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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: nicoli on November 25, 2013, 08:11:46 pm

Title: motherboard_driver_ahci_nvidia_mcp68_bootdisk_win7-64bit
Post by: nicoli on November 25, 2013, 08:11:46 pm

Mobo - Ga-M68M-S2P (rev. 2.3)
Bios: FC
OS: Win 7 ultimate 64bit
Question: Does the update driver "motherboard_driver_ahci_nvidia_mcp68_bootdisk_win7-64bit" allow Ga-M68M-S2p (rev. 2.3)  mother board to enable AHCI mode?
How do I properly install this update?

Title: Re: motherboard_driver_ahci_nvidia_mcp68_bootdisk_win7-64bit
Post by: Tiger on November 26, 2013, 03:24:53 pm

Ga-M68M-S2P (rev. 2.3)

According to the Gigabyte FAQs for that motherboard:
Does it support AHCI?   
NVIDIA chipset does not support AHCI.

Title: Re: motherboard_driver_ahci_nvidia_mcp68_bootdisk_win7-64bit
Post by: mikeyb5753 on November 26, 2013, 04:38:21 pm

AHCI mode (if available) would be enabled in BIOS.  The device driver wouldn't enable it as such, it would make it functional once enabled.

Title: Re: motherboard_driver_ahci_nvidia_mcp68_bootdisk_win7-64bit
Post by: nicoli on November 27, 2013, 11:47:15 pm

It says it doesn't however why would there be a update for it?
Does that only apply in raid mode?