Solved Switch AHCI TO IDE (Tutorial HowTo) !!!

Wierd , no one posted something like : Good job or something :-? maybe no 1 needs this :-?? i dont know ...

I certainly did Roli, thanks very much. ;-)

I had swapped from IDE to AHCI thinking it would work miracles, well it didn't and things are actually faster back in IDE mode.

Thanks again.
 

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  • Operating System
    Win 10 Pro x64 x 2
    Manufacturer/Model
    Alienware ALX x58
    CPU
    Intel® Core™ i7-975 Extreme O/C to 4.02 GHz, 8MB Cache
    Motherboard
    Asus® P6T Deluxe V2 X58 LGA1366
    Memory
    24GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 4096MB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295 Dual Core
    Sound Card
    Onboard Soundmax® High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung XL2370 HD LED backlit 23" W/S 2ms response time
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500gb SATA II
    1 x 1TB SATA II
    1 external eSATA LaCie 3TB
    (Non-RAID)
    PSU
    Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU
    Case
    Unique
    Cooling
    4 case fans @ CPU water cooling.
    Internet Speed
    1gb/s up and down
I'd like to try your solution to my problem of a disappearing SATA drive (LG Blu-ray BH12LS38).

The motherboard is ASUS M3N78-VM. Operating system is Windows 7 Home edition.

My trouble is that when I try to reset the BIOS, there are only three choices given: SATA, AHCI, and Raid. "IDE" is not one of them. The BIOS is currently set to SATA.

Might I get the Blu-ray drive up and running by installing a SATA card in an unused PCI slot?

Many thanks!
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    no-name
    CPU
    AMD
    Motherboard
    ASUS M3N78-VM
    Memory
    2 gigabyte
    Graphics Card(s)
    NVidia
    Sound Card
    Nvidia
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung
I'd like to try your solution to my problem of a disappearing SATA drive (LG Blu-ray BH12LS38).

The motherboard is ASUS M3N78-VM. Operating system is Windows 7 Home edition.

My trouble is that when I try to reset the BIOS, there are only three choices given: SATA, AHCI, and Raid. "IDE" is not one of them. The BIOS is currently set to SATA.

Might I get the Blu-ray drive up and running by installing a SATA card in an unused PCI slot?

Many thanks!

SATA is IDE on your board. Not sure about your idea for attaching a Blu-ray drive as those would normally attach to a SATA socket elsewhere on the motherboard.
What optical drive do you have now? Do what I did and simply swap your existing optical drive for Blu-ray because it is backwards-compatible and will handle 'lesser' disks. You can also get them with Lightscribe if you use that.

I see that there are such things as SATA plug-in PCI cards for plugging in external optical drives: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1455
 
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My Computer

System One

  • Operating System
    Win 10 Pro x64 x 2
    Manufacturer/Model
    Alienware ALX x58
    CPU
    Intel® Core™ i7-975 Extreme O/C to 4.02 GHz, 8MB Cache
    Motherboard
    Asus® P6T Deluxe V2 X58 LGA1366
    Memory
    24GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 SDRAM at 1600MHz - 6 x 4096MB
    Graphics Card(s)
    1792 MB NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 295 Dual Core
    Sound Card
    Onboard Soundmax® High-Definition 7.1 Performance Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung XL2370 HD LED backlit 23" W/S 2ms response time
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    2 x 500gb SATA II
    1 x 1TB SATA II
    1 external eSATA LaCie 3TB
    (Non-RAID)
    PSU
    Alienware® 1200 Watt Multi-GPU
    Case
    Unique
    Cooling
    4 case fans @ CPU water cooling.
    Internet Speed
    1gb/s up and down
Very Good Solution, i try it and everything works great. thks
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    acer aspire
    CPU
    acer
    Motherboard
    asus
    Memory
    4 gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia
    Sound Card
    none
    Monitor(s) Displays
    acer
I've problem, I hope you will help me. Changing the values from 1 to 0 i could not find the folder "IASTOR". I just found the folder "iastorV" but not the "iastor".
How can it be? Please anyone help me! It's important
 

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I've problem, I hope you will help me. Changing the values from 1 to 0 i could not find the folder "IASTOR". I just found the folder "iastorV" but not the "iastor".
How can it be? Please anyone help me! It's important

I Have the same problem as you. I tried to boot in IDE without changing "iastor" but i got BSOD. I cant find which register file he put to download
 

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System One

  • CPU
    AMD A8-3870K
    Motherboard
    MSI A75MA-G55
    Memory
    Samsung 30nm 4GBx2, 1600MHz
    Graphics Card(s)
    Sapphire HD6670 LP DDR5
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC887
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung Syncmaster 732N+
In my registry my iaStorv and Msahci are marked 4 at start. Why is that would you know? If I change them my computer wont startup.
 

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System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Samsung NP-R519-FA03UK
    CPU
    Intel Pentium Dual Core T3400
    Motherboard
    R519/R719
    Memory
    DDR2 PC2-6400S
    Graphics Card(s)
    Mobile Intel 4 series Express chipset family
    Hard Drives
    Hitachi
Just register to say thank you very much, really good work. I have same problem with the other that cant find "iaStor" in registri, I just skip this but this is still work for me, maybe not for all pc system. One again thank you for the tutorials. :)
 

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  • CPU
    i3 540 -_-
    Motherboard
    JW H55M -_-
    Memory
    2X2 GSKILL 1333 :)
    Graphics Card(s)
    GEFORCE GTX 480 :)
    Sound Card
    REALTEK -_-
    Monitor(s) Displays
    LG 22" :|
Thanks
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    dell
    CPU
    intel
    Motherboard
    intel
    Memory
    nvidia
    Graphics Card(s)
    nvidia
    Sound Card
    nvidia
    Monitor(s) Displays
    samsung
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