For Windows XP,Vista, or 7 SATA Port 0-3 should be enabled.
Disabled allows for legacy support for OS's that do not support AHCI/SATA native mode.
This article may explain bios settings a bit better than I can: (
MaximumPC-UltimateBiosGuide )
Quote from the article:
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode: You might not always find this setting under Integrated Peripherals, depending on the layout of your BIOS. It might also be labeled slightly differently, but the options are the same. Here are your three possible choices
SATA Port 0-3 Native Mode: The most common solution, configuring SATA drives in native IDE mode is also the easiest, as it sports the most compatibility and a 'driver-less' install, at least in terms of not needing to go through the F6 dance. Disabling this option puts the SATA ports in Legacy IDE mode, which is used for pre-XP OSes like Win 9x/ME
Onboard SATA/IDE Device: Enables your motherboard's SATA ports. Go figure!
Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode: This is where you'll tell your motherboard to operate its SATA ports in IDE, AHCI, or RAID mode, as outlined above (see SATA RAID/AHCI Mode).
It looks to me as if its freezing trying to identify the SSD.
As for the bios freezing upon post try this:
1) Power down your PC.
2) Unplug the SATA Cable from the SSD
3) Power Backup and see what posts.
If Post is successful, you will get a error that the BootMGR is missing.
Thats OK, and expected.
The point here is to see if the Bios recognizes, Posts your other drives properly, and attempts to boot up.
If it reads and posts all other SATA devices, power down again and reconnect the SSD.
If it freezes again, the drive may possibly be dead.
But that doesn't necessarily mean it can not be recovered.
To know for sure, you will need to get in touch with OCZ.
They may have you download some tools, run some tests and send them the results.
They may then even request you do a destructive FW flash to restore the drive.
I only mention this because the same happened to my Vertex a while back.