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can't get new SSD to run in SATAII mode
Hi all
Not sure if this is a driver problem or not but I've just done a fresh install of Windows 7 64bit onto my new Samsung 840 EVO SSD and the drive is stuck in SATAI mode. My motherboard (Gigabyte N650SLI-DS4 - Nvidia 650i SLI chipset) supports SATAII, In fact my other, conventional, HDD is running in SATAII and has better speeds than the SSD (according to the Speed Test for the SATA port in Device Manager)!
My motherboard doesn't support AHCI unfortunately and I can live with that but would really like SATAII to work. Any suggestions.
What I have done so far;
turned RAID on in my BIOS as this has helped some people achieve SATAII on Nvidia chipsets (see http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Solid-S....p/12203/page/2 for reference)
I even edited the registry to enable the AHCI driver (in desperation as it was mentioned a lot on the web).
My RAID was not turned on when I installed Windows and I didn't load any special drivers during the install because I didn't have any. I suppose I could reload Windows now I have turned on RAID but would want to have some hope it would make a difference
Any help gratefully received!