Hi.
I wasn't sure where to put this so apologies if it needs moving.
I've recently added a 120gb Vertex 2 SSD to my Dad's HP DV9000 laptop.
At first I just did a straight swap as I was waiting for the adapter to come to add the original 160gb 5400rpm drive as storage in bay 2.
The installation of Windows 7 went smoothly and when I checked it was running in SATA 300 mode and trim was working.
Last night I went to add the second hard drive but it blue screened at the Windows logo. On the next reboot I selected start Windows normally and everything went through ok.
The next boot was BSOD, the next one fine as long as I chose start Windows normally and so on, alternating like that.
Startup repair did nothing.
So I formatted the storage drive as it had a working Vista install on it, in case that was somehow causing the problem.
This didn't do anything and at this stage it became impossible to boot to windows with the bios in native SATA mode.
Early on in the process I tried turning off the option for native SATA support in the bios which I had a strong suspicion would cure it...it did but I wanted it to work with the bios in SATA native mode so carried on experimenting.
However, I'm concerned that somehow this would affect performance of the drive in windows but I checked ATTO which seemed to confirm the drive operating at the same speeds (although the smaller sector sizes could have been a little down-can anyone tell me what speeds I should be expecting from this setup?) plus trim was reported as working.
In addition to this, Intel RST service won't start and faults when I try to open the application.
So, what I want to know, is that even though everything seems fine, is there anything to be concerned about running the drives in IDE mode in bios whilst appearing to be in SATA mode once in Windows?
Frustratingly I no longer have access to the laptop and I couldn't find the CPUID program that tells you the SATA mode you are running in so I don't know for sure what it is.
Thanks for your help.
I wasn't sure where to put this so apologies if it needs moving.
I've recently added a 120gb Vertex 2 SSD to my Dad's HP DV9000 laptop.
At first I just did a straight swap as I was waiting for the adapter to come to add the original 160gb 5400rpm drive as storage in bay 2.
The installation of Windows 7 went smoothly and when I checked it was running in SATA 300 mode and trim was working.
Last night I went to add the second hard drive but it blue screened at the Windows logo. On the next reboot I selected start Windows normally and everything went through ok.
The next boot was BSOD, the next one fine as long as I chose start Windows normally and so on, alternating like that.
Startup repair did nothing.
So I formatted the storage drive as it had a working Vista install on it, in case that was somehow causing the problem.
This didn't do anything and at this stage it became impossible to boot to windows with the bios in native SATA mode.
Early on in the process I tried turning off the option for native SATA support in the bios which I had a strong suspicion would cure it...it did but I wanted it to work with the bios in SATA native mode so carried on experimenting.
However, I'm concerned that somehow this would affect performance of the drive in windows but I checked ATTO which seemed to confirm the drive operating at the same speeds (although the smaller sector sizes could have been a little down-can anyone tell me what speeds I should be expecting from this setup?) plus trim was reported as working.
In addition to this, Intel RST service won't start and faults when I try to open the application.
So, what I want to know, is that even though everything seems fine, is there anything to be concerned about running the drives in IDE mode in bios whilst appearing to be in SATA mode once in Windows?
Frustratingly I no longer have access to the laptop and I couldn't find the CPUID program that tells you the SATA mode you are running in so I don't know for sure what it is.
Thanks for your help.
