Soldato
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Sorry for long thread title. 
Two weeks ago I accidentally shut my PC down or sent it to sleep when I was in the middle of something. I'd had a long day and was tired and just hit the wrong option.
After a while I got the PC working again once the BIOS had reset itself to its default settings. It wasn't until later that I realised it had gone into IDE mode and not AHCI for my SSD on W7. I noticed this because the Intel RST logo wasn't showing the green tick to show that the RST service was running.
I set the BIOS to AHCI over the weekend but I've been having problems since then. When I got home today both Outlook and Excel crashed when I opened them. I had to forcibly reset the computer and when I did neither the mouse nor keyboard were working. I pulled the USB cables out and replaced them. I was then able to login but Outlook and Excel crashed again. So I restarted again and put the BIOS into IDE mode. Everything is now working, Outlook, Excel, keyboard and mouse! However I obviously want to get back into AHCI mode.
What do I need to do in the BIOS and Windows to get my PC back into a working AHCI mode? Motherboard is an Asus P5Q-E (LGA 775) and my SSD is an Intel 160GB X25-M I think. Is it possible that when I moved my PC to a new case about month back that I plugged the SSD into the wrong SATA socket and so AHCI isn't working properly?
Two weeks ago I accidentally shut my PC down or sent it to sleep when I was in the middle of something. I'd had a long day and was tired and just hit the wrong option.
After a while I got the PC working again once the BIOS had reset itself to its default settings. It wasn't until later that I realised it had gone into IDE mode and not AHCI for my SSD on W7. I noticed this because the Intel RST logo wasn't showing the green tick to show that the RST service was running.
I set the BIOS to AHCI over the weekend but I've been having problems since then. When I got home today both Outlook and Excel crashed when I opened them. I had to forcibly reset the computer and when I did neither the mouse nor keyboard were working. I pulled the USB cables out and replaced them. I was then able to login but Outlook and Excel crashed again. So I restarted again and put the BIOS into IDE mode. Everything is now working, Outlook, Excel, keyboard and mouse!
However I obviously want to get back into AHCI mode.What do I need to do in the BIOS and Windows to get my PC back into a working AHCI mode? Motherboard is an Asus P5Q-E (LGA 775) and my SSD is an Intel 160GB X25-M I think. Is it possible that when I moved my PC to a new case about month back that I plugged the SSD into the wrong SATA socket and so AHCI isn't working properly?
I'll try the manual fix and see how that works for me.