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DELL BIOS for XPS 435MT does not have AHCI option
HI
I have a DELL XPS 435MT with the newest BIOS update an I cannot find the option in the BIOS
to use AHCI for my hard drive. I have a 1TB Seagate SATA hard drive connected and the only option I
see in the BIOS are RAID or SATA.
Is it just me - or is there something missing ?
Mike
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September 12th, 2009 07:00
I have a 2 TB seagate HD hoping to connect it to my XPS 435MT.
Will the ATA option slow performance?
Davet50
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September 12th, 2009 07:00
SATA is AHCI otherwise there would be an ATA option.
Davet50
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September 12th, 2009 07:00
Yes somewhat but that does not appear to be an issue with the 435 as it only lists Raid or SATA as controller options.
PenguinNest
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October 14th, 2009 21:00
I set my BIOS SATA setting to RAID, even though I have 2 independent (non-RAID) SATA drives and 2 independent external SATA drives. I then installed the latest Intel Matrix Storage Manager from the Intel website, which combined with the RAID setting in the BIOS enabled AHCI on all 4 of my SATA drives. Besides noticeably higher speed, I now have hot-swapping on the eSATA port as well as the SATA port I use for the second external drive (I do use the Safely Remove Hardware icon rather than just pull the drive, of course).