Show Us Your WEI [4]

[essenbe]

The screenshot you posted earlier was in alignment and you were using the AMD AHCI drivers. My experience with AMD is several years ( OK A little more than several) ago. But, at that time the AMD AHCI sata drivers did not perform very well at all. They may have improved now, but I used to have to use the Microsoft MSAHCI drivers and got much better results with them. I tried to give Arc his keyboard back, but he wouldn't take it. Besides, Bill and Paul. I'm old and have a good excuse, what's yours?

 

[COMPUTIAC]

So are you saying I should uninstall the drivers and let Windows install the drivers ?

 

[essenbe]

Personally (and I take no responsibility) I would use the roll back driver in Device manager. It should roll back the driver to MSAHCI, whic is what windows used during the install. If you installed in AHCI mode, windows provides that driver to install. When you install the drivers from the motherboard, that's when the drivers change. So, roll back driver should put you to MSAHCI. It's worth a try. Better than reinstalling. Besides, I've done it a couple of thimes and it worked fine. It won't guarentee better performance, but should use different drivers.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

I can't do a Rollback.

It is greyed out in both screenshots. I can do a update or uninstall.

 

[essenbe]

COMPUTIAC, Your drive should be getting much better performance than it is getting. But, it still gets much higher performance than a mechanical hard drive. Would you like to see AS SSD on a mechanical hard drive? A Western Digital Black WD1002FAEX scored 15.

 

[essenbe]

Click update driver and search the internet, it will say the current driver is the latest, I'm sure. I believe you should be able to roll back driver after that.

 

[essenbe]

If that does not work, try update driver, search for a driver on my compuyer, navigate to C:/windows/system32/drivers and go down to msahci.sys and see if it will install that. You can look before hand and you will see it is there.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

Click update driver and search the internet, it will say the current driver is the latest, I'm sure. I believe you should be able to roll back driver after that.

Tried this and Rollback is still greyed out.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

If that does not work, try update driver, search for a driver on my compuyer, navigate to C:/windows/system32/drivers and go down to msahci.sys and see if it will install that. You can look before hand and you will see it is there.

OK, it did the update from; choose from a list, then did a reboot.
WEI had no change still 5.9 for the SSD. In device manager it is referred to as Disk Drive, not the name of the drive like before. I do not see any difference in the drivers listed, do you ?
Is the AS SSD better or worse ?

 

[essenbe]

No, there's no difference, and I can't explain that. In control panel, uninstall programs do you have a listing for AMD AHCI driver. If you do, you could try to uninstall it. If I'm correct, that should force it to use MSAHCI driver, but I could be wrong. Do you have the option to return the drive to where you bought it? If you do, I would consider that.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

The driver is not listed just AMD Catalyst Install Manager.

Bought it from newegg 6.18.12 says it has a 3yr. warranty. Its had a serious price change, I paid $80. now it is $190.

What if I uninstall the driver thru Device Manager, will this force Windows to install drivers or will it cause a lot of problems ?

I still have the option of replacing the SSD.

 

[theveterans]

I know that mine is Intel Mobo, but it should still apply to the AMD system too.

On the device manager, click the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" drop down menu


The on the device properties click rollback. It should return to the MSACHI drivers.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

I do not find Device properties, clicking on "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" opens and closes the list.

 

[theveterans]

Oh, just right click on the "AMD SATA Controller" and click properties. Then go to "driver' tab and select rollback. It should bring it back to the MSAHCI and test your WEI again. Hope this works

 

[paulpicks21]

The screenshot you posted earlier was in alignment and you were using the AMD AHCI drivers. My experience with AMD is several years ( OK A little more than several) ago. But, at that time the AMD AHCI sata drivers did not perform very well at all. They may have improved now, but I used to have to use the Microsoft MSAHCI drivers and got much better results with them. I tried to give Arc his keyboard back, but he wouldn't take it. Besides, Bill and Paul. I'm old and have a good excuse, what's yours?

Hey I donu mak typos Stuve lol

 

[COMPUTIAC]

The WEI had no change.

The first two pics are before and after the rollback.

AS SSD did, it also now lists msahci - OK
The one which says; Driver software installation, poped up after reboot.
The list under IDE in device manager has changed also.

Has there been any progress ?

 

[essenbe]

You bought it a year ago?

 

[COMPUTIAC]

You bought it a year ago?

Yes Sir,
I never installed it though, until I put it in the HP and that was probably a month or so before putting together the new one.

 

[essenbe]

OK, just checking, and please don't call me Sir. I'm not used to it. Paul never calls me that, a few other things, but never sir. :roflmao:

You're probably going to have to go through the process with OCZ then.

 

[COMPUTIAC]

OK, just checking, and please don't call me Sir. I'm not used to it. Paul never calls me that, a few other things, but never sir. :roflmao:

Alright, sorry Si....uummm

Ah skip it.

No, you can't make me go thru that !