AHCI mode - XFX Nforce 680i SLI motherboard

[GodforSaken]

Hello all,

I have XFX Nforce 680i SLI motherboard and today i decided to make a little upgrade to my 6-7 year old system so i bought the new Corsair 240gb LS SSD, http://www.corsair.com/en/ssd/force-series-ls-ssd/force-series-ls-240gb-sata-3-6gb-s-ssd.html and so i made a little research and i saw that everyone was talking about activating the AHCI mode in the Sata configuration for the SSD in the bios which will make the SSD drive work with full speed and whatnot, so as it turns out either i couldn't find anywhere in the bios to activate this option or just my mobo just support it :S which would really suck.

So i thought i'd ask the community maybe i didn't look at the right place in the bios so i was wondering if anyone can help me activate this AHCI for my SSD.

Just for the record i already installed the SSD and running windows 8 64-bit on it right now with no issues, all went smooth without any issues.

this is a link to my mobo:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2007/06/27/xfx_nforce_680i_sli/

please any help would be greatly appreciated.

with regards,

Gfs

 

[saint19]

You need to check your BIOS and look for that option in Devices configuration tab or similar, should be on IDE mode, change it to AHCI and press F10 to save. Reboot the rig and you SSD should now run is AHCI mode.

Keep in mind that not all motherboards comes with that option, more if that motherboard is a little old like yours.

 

[noidea_77]

The Nforce chipset doesn't support AHCI. It's too old.

 

[GodforSaken]

Just looked and didn't find AHCI anywhere in bios.

Im now in BIOS: Integrated Peripherals i have this:

 

[GodforSaken]

The Nforce chipset doesn't support AHCI. It's too old.

So there is nothing i can do about this?

 

[noidea_77]

The Nforce chipset doesn't support AHCI. It's too old.

So there is nothing i can do about this?

Enjoy the speed of your SSD and relax.

 

[GodforSaken]

The Nforce chipset doesn't support AHCI. It's too old.

So there is nothing i can do about this?

Enjoy the speed of your SSD and relax.

Ya but that's the thing without the AHCI option enabled the SSD will work pretty much like any regular IDE hard disk am i wrong?

 

[noidea_77]

The Nforce chipset doesn't support AHCI. It's too old.

So there is nothing i can do about this?

Enjoy the speed of your SSD and relax.

Ya but that's the thing without the AHCI option enabled the SSD will work pretty much like any regular IDE hard disk am i wrong?

No! Even tough everyone i talking about the transfer rate, it is the least important factor. The main difference is the access time, that is less then 1/10 of a HDD.

 

[GodforSaken]

Alrighty, thanks a lot