Hi guys, new here, quick question about initial install

[jacob]

Been reading the forums here and some really good helpful advice so I thought I'd post here.

My build is an i5-2500k with the Z68X-UD4-B3 mobo with 8G RAM.
Everything is running fine and I enabled AHCI after I installed Win7-64.

I'm getting a new HD and going to reinstall again, should I be enabling AHCI in the BIOS before installing Windows?
Anything else that I should enable or disable in BIOS before installation?  Like XMP?

Thanks in advance.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome.

I would advise selecting AHCI mode before doing the Windows instal but it is not irreversable if you don't.

[Tinker]

The following link may be useful to you.

http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,6330.0.html


Regards tinker.

[StueyF]

Hi and welcome.

I would advise selecting AHCI mode before doing the Windows instal but it is not irreversable if you don't.

After extensive research i have noticed GIGABYTE need! to pay attention to its customers/consumers as majority newbies to these motherboards dont understand the functions properly, my advice is lookup every option and do searchs for what the purposes for each option first before altering them, i should know im still learning, each motherboard manufacturer has renamed there options in bios differently. As for the ACHI i have noticed when i enabled this option first it did not show that it recognised any of my drives or hdd's.

[Dark Mantis]

I would have to agree here that manufacturers in general don't make their manuals as user friendly as they could by any means. The BIOS is a good case in point and most of the entries there are not explained at all let alone in detail. It wouldn't take much work to instead produce a manual that was actually helpful to the novice.