage Manager (iaStor.sys).


now before i go installing this, should i be doing anything else? wee bit out of my depth here

cheers

free4440273

for safety, create a restore point ; might be wise to create an image too. take a look in hardware devices and inspect whether indeed there is a driver missing (look for yellow exclamation mark); otherwise might be okay to leave alone if everything is working . might be wise too to do a scan with malwarebytes -- free version .

image creation: u can use the free macrium reflect .