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Hello, I have recently bought a Mushkin Chronos Deluxe 240gb SSD, and am in the process of installing it. I ran into a situation in the BIOS that because I am using the Asus Crosshair IV Formula mobo, it is such that I have to choose AHCI for ports 1-4 before I have the option of choosing either IDE or AHCI for ports 5-6 (the defaults were IDE 1-4, IDE 5-6). It says when I highlight ports 5-6 that choosing IDE is required for optical drives when installing an OS.
Right now I have plugged the SSD into port 5. The 2 HDDs and optical drive are in ports 1,2 and 4. Will I have to plug the optical drive in port 5, and the SSD in port 3 or 4, and set it to AHCI while setting IDE for port 5 in order to boot up the Windows 7 CD and be able to install? Will setting AHCI from IDE for the 2 HDDs in my system affect the way they will be detected or read?