Boot issue, AHCI - IDE, P8P67

[mast3r]

Hi guys,

I have some issues with the beast.

Ready for my LAN next week i have reloaded all of my PC's in prep, last to do was mine, Whilst i was downloading all of the drivers from the Asus website, i decided to update my BIOS on my first edition P8P67 Pro, (i will get round to sending it back for a swap out)

At this point my PC was all OK, and running sweet as a nut,
P8P67 Pro
2600k
60gb Vertex 2 (OS)
300gb Vel Rap
2x 1500GB WD Greens

I updated my BIOS from the BIOS Itself... my PC didn't boot, did some playing around, set SATA to IDE and not AHCI and it booted up, albeit slower, but i think that was down to the other HDDs being indexed.

When i put things back to AHCI it BSODs on loading windows.

SO, Do i want to get AHCI working or will IDE be just fine, i do not have a RAID array.

(i am not sure if i had it on AHCI or IDE prior to updating the BIOS)

Thanks All

 

[stulid]

Its windows that needs to be told to use AHCI.

You need to alter some registry setting or something etc, then reboot, go into the BIOS and then change to AHCI.

http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=444831

Or just do a complete re-install with AHCI set from the start in the BIOS.

 

[mast3r]

thanks for that pall,
I must have had my previous installed with IDE set and not AHCI then?

I have spent the last 6 hours re-loading all my games, if i can get away with out doing all that again, then sweet!
lol

What is the difference between AHCI and IDE anyway