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Sata Mode AHCI / IDE
Hey everyone. I hope everyone is doing fine. I've literally rebuilt my entire machine but I think I made a mistake before installing Windows 7.
I should have gone over the BIOS with a fine tooth comb, but I did not. The SATA mode is set to IDE instead of AHCI or RAID and now of course, I can't switch it to my knowledge without getting a BSOD. It means I would have to reinstall the OS over again.
I have been reading up online and did a search here, but didn't find the appropriate thead. I have two questions. I read on a forum somewhere, where an Intel user used a program to change this in Windows somehow. Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to switch to AHCI mode without reinstalling Win7 64bit?
Second question, is it worth it to switch over? I see the benefits are this:
AHCI mode brings 3 main advantages:
Supports NCQ (Native Command Queuing) allowing SATA drives to accept more than one command at a time and dynamically reorder the commands for maximum efficiency.
Supports hot plugging of devices
Supports staggered spin ups of multiple hard drives at boot time
My machine seems kind of slow when accessing data and don't know if this is an issue with the SATA drives being in IDE mode. I got some choppiness in some games that's coming from access data (tested) and that seems weird but could definitely come from SATA drives being in IDE mode.
I got an MSI R5770 Hawk Video card...I'm freaking in love with that thing :)
I have two Hitachi 7200RPM SATA and one Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM SATA drive. All three are 500GB
My new machine is ASRock M3A770DE Mainboard and I successfully unlocked the 4th core on my AMD Athlon 445 making it a Phenom X4 3.1 and it's running beautifully. Ran a stability test and it was perfect.
RAM is Kingston HyperX CAS8 running at 1600mhz
So my question....to AHCI or not. Do you think its worth it. Have you noticed huge performance gains.
So now I guess I better update my profile and sorry I haven't been around. Me and SevenForums had an email issue
Cheers!