The file hpt3xx.sys, known as HP3txx Mini Port Driver, belongs to software Rocket 100 from HighPoint Technologies. Rocket 100 Non-RAID 2-channel IDE Adapter Controller Card is a 2-channel ATA host adapter that supports up to four hard disks and HD capacity exceeding 137 GB. It has bootable disk supports and features CRC error checking of up to 100 MB/s. The miniport driver hpt3xx.sys directly manages installed network adapters and use NDIS (Network Driver Interface Specification) to communicate with the adapter hardware. The miniport driver presents an interface that allows the protocol driver to configure the adapter and to send and receive packet over the network. The host side interface of Rocket 100 is 32 bits, 33/66MHz PCI, while the disk interface is Ultra DMA/ ATA 100. It features a 4-layer PCB, a HighPoint HPT370 chipset, and is equipped with four disk connections.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. hpt3xx.sys. is used by Rocket 100, If you shut down hpt3xx.sys, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop hpt3xx.sys, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Rocket 100, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed hpt3xx.sys

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Rocket 100, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if hpt3xx.sys. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that hpt3xx.sys, belongs to, in this case Rocket 100