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  • Phoenix SSD & M4N98TD EVO MB

    Hi everybody,

    I finally got my SSD configured with all my software installed and everything appears to be functioning normally.

    My current configuration is as follows:
    AMD 1090T BE
    M4N98TD EVO MB
    8GB DDR3-1600 G.Skill Memory

    The SSD drive i bought was the 60GB Phoenix SSD (FM-25S2S-60GBP1). I had good luck with G.Skill components in the past so I felt comfortable purchasing my SSD drive from them.

    When i plugged in the drive, the BIOS immediately detected the drive. So I set the BIOS to AHCI mode, and installed Windows 7. It installed fine. I installed the windows updates, ms office. Then I decided to run the ATTO Benchmark 2.46, the numbers seemed pretty good. Afterwards, I decided to install my video card drivers, restarted, then all of a sudden, my machine could no longer boot from the SSD drive... strange... So i figured i would try again and tried to secure erase the drive however I was unsuccessful using either GParted or HDDErase but after further research, speaking with G.Skill tech support, and because the drive supports TRIM, I would be ok using the Windows 7 Quick format.

    So after cursing either the video card driver or the ATTO benchmark for screwing up my drive, i reinstalled windows... but the installation started to hang... ok... i reinstalled again... and again the installation hanged...

    So i thought about it for a while... because of how AHCI works, it might be causing some problems with partitioning & installation... So i decided to run the installation in IDE mode... and the installation went fine.

    Afterwards, I went into the Windows registry, set msahci/start to 0, reset the BIOS to ahci. I then went into windows, configured some SSD tweaks, installed everything, reboot system, no problems.

    My situation may not be limited to my configuration but i think it's a good idea to first install windows 7 in IDE mode, then set the BIOS to AHCI afterwards.

    AJ

  • #2
    hi AJ

    thank you very much.

    we got some similar issue like yours.
    we think the problem is between AHCI driver and controller.
    thank you for providing us your valuable experience

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    • #3
      Some additional findings...

      I was having an issue with performance and at last i'd found out my problem...

      I'm also running a WD 1TB Western Digital external MyBook drive... I had this running on E-Sata and I noticed that the drive had been patitioned using FAT32... I switched the connection from E-Sata to FireWire and my machine went from taking 30 seconds to boot into windows 7 to 20 seconds... I also converted the drive from FAT32 to NTFS...

      There may have been an issue with this drive and AHCI and could have been the reason i was unable to install Windows 7 using AHCI with this drive attached using E-SATA...

      AJ

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