Some advice please on a Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3 SSD Install

[ShuDog]

Hi,

I'm currently waiting on a Samsung 850 Evo 500Gb to install into my system with a fresh install of windows 7 to finish off my rebuild

My Gigabyte board is as stated a 990fxa-ud3 with the latest FE drivers

I currently have 3 Sata HDDs which i will keep in the system for games, files , work etc. one of which is currently hosting the OS, and 2 DVD drives, one of which i will be removing.

My question is what are the correct setting on my bios to install the SSD in AHCI mode? theres multiple mentions of Sata controllers etc in the bios

Ive played around with different setting to see whats what, but I'm not sure about it

My aim is to install the OS from the DVD onto the SSD and have it booting windows and the 3 sata HDD's visible in there for me to use, I'm not worried about them not showing up in bios as the SSD will be my main concern for the new OS

Also, and i know this is an old thing, but do the jumpers on the HDD need to all be put into slave, or will this not matter at all

Any help would be greatly appreciated so i can know what i need to do get on with once the drive arrives...

 

[i7Baby]

Your bios default will be AHCI. You can change the mode in bios for each drive that you have connected.

No jumpers are needed. You put the SSD as first in boot priority once you have put Windows on it.

See http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/installing-reinstalling-windows#1TC=windows-7

 

[plaintuts]

Remove all other hdd before installing the OS

Just the dvd drive and the ssd, to prevent conflicts

If you have jumper select on the hdd, put it on master

 

[ShuDog]

@i7Baby - When i select the optimised defaults, its returns all the settings to IDE not AHCI

 

[ShuDog]

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/Uu1lZOg6y-Y/maxresdefault.jpg

This is the setting page i need to know how to set up correctly, Im not sure what options should be changed or disabled

Thanks for your responses so far, its greatly appreciated

I have installed window many times just not using an SSD or with AHCI

 

[i7Baby]

Post your complete and detailed build.

 

[ShuDog]

Ocz 750 psu
Gigabyte GTA 970
And fx 8350
Gigabyte 990fxa-ud3
Sound blaster Z
Sound blaster audigy zs2 (for midi)
1 Sata DVD writer
3 sata hdds

 

[ShuDog]

Oh sorry and 12gb of DDR 1333 which I may upgrade if you think it's worth it or may cause any kinda bottleneck

 

[ShuDog]

GTX 970 lol damn auto correct!

 

[i7Baby]

1 Sata DVD writer
3 sata hdds

any more detail?

 

[ShuDog]

Oh sorry,

Hitachi HDS721010CLA332
Samsung HD103SJ
WDC WD20EARX-00PASB0
HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH24NS95

If you could advise on the bios setting and function in the pic i showed eralier that would be great, cheers for getting back to me and trying to help

 

[i7Baby]

If AHCI doesn't work, try IDE - http://www.diffen.com/difference/AHCI_vs_IDE

 

[ShuDog]

Yes I know thats the case, what I'm looking for is advice on the bios set up options, I'll have to close this thread and re ask the question with more detailed info from the start as i may not have being clear enough with my original post, thanks for trying to help out

 

[i7Baby]

Just leave the bios at default settings. You might need to enable XMP to bring your ram up to speed. That's it.

Read your mobo manual.

 

[ShuDog]

Do you not consider AHCI as that much of a nesecity when it comes to SSD's then? I thought it had to be activated to enable TRIM? or again, is that not the be all and end all either?

 

[ShuDog]

I have submitted a more detail bios request thread, do I need to conclude this one?

 

[ShuDog]

I'll now have to try and find the XMP option if its there in my bios