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Gigabyte Mobo forcing IDE over SATA
Fresh install W7 64 bit Home Premium
All chipset driver updates installed
GA-P55a-UD3 rev 1.0 F4 BIOS Version
Intel Core I7-860
16gb RAM G Skill 16000
ATI 5770 1gb
WD 1TB SATA 3.0 HDD
Recently reinstalled due to some hardware issues ( Long Story ) and my BIOS sees my HDD as IDE. In diagnosing my hardware issues, I took an old IDE HDD and inserted it into MB to see if I could load windows on it. The MOBO now sees my SATA drive as IDE. It didn’t do this after my first build. The introduction of an IDE legacy device seems to have forced it to IDE mode and it won’t come out.
I have studied my mobo manual extensively and believe I have the correct settings ( ACHI enabled on the appropriate controllers ) SATA3 enabled. However my SATA drive still shows as IDE
I have all BIOS settings set to ACHI.
HD is connected to the correct SATA3 controller. This SATA HD was connected to a portable HDD shell to ensure it was working then put back in the PC in question and I did a clean reinstall of Windows 7.
I can really sense the performance hit from the IDE mode. I spent the extra $$$ to get SATA3 HDD and MOBO when I did my build and it was working. I would really like to get this back in order.
Any suggestions??? Thanks in advance for any help!!
Pete