GB BIOS settings after adding SSD

[Baltais]

Hi.

I just installed a new SSD in my system and reinstalled win8.1 on it. Everything seemed to me OK until first restart. Then the CD room stopped working - i can still open/close it but it does not read any cd's I put in it.

Then i started poking around BIOS and reading around. The CD/DVD is detected in BIOS. However I have a feeling that there is something weird going on there. Shouldn't they be neatly aligned starting channel 0? And should there still be master/slave if i'm using separate cables for each?

Is there any differance in which order I plug them in to motherboard? I have cluster of 4 stata ports on MB and I just added the SSD to next free and now I have: HDD - port 0, CD/DVD - port 1, SSD - port 2.


Furthermore, I noticed that the primary boot hard drive is set to the HDD not the SSD, so I tried to set the SSD as fist drive to boot from. This prevented the windows to start loading which is a bit confusing. since windows is installed on SSD not the HDD and aparently it will still go to SSD then after it fails to find windows on the HDD. Any thoughts on this?

Finally, I noticed that the OnChip SATA Type is set to Native IDE. As I understood after googling around that changing it to AHCI might boost the perfrormance so I'm planning to do that. Any warnings against it? Or any tips how should I do this correct?

 

[Baltais]

Ok. Seems that I figured some stuff out myself. I plugged in the CD ROM in different SATA port and that solve the trick of it not working - plugged in one of the separate ports- port 5.

Also seems that I figured why windows does not boot if I set the SDD as the primary booting Hard Drive. It looks like windows installed on the SSD, but it created the "System Reserved" partition that it normally does when installing windows on the HDD (beats me why it chose to do so). Will that actually impact speed that the system be running at? Or that partition is only used on boot? Or it is not used for boot (in which case it is still a mystery why i can't put the SSD as primary boot hard drive)?

 

[norsestar]

Windows will try to put the "System Reserved" partition on a different disk if available (I'm not sure why). You can force it to be on the SSD by disconnecting the HDD when installing Windows (which is what I've heard you should do, but without knowing why Windows wants to put it elsewhere I can't say whether that's good advice or not).

 

[Baltais]

Yeah. Well currently I do not actually see any problems with it, because it seems to work (unless of course I would want to remove my other hard drive - but I'm not planning to do that anyways). So I'm just gonna leave it as it is