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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: brucegriffing on July 12, 2011, 06:54:13 pm
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I have three GX58-UD5 mobo's. On one of them, I am using a Samsung 470 series 256gb ssd. I am running XP 32 under the IDE settings for the controllers. The others have other hardware and behave well, but the one in question will only POST into SATA 1 mode. The LG DVD drive on the machine is also SATA 2 capable, so I cannot understand why it POSTS to SATA1. Is there a way to get this set correctly?
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That is not a big problem because your DVD cannot saturate the SATA port ( in SATA1 or 2 or 3 mode ) !!
Pierre
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The issue is not with the DVD, it is the SSD. Its performance is about half of what it should be.
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OK I fixed it. The answer does not make sense, but here is what I did. First, I forced the correct Intel AHCI driver into the existing IDE based WXP installation. On the blue screen reboot, I set up the Intel SATA controller in AHCI mode. I had only one drive connected and it was connected to the Intel controller. Once I ironed that out, I reconnected the BluRay DVD drive. After everything was working I again ran SSD benchmarks, but they told me that it was running SATA 1 instead of SATA 2. So no joy yet. I then moved the BluRay drive to the Jmicron controller. Still no joy. Finally, I connected a SATA 2 hard drive to the Intel controller in addition to the Samsung SSD. I then ran the Intel Rapid Storage utility. It, like Sandra before it, said that both the SSD and the hard drive were in SATA 2. This time when I ran the benchmark, in fact they were. So I don't know if the good result came from running the Intel utility or adding the hard drive, but it now works well and the fast stuff is under AHCI control.
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Well thanks for the explanation of how you managed to fix things. As you say it is not exactly clear what cured the problem but at least it did. ;)