ahci

Hi, I have a Gigabyte A320-S2H-V2 motherboard with the latest bios (updated recently) and Windows 11 was initially installed as RAID with two mirrored drives. Unfortunately it lost synchronisation, probably partly because I was using Green drives which I found are not suitable for RAID and I...

I am having 100% disk usage (whenever I install or move or backup a game on Steam OR whenever I install any software) and during that time, I can't properly do other tasks or open apps, they tend to become "Not responding". When I am not doing these backups or move or install any software, the...

Hello, I have a system with an M.2 SSD and an HDD. I have Windows 11 installed on the M.2 SSD. The HDD is empty and I would like to use it for simple data storage (no RAID). The issue is that I don't see the HDD in Windows (including in Disk Management). I do see some references to it in BIOS...

Hi, I have an old system that I built in 2013. The system specs are as follows: Windows 10 Home 64bit Intel Core i7 4770k Asus Tuf Z87 SABERTOOTH PNY 250 GB SSD Corsair Platinum 16GB 1600mhz Dram Asus Dual OC RTX 2770 8GB Corsair 500w gold plus PSU Sama Mid Tower Case The system had been...

I understand the differences between AHCI and RAID. At least, I think I do. Currently, my Windows 11 PC's SATA mode is set to 'RAID on.' I am not interested in creating a RAID volume. Not now, and not likely in the future. Are there any advantages to switching my SATA mode to AHCI? And are...

Brand new Optiplex small form factor. Got the machine and needed to add my 1Tb M2 nvme which uses a Pci-e slot encapsulation. The machine booted to windows and did not recognize my added drive. Rebooted and entered the BIOS to find (IMHO Odd) Raid mode ON. Wondered, and did a little research...

Hello everyone, my name is Tommy. I am a data analyst in a railway safety company. We measure data on the railway that is then used by customers to ensure preventive safety. However, I am having a problem. Because it concerns large numbers of data, we receive physical disks that we then have to...

Hi all, I have an ASUS Vivobook. I was trying to install Linux, and since the installation process was not working (it remained stuck during the loading of the OS installer) I tried to change an option in the laptop UEFI (as suggested on the net). I don't recall the specific option name, but I...

Good morning, it's my first question and i m not sure i m in the right area. i m a technician and a lot of customer's pc are running win10 pro in AHCI mode, UEFI. So, even if mainboard's chipset are different (H510, H110, B560 and so on...) i can move SSD between PC and system starts without...

Hi all, i just bought a NVMe M.2 SSD XPG gammix S11 pro .. it has average of 3500 MB Read and 3000 MB Write speed acccording to manufacture.. my Laptop is Lenovo L340 Gaming .. when i installed the SSD and installed OS just ran a CrystalDiskMark Test and i found it gives me ~1500 MB Read and...

I'm trying to dual boot between windows and Linux mint on my notebook, but every time I go to install Linux mint it says that I need to disable the intel RST technology and switch to AHCI in the bios, but there's a problem, I'm using an NVMe SSD 512 gb M.2 2280 Intel Optane storage. Can I switch...

Please I need someone to save me because this is making me go insane. (I'm using Windows 10 Pro 21H1) I'm no computer expert but recently a friend suggested I buy an SSD and install my OS on it to improve my PC's performance. He works in tech so he helped me set everything up by sending me the...

I'm experiencing a perplexing installation issue with Windows 11 that I am hoping someone can help me with. I am installing a fresh copy of Windows 11 using a bootable USB. If I set my Bios to AHCI, the Windows 11 installation immediately hangs after the initial loading screen. I am faced with...

Hello… I have a Crucial MX500 2.5 SSD and I wanted to install it as a second storage. It’s 1tb. I know that my motherboard is compatible with it, I tried every sata port, it appears without any trouble in BIOS in any sata port. When I want to initialize it it doesn’t appear in Device manager nor...

Hello, After a failed overcloacking, my pc began showing black screen after i login on windows. I searched what is the problem but didnt find anything so i messed up with my bios.I changed the chipset mode from AHCI to RAID. After that, the black screen was gone but the pc didnt recognize my...

I have a nearly 4-year-old Samsung PM830 SATA SSD which sometimes gets detected normally, boots up, and works totally fine. Other times it is not detected which is when I checked the BIOS to see this detected as ROM MODE (0.0GB). It won't happen midway if the SSD is successfully detected. I...

my specs: Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 @ 3.16 Ghz Dolgix 8GB (2*4GB) DDR3 RAM 1333MHz Asus NVIDIA GeForce 210 512 MB DDR3 Graphics Card 480 ggb SSD Adata ZEB-G41-D3, LGA 775 Socket Zebronics ZEB450W PSU Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 64 bit OS I have two disk drives; 1. ADATA SU650 ATA Device 480 ggb 2. WD...

When I did a clean installation of windows, I booted it up with ACHI. Later on I did a repair install when I had an update error and believe I also booted it with ACHI. However, when I went into UEFI settings and put everything to default, I noticed my computer would have a startup repair loop...

HP 15-db0186au SSD used : Crucial BX500 120GB Removed my optical bay to add this SSD with a caddy bay Tested the caddy and the SSD with another system/laptop, they are working fine. I think the problem is either with my BIOS or with my SATA / AHCI Controller. Please help I am purely...

Hello, i heard that switching my ssd mode from IDE to AHCI mode in the bios would make it run faster. So i changed the setting to ahci and everything works fine but on boot i get the "No device found AHCI BIOS not installed", then my pc proceeds to boot to windows 10 and everything works fine, i...

Hi looking for some guidance and been trawling previous posts ref. the same topic and found no resolution based on two key factors. As a brief preface the SSD I am trying to use as a boot was previously the boot drive in the older system, has my files on it & I don't have a spare to backup...

On a Razer Blade 15 2019 Advanced, I upgradedfrom a 512 gig Samsung 970 EVO to a Mushkin Enhanced Pilot-E 2 tb drive. I cloned the 512 gig drive to the 2tb drive, adjusting partitions as necessary, and after many many attempts and curse words, I finally got windows booting and booting...

I upgraded my 2nd gen i5-2410M Win7 laptop with a 2TB Seagate Firecuda 6GB/s 5400 Hybrid SATA drive. Loaded a clean install of Win10 along with a Partition for Ubuntu. Disk usage pegs at 100% for nearly everything I do. Ran CrystalDiskMark and I'm only getting between 50-60 MB/s read/write on...

hi, my cpu i5-4670k, gpu - zotac 1050ti mini, mobo- gigabyte z87x-ud3h, bios version F10b, psu corsair cs650m , ram 4x4gb @1600 mhz, MX 500 500gb ssd, WD 1TB sata internal hdd, AHCI,windows10, that's ssd is brand new and i wanna clean install my windows 10 on that ssd. My pendrive has windows 10...

First off, thank you to this community for being so helpful! Existing posts helped me solve a number of computer issues, but this one has me confounded. I have a Dell G7 17 7790 with one HDD and an upgraded SSD which I installed half a year ago. Everything was fine, until yesterday when I...

I have a dell inspiron 7567 Specs: intel core i7-7700HQ 8gb ram kingston 1050ti The laptop is 2 years old and hasn't had a thermal paste change, so that's probably one of the reasons the performance has turned to crap. But yesterday I put in an m.2 nvme 512GB SSD and everything was fine. When...

hi, my cpu i5-4670k, gpu - 1050ti, mobo- gigabyte z87x-ud3h, bios version F10b, psu corsair cs650 , ram 4x4gb @1600 mhz, windows10. i have a 1 tb sata hdd, now i have decided to add a 500gb sata ssd. i will run windows and games on that ssd. my old hdd have 3 paritions - drive c,d, and e...

hi, my cpu i5-4670k, gpu - 1050ti, mobo- gigabyte z87x-ud3h, bios version F10b, psu corsair cs650 , ram 4x4gb @1600 mhz, windows10. i have a 1 tb sata hdd, now i have decided to add a 500gb sata ssd. i will run windows and games on that ssd. i never used ssd before. for best performance what...

This is an odd situation that crosses topics (storage, motherboards, general strangeness) and I'd appreciate some ideas. Yesterday I fitted a new SSD (primary drive) to my desktop - it's a Samsung 860 EVO. I swapped out the old SSD and used the same SATA and drive power cable. Initially things...

The hard-drive is an 8TB SeaGate. Some background: I had a thing called Intel Optane which, when it worked, it worked great. It's basically a little PCI memory stick that attaches itself to the HDD in a RAID setup to increase its speed to those comparable to an SSD. But anyway, in January the...

Hi guys, I have currently 2 WD Black hard drives in my PC, not in a RAID configuration. Windows is installed on one, on the other there is just files such as photos, MS word files etc. I want to install fresh Windows on a new SSD drive and attach my 2 Hard drives but not lose any of their data...

I was installing an ssd into my pc and it wasn’t being recognized in the bios so while being frustrated started messing with settings and stupidly changed the sata mode from AHCI to RAID when windows was installed on my hdd through AHCI. Now windows won’t start even in safe mode and the recovery...

So i just bought an ssd ofr Rs 4100 to give a new life to my old pc .But only saw slight improvement as oppose to the reviews online. I did some googling to speed up my ssd and downloaded samsung magician software in which trim is activated but AHCI is shown deactivated. Did some googling again...

Hi guys, I just recently built my first PC, however I had the longest time trying to get it to work. So in the beginning when I first booted my PC, it would be stuck at the ASUS logo screen, with press del / F2 to enter BIOS screen. - pressing the buttons did not let me enter BIOS and I was...

Hi Everyone, So here is the breakdown, I am going to keep this as simple as possible. I am helping out a friend with a build that I did a while ago and essentially is now a new build. The first build I did for him just randomly crapped out after two years, literally would not boot. Still not...

Hello all, Yesterday I was using my PC just fine. Today I wanted to boot it up again like normal but now it suddenly said there was no boot option available. Then I go into the bios and see that no M.2 card is being recognized. I go to the advanced tabs and do see under Intel Rapid Storage...

hello, I am helping someone replace a failing hard drive in their old computer. the computer is a Q6600 build and has an asus P5n-w SLI motherbord with 4GB of DDR2 ram. at first they wanted to replace it with an SSD drive but the SSD never gets detected in the BIOS and after reasearching on...

hi , i would share my problem with you guys maybe i got the solution , so i have a second hard disk western digital 500 gb when i put it in the first time it work normaly but when i try to delete some folder in the hard , the hard disk want work again it show me in the dsk management : disk...

i have a problem, my pc is rebooting all the time and try to fix reapir etc and hang's and does not want to start win10. it's the new drivers for ide/sata/ahci from 2017 ! the one's from 2006 worked fine... I found out that if i update pc with driver booster from iobit, it finds new...

I used to have 2 HDDs. 1st :- 250GB (boot drive) 2nd:- 1 TB (secondary drive) Recently I replaced my 250 GB HDD with Samsung 860 EVO 250 GB as a boot drive. Before installing windows, I disconnected my both HDDs and switched from IDE to AHCI in bios. After successfully installing windows, I...