Greg,
Thank you for this share. I too ran into this AHCI/IDE-ATA business when
I upgraded to my current clutch of Asus P5Q3 Intel P45/ICH10R m/b's. I
read the booklet; thought I understood it, and, tried AHCI. Did not
work; or, I did not know/do all the full preliminaries properly. I got
NOBOOT using WinXPsp3. I freaked!
I managed to reset my bios and all has been superb since. I have never
gone back to try AHCI again. Once burnt, twice shy!
Now that I've followed the SSD thread, I am even more scared to try them
on my current "hi-tech" machines......... :)
But, I am really amazed at the G2 SSD's performance. The future looks
very bright again.
Best,
Duncan
On 01/08/2010 08:42, Greg Sevart wrote:
Yes. In general, you cannot swap freely between AHCI and IDE/ATA modes, as
this can result in a no-boot situation. You can usually just swap it back
and be back up and running, though. Interestingly, I have had machines
(notably, our fleet of Dell Latitude D630's and E6400's under Vista and W7)
where I COULD freely swap between the two--not sure what the difference is.
There are some steps you can take to make the change without reinstalling
the OS.
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It is a Gigabyte P35-DS4, Revision 2.0. It's a fairly old mobo, now.
Award Bios F14, recently updated.
Yeah, not much said about it. Pretty scary that one setting like this
can render a system unbootable...
At least Windows Backup& Restore worked in this instance...it was
truly
lovely to be back up so quickly.
