Bios setting for hard drive/SATA?

[Xee]

Have a "Gigabyte GA-MA78GM-S2H AMD 780G" and a Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB installed running Windows 7.

Do I want to be running the OnChip SATA Type in "Native IDE" or "AHCI" mode? At the moment its running fine in the Native IDE mode, but it wont boot Windows if I choose AHCI mode. Am I missing out on performance or features running native IDE? Its just something that has been bugging me for a while.

From bios manual:

Native IDE: Allows the SATA controller to operate in Native IDE mode. (Default)
Enable Native IDE mode if you wish to install operating systems that
support Native mode, e.g. Windows XP.

AHCI: Configures the SATA controller to AHCI mode. Advanced Host Controller
Interface (AHCI) is an interface specification that allows the storage driver to
enable advanced Serial ATA features such as Native Command Queuing
and hot plug.

 

[Xee]

I see, so if I want to enable AHCI now, should I do this?

To resolve this issue, enable the AHCI driver in the registry before you change the SATA mode of the boot drive. To do this, follow these steps:

1. Exit all Windows-based programs.
2. Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
3. If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
4. Locate and then click the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
5. In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
6. In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
7. On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.
8. Change bios setting to AHCI

Also if I had enabled AHCI mode in bios prior to installing Windows 7, windows would have enabled AHCI by default?

 

[Xee]

Well tried the above and it worked just fine