SSD with GA-880GM-UD2H Rev 1.4 Bios F8

[Philtronic]

HI all first post. Could anyone help me with installing my new OCZ Solid 120GB SSD.
The SSD is recognised when the BIOS is set to Native IDE, but not when I set it to AHCI. Anyone out there had similar problems and knows a fix? The SSD is in SATA 2_0 position and I have a normal hard drive and DVD Drive in Positions 4 &5.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome.

When you say that the SSD drive isn't recognised under the AHCI mode but is under IDE do you mean that it shows up on the BIOS ATA port information when IDE mode is selected ?

This is often the case but there is nothing wrong. You should be able to find the drive everywhere else.

[autotech]

If you are using a SSD with windows 7 then achi is preferred all you have to do is load the drivers for achi when installing windows 7 pretty simple if you already loaded W7 then there is a registry mod that you can do to make it see it in achi mode just google it.

[Philtronic]

Thanks for the replies.I managed to sort it out. When i said i couldn't see the drive, i was looking at IDE drives, but when I looked at the HDD boot order it was there showing as SCSI-0 : PORT :0-OCZ-SOLID3. So I made it the first drive and away it went and as I'd done the registry hack Win7 loaded the drivers. Now when I check the drive with AS SSD Benchmark it has gone from a score of 124 to 394 and the difference in performance is quite marked. AS SSD was showing the IDE as bad now it shows AHCI as OK.
I had hoticed before that the drive was showing as SCSI but I thought that it was wrong so put the setting back to NATIVE IDE. Anyway it has ended well and I hope that someone else will see this and will be able to solve the same problem.

[Dark Mantis]

Yes it is a bit confusing to start with and you wonder why the drive isn't being displayed. It is a bit of a throwback to the old IDE days. Hopefully as UEFI becomes more prevallent all this sort of thing will dissappear.