Help switching drive controller Intel 750 ssd

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Girugamesh

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Hi, after having some problems with freezes and low speeds, i did some research and realized my Intel 750 ssd was running off the native windows 10 NVME controller and not the intel supplied one. I was wondering if there was any way to switch controller without having to re-install Windows....but either way i'm going to switch the controller, so if you can tell me how to go about doing that it'd be much obliged.

Thanks very much in advance.
 
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Have you downloaded the intel driver package and installed it ?

If so In device manager DELETE the 'standard nvme controller' and power down.

Then power up. Windows will rediscover and reload the driver for that device. The intel driver will be on your system and windows will find it.

If windows does not load the intel driver then double check with intel support. Often Windows picks up a driver and the manufacture stops shiping their own.


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Look in the manual for your motherboard. Some of those SATA port connectors are run by the Intel, and are normally one color, and the rest run off of another controller and normally differ in color from the Intel driven ones.

Alternatively, since the ports are colored differently, just change to a SATA connector that is a different color. Then benchmark the SSD again.
 
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By "...i did some research and realized my Intel 750 ssd was running off the native windows 10 NVME controller and not the intel supplied one. " you mean the driver used by Windows to access the disk. You can confirm your research by going into device manager and displaying the driver used.
you can update which driver is used simply by re-installing the intel driver package for the Intel 750. This page has the NVMe drivers: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/product/79678/Intel-SSD-750-Series

BUT.. what tests are you doing to see that the drive is slow ? SSDs are really really hard to measure.
 
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Girugamesh

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I didn't do any tests, more like my computer keeps freezing at random intervals and feels slower than I feel it should, you're right maybe I'm expecting more speed from it than it can give and maybe its running perfectly fine, but i'm just assessing ways I THINK can make it faster incase I did something wrong in the installation process.

The image on the right is from the intel website, and the one on the left is my PC: http://imgur.com/imZHIfG

I've tried downloading the intel ssd fireware updates that are supposed to change the controller over to look like the image on the right but it hasn't changed anything, I feel like I'm misinterpreting something along the way.
 
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Have you downloaded the intel driver package and installed it ?

If so In device manager DELETE the 'standard nvme controller' and power down.

Then power up. Windows will rediscover and reload the driver for that device. The intel driver will be on your system and windows will find it.

If windows does not load the intel driver then double check with intel support. Often Windows picks up a driver and the manufacture stops shiping their own.


 
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Girugamesh

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After scanning my system, the link MarkW gave me doesn't say there's anything to download, it seems like more of a tool for board / cpu updates.

Update: I managed to get it working using Tsnor's method, thanks mate, hopefully this will improve my performance and fix some of my freezing problems.
 
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