Hi all.
I have a Crosshair IV Extreme MB. My system has originally had an OCZ Vertex 2 180gb SSD (3 gb/s), along with a Seagate 1.5 TB (3 gb/s) HD and a WD 1.5 TB (6 gb/s) HD. Yesterday, I unplugged all drives and peripherals (except usb mouse and ps2 keyboard) and installed an OCZ Vertex 4 256gb SSD (6gb/s). I installed Windows 7 on the Vertex 4, powered down the PC and reconnected the other drives. Everything fired up fine in Windows and was recognized and all. I did notice in the BIOS, btw, that all 4 drives showed up as SATA drives and AHCI was enabled (the same as it did with the original 3 drives when I first installed them about a year or so ago). After doing a little reading online and refreshing my memory on tips to make SSD's perform better in Windows, I saw something that made me think. It was regarding having the system drive (in my case the Vertex 4) in SATA port 1. Then after some more checking I realized that ports 1-6 were the SATA 3, 6.0 gb/s ports and 7-8 were the SATA 2, 3.0 gb/s ports. I checked and sure enough, I had the cables plugged in just willy-nilly. Also, I realized that both my Vertex 4 and my WD were both connected with SATA 2, 3 gb/s cables, and my other two drives (the 3 gb/s ones) were connected with the black/white high speed 6 gb/s cables. Everything just bass ackwards. So I unplugged all drives, connected the high speed cables into the high speed drives (Vertex 4 and WD), the lower speed cables into the lower speed drives (Vertex 2 and Seagate), connected the Vertex 4 into port 1, the WD into Port 2, the Vertex 2 into port 3, the Seagate into port 4, 2 DVD/CD-Roms into ports 5 and 6 and an esata cable into port 7. I cranked it back up and went into the BIOS. Now this is where it gets weird, at least to me, because I'm pretty much a noob, but all 4 drives show up under BOOT SETTINGS/HARD DRIVES as IDE instead of SATA, and AHCI is enabled on all ports (1-6) in the STORAGE CONFIGURATION menu. Also, in the BIOS under Storage Configuration, there's a statement that says to set SB850 SATA speed to [SATA 3.0 Gb/s] to support SATA 3.0Gb/s HDD's with Max. speed of 3.0Gb/s or [SATA 6.0Gb/s) to support SATA 6.0Gb/s HDD's with Max. speed at 6.0Gb/s. So I enabled it to 6.0 gb/s. Saved the changes and let it reboot back into Windows. When Windows came up, it said it needed to reboot for the changes to take effect. I thought maybe the "changes" would be the BIOS showing the drives as SATA now, but no, all 4 drives still show up as IDE instead of SATA. Also, since then, I've heard a crackle-pop sound and it's kicked off and rebooted itself. That's happened twice (so far). Also, while trying to install a couple of programs, nothing happens. I hit OK to install and the dialog box goes away and nothing else happens. I was able to install several other programs just fine, but those other couple of times that it didn't, have me kinda worried. Especially along with the popping and rebooting. I did notice my two (+ and -) power LED wires had slipped off the MB and I reconnected them after the last time it rebooted itself, and it hasn't rebooted again since then (about 30 minutes ago). And I'm currently typing this w/o anything weird happening (except I had SpyBot doing a scan, and when it finished, I clicked on "Delete All", but the program froze up).
Anyway, sorry about the long post, but I wanted to lay out everything that's happened so that you tech savvy ones out there may be able to shed some light on this. Is there anyway I can change the drives to show up as SATA instead of IDE in the BIOS? Is it necessary? My only choices in Storage Configuration are: IDE, RAID or AHCI. All drives are AHCI, but I don't understand why, under Hard Drives in the Boot Settings menu, all show to be IDE instead of SATA.
Any help sure would be appreciated.
Thx.
I have a Crosshair IV Extreme MB. My system has originally had an OCZ Vertex 2 180gb SSD (3 gb/s), along with a Seagate 1.5 TB (3 gb/s) HD and a WD 1.5 TB (6 gb/s) HD. Yesterday, I unplugged all drives and peripherals (except usb mouse and ps2 keyboard) and installed an OCZ Vertex 4 256gb SSD (6gb/s). I installed Windows 7 on the Vertex 4, powered down the PC and reconnected the other drives. Everything fired up fine in Windows and was recognized and all. I did notice in the BIOS, btw, that all 4 drives showed up as SATA drives and AHCI was enabled (the same as it did with the original 3 drives when I first installed them about a year or so ago). After doing a little reading online and refreshing my memory on tips to make SSD's perform better in Windows, I saw something that made me think. It was regarding having the system drive (in my case the Vertex 4) in SATA port 1. Then after some more checking I realized that ports 1-6 were the SATA 3, 6.0 gb/s ports and 7-8 were the SATA 2, 3.0 gb/s ports. I checked and sure enough, I had the cables plugged in just willy-nilly. Also, I realized that both my Vertex 4 and my WD were both connected with SATA 2, 3 gb/s cables, and my other two drives (the 3 gb/s ones) were connected with the black/white high speed 6 gb/s cables. Everything just bass ackwards. So I unplugged all drives, connected the high speed cables into the high speed drives (Vertex 4 and WD), the lower speed cables into the lower speed drives (Vertex 2 and Seagate), connected the Vertex 4 into port 1, the WD into Port 2, the Vertex 2 into port 3, the Seagate into port 4, 2 DVD/CD-Roms into ports 5 and 6 and an esata cable into port 7. I cranked it back up and went into the BIOS. Now this is where it gets weird, at least to me, because I'm pretty much a noob, but all 4 drives show up under BOOT SETTINGS/HARD DRIVES as IDE instead of SATA, and AHCI is enabled on all ports (1-6) in the STORAGE CONFIGURATION menu. Also, in the BIOS under Storage Configuration, there's a statement that says to set SB850 SATA speed to [SATA 3.0 Gb/s] to support SATA 3.0Gb/s HDD's with Max. speed of 3.0Gb/s or [SATA 6.0Gb/s) to support SATA 6.0Gb/s HDD's with Max. speed at 6.0Gb/s. So I enabled it to 6.0 gb/s. Saved the changes and let it reboot back into Windows. When Windows came up, it said it needed to reboot for the changes to take effect. I thought maybe the "changes" would be the BIOS showing the drives as SATA now, but no, all 4 drives still show up as IDE instead of SATA. Also, since then, I've heard a crackle-pop sound and it's kicked off and rebooted itself. That's happened twice (so far). Also, while trying to install a couple of programs, nothing happens. I hit OK to install and the dialog box goes away and nothing else happens. I was able to install several other programs just fine, but those other couple of times that it didn't, have me kinda worried. Especially along with the popping and rebooting. I did notice my two (+ and -) power LED wires had slipped off the MB and I reconnected them after the last time it rebooted itself, and it hasn't rebooted again since then (about 30 minutes ago). And I'm currently typing this w/o anything weird happening (except I had SpyBot doing a scan, and when it finished, I clicked on "Delete All", but the program froze up).
Anyway, sorry about the long post, but I wanted to lay out everything that's happened so that you tech savvy ones out there may be able to shed some light on this. Is there anyway I can change the drives to show up as SATA instead of IDE in the BIOS? Is it necessary? My only choices in Storage Configuration are: IDE, RAID or AHCI. All drives are AHCI, but I don't understand why, under Hard Drives in the Boot Settings menu, all show to be IDE instead of SATA.
Any help sure would be appreciated.
Thx.
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