Not sure windows in running in AHCI mode

vila

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Did a new built about 6 weeks ago with Win 7 with my existing crucial M4 64 gig SSD as boot disk but with new processor and Asus P8H77-I all for a HTPC


After running for about 6 weeks started to have problems with the system crashing - going to a dos type screen referencing the boot disk....


Did checked the bois and realised the HDD's where set to IDE mode, switched this to AHCI and did a fresh reinstall. However Im not convinced windows is running the drives in AHCI mode - if i download the latest intel rapid storage drivers for my MB from the Asus website they wont install saying the hardware is not compatible?

Is there a way to check how windows 7 is seeing the drives rather than the bios?
 
Just thought id update this in case anyone has similar problems in the future for search.


Installed a SSD benchmark and it was running in windows in IDE mode despite saying AHCI mode in the bios - even a regedit and finally a reinstall wouldnt fix...

update the bios to the latest version and all is fine so seems there was a problem with the default bios shipped with the P8H77-I MB
 
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