Posts by TheLaw

Weird thing happened...I switched around the SATA cables and by some magic, the SSD is now in AHCI mode, though I'm 99.99% sure all of the sata ports are on the same controller and that it shouldn't matter which port a drive is connected...

Just reinstalled....it doesn't want anything to do with AHCI it seems. BIOS is blatently in AHCI mode...what is going on.

It was set to AHCI when I installed! 100% This is why I am really confused. How could it possibly install the IDE drivers if I never had it in IDE mode at all...I think I might do a fresh install to ease my mind.

A StartOverride folder does not show up. I have storahci with subfolders Enum and Parameters but no such StartOverride. There is a StartOverride folder in "storflt.sys" but I'm not sure if that's the same thing.

AS SSD says pci ide- BAD I promise. Thing is...my BIOS was set to AHCI when I installed W8 last time which is why I'm confused.

Hello, I know Sean has a stickied thread with a how-to on installing an SSD on Windows 8, but I've been having a trouble or two. I built a new PC for my brother. It's using a Samsung 840 Pro 120GB drive (and a Constellation ES for...

double post somehow..

Quote:Originally Posted by Sean Webster doees it still say ahci in the bios? cause it must have not saved. Yep I've never had the BIOS turn off AHCI. Nor have I had any boot problems or functional problems. It just tells me that I...

I do not believe I have more than one SATA controller. The motherboard is an ASRock A85-X Extreme4-m http://www.asrock.com/mb/AMD/FM2A85X%20Extreme4-M/ Perhaps I am not changing the right registry key or doing something wrong there? I...

Just built my brother a new computer. It works fine except I cant seem to get AHCI enabled for the life of me. AS SSD says "pci ide" as does Samsung Magician. I want storahci enabled. I've changed the value of Start under storahci to 0,...