SSD showing as IDE

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I have enabled AHCI in bios, but my SSD is still showing as a IDE drive when I used SSD benchmark tools.

I notice at startup that xInsIDE.exe runs, could this be the problem?
 
Some SATA devices will show up an IDE in BIOS/Device manager. If it works fine then don't worry.
 
I was scoring around 191 in AS SSD, now I am averaging 145.

I have been having some issues with the drive, it was hanging occasionally and I thought it was a driver issue.

I noticed the IDE driver which is running on startup, so wondered if that could be the cause?
 
I'm doing a fresh install of W7.

I have all my sata items plugged into the blue sockets, nothing in the bottom white ones.

The system was behaving really strangely, the HDD light would come on sporadically and the system would hang for 4-5 minutes at a time.

I'm hoping it is a driver issue, and not a failing brand new SSD
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Another thing I have noticed is that the voltages in BIOS for the CPU seems to change quite a bit, even though it is set to auto?
 
Tried a fresh install, now I have a new problem.

Re-installed and PC rebooted, got to the Sata AHCI bios screen, then progressed to the controller bus section and reports:

Bus#00, Device#1F, Function#02: 06 ports, 04 devices

Then nothing. It does not detect anything more?

The whole system is brand new, do I have a hardware failure already?
 
SATA drives are IDE. There is nothing wrong with your system.

Both Parallel ATA (PATA) and Serial ATA (SATA) drives are IDE. Calling PATA drives IDE has become normal and this bad practise had led to your confusion.

The only difference between a PATA and SATA drives is how the data is fired down the line. The disk drives themselves are identical. The difference is the connector and the logic chip that controls the access of data to and from it.

AHCI/SATA II are additional protocols that allow the data to be moved even faster.
 
father-ted said:
Another thing I have noticed is that the voltages in BIOS for the CPU seems to change quite a bit, even though it is set to auto?
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AUTO means just that. The system will vary the voltages as it sees fit. Even if you fix the voltages in the BIOS there are still loading issues that will cause it to vary within specified parameters. These parameters are dictated by the chipset specification and different motherboards either meet or exceed the specification which is why some are better than others.
 
father-ted said:
Tried a fresh install, now I have a new problem.

Re-installed and PC rebooted, got to the Sata AHCI bios screen, then progressed to the controller bus section and reports:

Bus#00, Device#1F, Function#02: 06 ports, 04 devices

Then nothing. It does not detect anything more?

The whole system is brand new, do I have a hardware failure already?
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Generally, the OS will only install the AHCI drivers if AHCI is set on the motherboard BIOS and the hard drive in use is AHCI compatible. There are sometimes more than 1 thing you have to change to get the AHCI fully operational.

If you didn't have everything turned on properly you could re-install the OS as often as you liked and it wouldn't install the AHCI drivers.

The other thing you might want to turn on is "Plug'n'Play" BIOS which should sort most of this out for you. Generally it ships from the factory with "Plug'n'Play" switched off so as not to screw up installations on non Plug'n'Play operating systems.
 
The drive is still showing as IDE, meaning in the bios and after windows loads.

When I enable AHCI on the sata driver, it will not even get to load windows, it shows as loading the sata driver, then this:

Bus#00, Device#1F, Function#02: 06 ports, 04 devices


Then nothing more after that.

I have to power off and reset the bios to get it to boot again, as I cannot get to bios any other way.

Surely this is a driver or bios problem?
 
Hi,

If it was me, I would reset the BIOS, turn on plug'n'play in the BIOS and then set the disk controller to AHCI in the BIOS.

Wipe the SSD and now do a clean install of Win 7. Win 7 will detect the AHCI in the BIOS and it will install the correct drivers for AHCI all by itself.

Doing anything else will not work as far as I'm aware.
 
WJA96 said:
If it was me, I would reset the BIOS, turn on plug'n'play in the BIOS and then set the disk controller to AHCI in the BIOS.

Wipe the SSD and now do a clean install of Win 7. Win 7 will detect the AHCI in the BIOS and it will install the correct drivers for AHCI all by itself.
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If you haven't followed WJA96's advice already in previous posts, do the above - if nothing else is amiss it should resolve your issues.
 
WJA96 said:
Hi,

If it was me, I would reset the BIOS, turn on plug'n'play in the BIOS and then set the disk controller to AHCI in the BIOS.

Wipe the SSD and now do a clean install of Win 7. Win 7 will detect the AHCI in the BIOS and it will install the correct drivers for AHCI all by itself.

Doing anything else will not work as far as I'm aware.
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I already did that on Sunday, still the same problem, plus I am having regular trouble booting.

Last night it booted ok several times, then the wife turned the PC on this afternoon and got a message as soon as the sata driver started to load saying 'disc error'.

I reset the bios and loaded optimal settings, changed the ram voltage and the IDE driver to AHCI, left everything else on auto and it loaded fine.

Either I am doing something wrong in bios or there is a problem with the drive or driver maybe? Its a fresh install of W7.
 
father-ted said:
Is there a program that I can run to test the drive for any problems/errors?
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Corsair may have a utility that you can download to test your drive.

EDIT: although i can't find one - tbh, hdd utilities are usually for magnetic drives.
 
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