- Oct 21, 2010
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Hi
I have done a clean install of Windows 10 Home on my daughter's PC, using a brand new Samsung 860 EVO SSD . Motherboard is a Gigabyte F2A55M-HD2 that supports only SATA 2 (NOT SATA 3--It has 4 SATA 2 PORTS). I only realized this after the SSD was purchased and installed.
I did not know that AHCI mode had to be turned on (was IDE by default) in the UEFI before the installation of Windows 10 takes place. When I realized that AHCI was not activated , I went back to the UEFI and turned AHCI on. Upon rebooting, I experienced booting problems. Now, the PC sometimes boots and sometime refuses to boot. It is a mess. When it boots, everything works normally. But, I never know if it will boot or not. And I do not want to give it back to my daughter until I am 100 % certain that it will boot normally, all the time. I am a conscientious person and I believe in "If a job deserves to be done, it deserves to be done right"
I did a lot of research on this on the web and found out this fix which calls for changing 3 or 4 parameters in the registry. It is, in theory, supposed to fix the problem (https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/22631-enable-ahci-windows-8-windows-10-after-installation.html). However, I fear that this may not do as good of a job as reinstalling Windows--do a clean install again, load all programs and configure them etc...You know the drill. Takes a while.
All I am trying to do is fix that intermittent, annoying boot problem. If a clean reinstall is the better way to go, I'll go that way no matter how much work is involved.
Thank you
I have done a clean install of Windows 10 Home on my daughter's PC, using a brand new Samsung 860 EVO SSD . Motherboard is a Gigabyte F2A55M-HD2 that supports only SATA 2 (NOT SATA 3--It has 4 SATA 2 PORTS). I only realized this after the SSD was purchased and installed.
I did not know that AHCI mode had to be turned on (was IDE by default) in the UEFI before the installation of Windows 10 takes place. When I realized that AHCI was not activated , I went back to the UEFI and turned AHCI on. Upon rebooting, I experienced booting problems. Now, the PC sometimes boots and sometime refuses to boot. It is a mess. When it boots, everything works normally. But, I never know if it will boot or not. And I do not want to give it back to my daughter until I am 100 % certain that it will boot normally, all the time. I am a conscientious person and I believe in "If a job deserves to be done, it deserves to be done right"
I did a lot of research on this on the web and found out this fix which calls for changing 3 or 4 parameters in the registry. It is, in theory, supposed to fix the problem (https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/22631-enable-ahci-windows-8-windows-10-after-installation.html). However, I fear that this may not do as good of a job as reinstalling Windows--do a clean install again, load all programs and configure them etc...You know the drill. Takes a while.
All I am trying to do is fix that intermittent, annoying boot problem. If a clean reinstall is the better way to go, I'll go that way no matter how much work is involved.
Thank you
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