The process DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch Miniport Driver is an important component of the software for Dell RAID Controller. This usually gets installed in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\cercsr6.sys. Being a device driver, it is important to keep the file installed to avoid hardware failure. According to a number of users, their AV software has detected the executable file cercsr6.sys as being a form of virus, executing a malicious process onto the system. Based on the users’ own research, there were also a number of other threat analyses that detected the file as some kind of a virus. The detection, as it turned out, was generally a false positive. A fix was provided by the users’ AV company to address the issue. After this false positive detection, the file has never been mentioned again as a virus or other malicious software. The size of the file averages at 39,904 bytes. File version 4.1.0.7405 has an MD5 image hash of 84853B3FD012251690570E9E7E43343F.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. cercsr6.sys. is used by  DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch Miniport Driver, If you shut down cercsr6.sys, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop cercsr6.sys, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is  DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch Miniport Driver, 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 cercsr6.sys

A process usually a part of an installed application such as  DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch Miniport Driver, 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 cercsr6.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 cercsr6.sys, belongs to, in this case  DELL CERC SATA 1.5/6ch Miniport Driver