fault diagnosis

Nodiggidy123 · 18 Jan 2012 at 20:07

after just having to reinstall win 7 after what appeared to be driver related graphical corruption i now am encountering a bsod upon windows boot when my sata controller is set to ahci mode. in ide mode its fine.

has my ssd failed?

Jordan97 · 18 Jan 2012 at 20:10

What was it set to before you installed Windows?

Razargh · 18 Jan 2012 at 20:11

Try restoring windows or running in safe mode.

Nodiggidy123 · 18 Jan 2012 at 20:12

Jordan97 said:
What was it set to before you installed Windows?

i have a feeling i reset everything to defaults which would have meant ide mode.

would that be causing a problem?

RJC · 18 Jan 2012 at 20:12

You might need to check the registry info in the link below before changing to AHCI:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

Jordan97 · 18 Jan 2012 at 20:15

Nodiggidy123 said:
i have a feeling i reset everything to defaults which would have meant ide mode.

would that be causing a problem?

Yes, if you change it after you install Windows, then you will experience a BSoD at startup.

RJC's link will help you fix it.