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Installed new SSD & large HD in four year old computer. Latest Dell BIOS installed, but does not support AHCI. Anyway to upgrade BIOS to support AHCI?
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Installed new SSD & large HD in four year old computer. Latest Dell BIOS installed, but does not support AHCI. Anyway to upgrade BIOS to support AHCI?
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speedstep
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February 1st, 2013 08:00
Which Model? Which Bios Version?
Inspiron 530
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Inspiron 530/530s System BIOS
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February 2nd, 2013 08:00
My system is a 530 & already has BIOS 1.0.18 installed. This version of BIOS does not support AHCI. That is why I asked the question, anyway to upgrade BIOS to provide AHCI support.
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February 2nd, 2013 13:00
speedstep
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February 5th, 2013 10:00
You can install a card. Then install drivers for the card.
Then turn off the onboard SATA and switch to a PCI-E x1 card.
HighPoint Rocket 620 PCI-Express 2.0 x1 SATA III (6.0Gb/s) Controller Card
www.newegg.com/.../Product.aspx
The Rocket 600 series are the internal and external low-cost SATA 6Gb/s host adapters. They are fully industry standard AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) compliant and deliver Out-of-Box Ready installation for numerous operating systems. The Rocket 600 series is backward compatible to PCI-Express 1.0 technology and SATA 3Gb/s and 1.5Gb/s devices. They use the same cable and connectors as previous SATA generations to ease integration.
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June 3rd, 2014 23:00
I know this is an OLD post but, if anyone else is interested in getting ahci to work on this machine, just use the raid option. I did and it works ok, just takes a couple of seconds longer to boot.
I did the update of the BIOS to the 1.018 after I had installed win 7 and this setting allowed me to use the ahci setting.
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I did that but am only seeing Raid in Device Manager, not any ACHI device/driver. In another thread someone apparently came up with a BIOS for this hardware that worked, but that info is gone from the internet.
The performance increase is minimal in my testing - though better. The greatest improvement is in random seek.