AHCI Setting

Tomcat825

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After cloning my Sata to my SSD the other day, I loaded up the BIOS, swapped the mode from IDE to AHCI, saved it and rebooted. When it got half way through loading Windows 7 (It gets to the part where the 4 seperate windows logo piece are circles and are just moving in to form the full logo (They form a square without sides)) it locks up flashes a blue screen then reboots and starts again.
I went back to BIOS and put it back to IDE and it works fine, so I've been using it for the past week and a half or so on IDE setting but decided to try again last night just in case something had changed (you never know!) but same problem, it locks up in EXACTLY the same place.

Anyone got any ideas why this is?? It's still blisteringly quick in IDE mode, but i'd like to get the most out of it. It's an Intel X-25 G2 160gb SSD btw, as in my sig.
Intel's SSD program doesn't seem to pick this up that it's running IDE rather than AHCI in it's tuning thing, but I haven't run the diagnostic part, just the performance tuning so far.

If anyone asks for BIOS revision of my mobo, I won't be able to tell you till 16:30 or so when I'm home from work.
 
Interesting, and this will work even though I'm not sure if I get that error message? The BSoD literally flashes on and off so there's not a physical chance in hell to read it let alone read a specific error message.
 
Your getting a BSOD because the AHCI driver is not running. When you installed Windows on your HDD (using IDE mode) any unused storage drivers were disabled, so cloning the HDD and then turning on AHCI won't work. If you follow that knowledge base article it will resolve your problem.
 
If you get any other BSODs in future and want to be able to read the error message, then you need to turn off the "Automatic restart" setting. There are a couple of ways of doing this - let me know if you want some help :)
 
Ah, is that what causes the instant restart then... I did wonder lol, I'll be able to dig that out of BIOS I imagine, but thank you, will turn it off :P
 
Its a Windows setting rather than the BIOS and can be turned off either:
1) in the "Advanced Boot Options Menu" (hold F8 after BIOS finishes) or
2) it can be found in the Control Panel, once you have gotten Windows booted up
Cheers :)
 
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