IDE or AHCI ??

[Dark Mantis]

Great news! Happy it all worked out for you and thanks for letting us know.

[Lsdmeasap]

thanks for all the advice, I installed a new SSD today...switched over to AHCI, re-installed windows 7.
everything working flawlessly !!

awesome

Nice to hear all went smoothly!

[dimmy32]

ypu, and just for fun, here are some picts of the rig you guys have helped me out on !

https://picasaweb.google.com/masterslimes/DimmyComputer#

[Dark Mantis]

Hey, it's looking very nice now. Just needs a little cable management and it would be perfect.

[Lsdmeasap]

Nice build man!   I like blue   

[dimmy32]

thanks! blue and sexy silver !

I did tie-wrap up some loose cables. I call my computer "wife#2"

[Dark Mantis]

Is that because she likes bondage or because you spend more time with the computer? 

[dimmy32]

well i would call her wife #1, but the human wife would get jealous !

[GoodBytes]

As this was not explained:

Reasons why you want AHCI:
 -> NCQ support (increase HDD performance)
 -> TRIM support (prevents the SSD performance reduce over time) (Win7 and up)
 -> eSATA support
 -> Hot swappable feature
 -> Full SATA speed (not really, it depends on the controller. Some don't speed limit itself)

Only use IDE for legacy OS such as Windows XP. Modern OS, such as Vista and newer, use AHCI (or RAID if you have one)

[Dark Mantis]

Yes I would concur with GoodBytes on most of the above remarks apart from that TRIM is available in IDE mode as well as AHCI.