Cant do AHCI anymore :(

[Ocnstr]

Hi, so I installed Windows 8 on an SSD a few months ago and had it set to AHCI mode in the BIOS before OS installation and everything worked just fine. Now a few days ago, I got bluescreened with 'KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE'.

The machine rebooted but asked me to reset the BIOS for some reason and I had no choice but to do it. So I did and it went back to IDE mode upon reset. When I try switching to AHCI mode now, the machine will crash and wont go into the OS but if I let it remain on IDE mode it works fine. I don't want to lose out on the performance benefits of AHCI mode. Any suggestions?

PS: I tried the registry hack but the start values in those 2 keys were already set to 0 anyway

 

[drtweak]

well ACHI Has little to no performance on a SSD. For SSD its TRIM. ACHI is mainly for Disk Drives.

Go to your windows folder and then minidump and try to upload all the DMP files to a filesharing site and post back with link so we can look at them

 

[Ocnstr]

Thanks drtweak. This is weird, but there isn't a minidump folder in my windows folder!

 

[popatim]

This is most often caused by a driver issue followed by malware.
Had you installed anything just before this happened?

Edit - I would also check for a bios update.

 

[Ocnstr]

I uninstalled some printers.

 

[drtweak]

try reinstalling your chipset/Controller drivers as well. Also do a Memtest if you haven't done so already. Seems from going a search there are 3 reasons why this happens. 1) Bad drivers 2) Bad memory 3) Cracked version of Windows 8

 

[Ocnstr]

try reinstalling your chipset/Controller drivers as well. Also do a Memtest if you haven't done so already. Seems from going a search there are 3 reasons why this happens. 1) Bad drivers 2) Bad memory 3) Cracked version of Windows 8

It's a pretty old motherboard (Asus P5Q-E) so I doubt there are any BIOS updates. The windows copy is legit. Will run mem-test and get back with the results.

 

[drtweak]

Haha yea im still running an Asus P5N-D so im right there with ya. I would try reinstalling the chipset drivers. Not sure if that is an nForce board like mine but try reinstalling drivers first.