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| Thread ID: 99569 | 2009-05-07 01:23:00 | IDE or AHCI | nofam (9009) | PC World Chat |
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| 771607 | 2009-05-07 01:23:00 | Just got a brand new HP workstation here, and I noticed in the BIOS that the SATA controller mode was set to IDE rather than AHCI. I changed it, rebooted, let windows install the controller, and rebooted again, and it seems quicker (could be my imagination, but I know AHCI enables the use of NCQ). Funny thing is, I'm sure I read somewhere that you couldn't switch from a legacy IDE mode to AHCI without a re-install, or hacking the registry? And is there a noticeable improvement in performance when using AHCI? |
nofam (9009) | ||
| 771608 | 2009-05-07 01:51:00 | If the install of Windows had drivers for both IDE & AHCI then no need to reinstall. | CYaBro (73) | ||
| 771609 | 2009-05-07 03:10:00 | If its Vista it'll work straight off the bat, for XP if you have AHCI drivers installed it should work straight away. In device manager right click the hard drive>properties and make sure in the policies tab Advanced performance and Write caching is enabled. Speeds it up quite a bit Blam |
Blam (54) | ||
| 771610 | 2009-05-07 03:30:00 | Thats what I may do with this once I make a slipstreamed cd with the SATA drivers. Think I'll change over to 64 bit (XP). Thats good enough for me |
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