Samsung Magician Lying?

[gidgiddonihah]

While my brand new Samsung 840 Pro is on a AHCI activated SATA II port (all I have) Samsung Magician says I am not ("AHCI is disabled for one or more connected SSDs. System must boot into AHCI mode for best performance"). When I try the registry trick the value is already set to 0 and when the system boots my BIOS lists all of the AHCI devices and my SSD is one of them. Any ideas on why Samsung's software says otherwise? Other threads out there have been no help (including the bumped thread - didn't want to hijack a dead thread).

(edit) It also says my current OS does not offer TRIM support yet I enabled it in the command prompt.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Perhaps the software is simply mistaken, or malfunctioning? Is there a particular reason you are using the Samsung software?

 

[gidgiddonihah]

Perhaps the software is simply mistaken, or malfunctioning? Is there a particular reason you are using the Samsung software?

Because it came with the drive and it has made the normal setup for a SSD very easy.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Well, if AHCI is enabled in BIOS, and you open Device Manager and see the AHCI drivers being listed under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers section, you should be fine. I would see no need to continue using the software once you have migrated to your SSD.

 

[gidgiddonihah]

Well, if AHCI is enabled in BIOS, and you open Device Manager and see the AHCI drivers being listed under the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers section, you should be fine. I would see no need to continue using the software once you have migrated to your SSD.

Just wanted to make sure that this was the case. I was blown away when Windows 7 booted clean for the first time. It went straight from "Starting Windows" to a usable desktop. Amazing . It is much faster than my old Kingston SSD (which decided to poop out). Though I am a bit sad I am only getting around 270 MB/s for read and write due to it being on a SATA II port.

This makes me really want the 512GB model for my SATA III enabled laptop, but it is WAAAAYYYY out of my price range right now. Maybe if I save all of my pennies... 😀

Thanks for your quick replies!

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Hey, no worries. If not me, hopefully somebody is awake on Tom's. 🙂 I wouldn't sweat the software. Of course, I don't know why the programmer(s) were able to make it migrate your data correctly, yet can't identify your AHCI as being on or off correctly. Maybe it wasn't deemed cost effective to fix that feature, as it's not necessary to the proper functioning of the software?

 

[gidgiddonihah]

Hey, no worries. If not me, hopefully somebody is awake on Tom's. 🙂 I wouldn't sweat the software. Of course, I don't know why the programmer(s) were able to make it migrate your data correctly, yet can't identify your AHCI as being on or off correctly. Maybe it wasn't deemed cost effective to fix that feature, as it's not necessary to the proper functioning of the software?

I was going directly from a BSOD'ed out computer to a fresh install of Windows on my new, blank drive. All of my real data was backed up on my external drive and/or stored on alternative hard drives (SSD was just the boot drive) and I plan on doing manual copying. Didn't even try to migrate data with fancy software 😉.

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Oh, even better! I don't recommend migrating if you have the choice of a fresh install. 🙂

 

[gidgiddonihah]

I love the feeling of a fresh install of Windows. Its so fast and clean feeling 🙂. Its a chance to get rid of all that gunk and any other possible future BSOD complications. If I have an excuse to do so, I fresh install.

What's funny is I just learned my XPS L502x supports SATA III. I just have always assumed Dell cheaped out where they thought no one could notice like they usually do. Saying I was ecstatic when I found out is putting it mildly .

 

[bigpinkdragon286]

Haha, I know what you mean about Dell. I think in the long run, they just use the equipment that's commonly available, and in your case, you lucked in with the SATA III. 🙂

 

[gidgiddonihah]

Haha, I know what you mean about Dell. I think in the long run, they just use the equipment that's commonly available, and in your case, you lucked in with the SATA III. 🙂

Think I am going to bed. Thanks for all of your help.

 

[gidgiddonihah]

Hey I figured out why the software was confused (I am having a crapload of problems with the machine so I am going through and trying everything to fix it). I had the chipset driver installed which also installed the AMD SATA controller driver. Replacing that with the standard Windows ACHI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller (device manager -> IDE ATA/ATAPI Controller -> right click -> update driver software -> browse my computer for driver software -> let me pick from a list -> Windows ACHI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller -> Next -> Restart) worked for it.