Official GIGABYTE Forum
Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: speedracer on June 09, 2011, 08:57:01 pm
-
Installing Win7 x64 on a new hard drive using AHCI. After the install checked the device manager and found the Standard IDE ATA driver had been installed. Checking the various lines this driver privides the selection of using DMA or not. I downloaded the drivers from the Gigabyte website for the 890FXA-UD5 v 2.1 board and installed. Now when I check the IDE ATA line is just says AMD driver and no other lines or selections for DMA or not. I don't remember if there was even a line for the Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA driver like the one that was initially installed. QUESTION then is: use the AMD driver from the GIGABYTE website and let it go or stay with the drivers that were installed on the initial install. Any other comments are welcomed!!
-
Hi there,
personally I use the standard Microsoft drivers for both the IDE and AHCI controllers as, when I first put my current system together I tested both and found the Microsoft ones actually performed slightly better.
For more info you might like to look through this thread: http://forum.giga-byte.co.uk/index.php/topic,3619.0.html
-
I install the drivers from Gigabyte, give a slight performance increase over the microsoft drivers. The 'IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers' listed in Device Manager are the standard (old) Parallel ATA connector on your motherboard. For the 'AHCI Controller' you need to look under 'Storage Controllers'. But you won't find any DMA there either, it only applies to PATA Drives (the updated microsoft drivers for this remove the DMA option it appears, or maybe it's hidden til an ATA drive is installed). No need to worry cos it doesn't affect your SATA drive. Most of the advanced settings for AHCI are hidden from the user.