New Intel SSD

Well i did a clean install of Win 7 HP and am not happy no other hdd's were plugged in, it seemed slow in the install process. After the install and driver installation it take forever to load, if you stay with it finally it will get to the desktop, did the rate the system and came up with 7.4 which is really good. Do a restart and it take 5 minutes, it's like it get's lost, i outed the page file no hibranation. I have also run the Intel SSD Toolbox and the drive optimizer is not available, I have an NVidia motherboard in a Dell XPS 730 comp as in my system spec's. I know it's probably something simple but i'm at a loss. Need some experts advice.

1Bowtie,
Yes something is seriously wrong. The loading speed of W7 on my 5 installations with a SSD have all been incredibly fast. I would ask you to try a different sata port but if the port was turned off then why or how could it even load. On many mobo's in the bios you can turn on and off certain or all sata ports, please check this as I'm at a loss as to why you are having this issue. Try plugging the SSD into the spinners sata port and re-boot we know that port wasn't turned off!

I'm at a loss also. Are you on port 0, is the sata controller in AHCI mode? There must be some reason the Intel Tool Box won't optimize your drive.

1Bowtie said:

Well i did a clean install of Win 7 HP and am not happy no other hdd's were plugged in, it seemed slow in the install process. After the install and driver installation it take forever to load, if you stay with it finally it will get to the desktop, did the rate the system and came up with 7.4 which is really good. Do a restart and it take 5 minutes, it's like it get's lost, i outed the page file no hibranation. I have also run the Intel SSD Toolbox and the drive optimizer is not available, I have an NVidia motherboard in a Dell XPS 730 comp as in my system spec's. I know it's probably something simple but i'm at a loss. Need some experts advice.

For starters, put the pagefile back. 2GB would suffice. The hiberfile you do not need.

With a fresh installation, the alignment should be OK. But check it anyhow (look under 'Verification'): SSD Alignment

Then post a picture of your Disk Management. Maybe there is something odd to be discovered.

Here's the exact message in the toolbox, The Intel SSD toolbox cannot communicate with the selected SSD. Consider changing to another storage driver compatible with your system and try the Toolbox again.

Here's the pic

Disk Management looks OK. Sounds like you have a driver problem. Did you set the BIOS to AHCI but not Win7.

With the nforce motherboard there is no AHCI in bios, you can only do raid or ide and i put the only storage drivers there are in. Intel storage controllers all work without a problem. For some reason SSD's are not compatible with nforce boards.