Recent content by NthBelisarius

Just as an update - I tried noidea_77's suggestion and changed the SATA port to Port 1, and Samsung Magician now detects AHCI mode. In case others have the same problem.

Hi, I have an ASUS Crosshair IV Formula motherboard (bought 2 1/2 years ago) with 6 SATA 6 Gb/s ports. These ports are split in the BIOS into 1-4 and 5-6, I was just wondering whether this actually means anything? I have an SSD on Port 5 and am having some trouble with read/write speeds - so I...

I installed and performed a fresh install on my new SSD, but I am not sure if AHCI is active. In the BIOS in System Configuration it says: SATA Port 1-4: AHCI SATA Port 5-6: AHCI but then when I check in the Boot section the drive is listed as IDE:Samsung SSD 84. In addition, Samsung Magician...

Hey, I just did a fresh install of Windows 7, inserted the motherboard support CD so I could acess the internet (needed driver), and am now confronted with this list of drivers: 1. AMD Chipset Driver 2. VIA Audio Driver 3. Sound Blaster X-Fi 4. JMicron JMB36X Controller Driver 5. Marvell Yukon...

Hi, I'm currently planning to add an SSD and do a fresh install of Windows 7 onto that, should I update my BIOS before doing so? Looking at the BIOS information, it was last updated in 2010. Also, looking at the ASUS download suite it lists several updates. Do I download and install them one by...

I've been looking around for a week or two now and the one one Amazon is at ~£160, haven't found any lower. I was hoping to get a deal on Black Friday but no luck. Should I buy it now or wait? BTW, the reason I want to buy it is because my 2 1/2 yro computer takes about 10 -15 mins after login...