I found this forum after experiencing problems trying to hook up a new SSD that I bought. Although I appear to have found a working solution I would be grateful for any advice about if my settings are correct and optimised.
Kit -
GA-P55M-UD2 (rev 1.0) with i5 750 & 4Gb Crucial RAM
OCZ Vertex 2 60Gb SSD
Samsung F3 1Tb
Philips DVD R/W (IDE)
After unplugging the existing HD I installed Win 7 x64 to the new SSD without problem. BIOS for SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (Intel P55 Chipset) was set to AHCI and the SSD was plugged in to SATA2_0. Boot up times put a smile on my face and this was confirmed with a Win Experience score of 7.9 for the drive.
I next updated the drivers for the various mobo bits including SATA with the latest versions from the GB web site.
Problems started when I replugged the Samsung F3 into SATA2_2 - the PC would freeze during boot and on subsequent reboots not even allow me to enter the BIOS. To be honest I tried so many permutations that did not work I have lost track a bit. However, last night I found the Samsung could be 'hot plugged' into SATA2_2 once the OS had loaded from the SSD, so I knew that it was not a physical problem. I then tried the Samsung plugged into GSATA2_0 (the SSD was still in SATA2_0) and set the BIOS Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode to "IDE" (I had previously had these Disabled).
Like this the PC boots up from the SSD and the data on the Samsung can be viewed in Explorer.
So my question is, why does the PC freeze when the Samsung is plugged into any of the 4 blue SATA connectors? I there something I have overlooked? Is my ancient IDE DVD writer the source of the problem (I would be quite happy to get a SATA device and disable all IDE)
Cheers
Pat