Hello. Can anyone confirm if I've got my new Samsung 830 SSD in the correct SATA port, as it's a bit confusing in BIOS. I get 28 seconds from reboot to desktop, so I'm assuming all is connected as should be?
My motherboard is a 3 year old GA-MA770-UD3 rev 2.0 and has six yellow SATA ports labelled 0,1,2,3,4,5.
In BIOS, I switched to AHCI before installing the OS, and I set 'OnChip SATA Port 4/5' to 'As SATA Type', and the description of that is "Set SATA Port 4/5 mode as SATA Port 0-3".
In the Samsung manual it suggests having the SSD in the lowest numbered port. I'm assuming that would give the best performance.
I've put my 830 in the port actually labelled on the motherboard as port 4. Because of the 'OnChip SATA Port 4/5' ('Set SATA Port 4/5 mode as SATA Port 0-3'), do I assume that port 4 is now port 0? i.e, I'm already in the lowest numbered port as per the 4/5 SATA type setting?
The SSD doesn't work in my physically labelled 0 to 3 ports (it says disk failure in those), and only works in ports 4 and 5. Is that how it should be?
I have my DVD and second WD hard drive in the physically labelled ports 0 and 1. As the PC boots, it shows this order in the POST for a couple of seconds:
0000 1TB HDD
0001 Optiarc DVD
0002 Samsung 830 SSD
It's like I can't get the SSD to be first in the order, and my OS is installed to the 830. But it does show priority to the samsung as the first hard disk when in one of the BIOS screens, so maybe it's ok? I have installed the latest chipset drivers which sped up my boot time in AHCI, these:http://support.amd.com/us/gpudownload/windows/Pages/raid_windows.aspx
and reflashed the board to the latest BIOS which knocked another 8 seconds off my boot time. So I'm really just wondering if I've done all I should and am getting the best results my motherboard can give me. The SSD is SATA 3 and this motherboard is SATA 2, so I'm aware I'm not getting full performance from the SSD. Thanks for any help.