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No ACHI on Studio XPS 435 MT (2009) ?
I just had a SSD for my birthday, i plugged it right, but when i use the Performance Tool of the SSD, the speed is very low. I checked on internet and people saying I have to activate the driver through regedit (i did it). But when i look at the BIOS I have only 2 choices : ATA / RAID.... no ACHI. Any idea ? (please don't tell me i have to change my motherboard).
Kelbear1
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May 28th, 2013 21:00
You need to select Raid. This will enable ACHI on the SATA ports. You need to do this before the operating system is installed on the new SSD.
NOaMTL
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May 28th, 2013 23:00
Thank you for your answer. But when i want to choose RAID, i have to select 2 disks minimum... (is it because windows is installed on the new SSD ?) (and i got 2HHD without windows installed on it)
Kelbear1
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May 29th, 2013 10:00
Yes. You will need to reinstall windows on the SSD after selecting Raid.
NOaMTL
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May 29th, 2013 13:00
Hi,
I tested few things :
- I tried to safe erase my SSD to become out-of-the-box but no success, with samsung magician, so i used the windows tool to remove partition. (i tried the following things with the SSD with partition and without (but no OS on it))
- I plugged only my SSD and CD/DVD on sata ports
- Tried to turn RAID, but can't
- Tried to plug others disks (HDDs) and i can RAID with 2 disks minimum
conclusion : I don't know why, I can't put RAID for my new SSD (i tried on others HDDs too, same issue, 2 devices minimum)
Thanks again for helping me.
osprey4
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May 29th, 2013 13:00
Hi NOaMTL,
You can select RAID for the controller mode with a single hard drive. It's not necessary to set up an actual RAID disk array.
osprey4
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May 29th, 2013 17:00
Just to be sure we're talking about the same thing, you should be looking in the BIOS (F2) for this setting, not the Intel RAID BIOS (Ctrl-i).
NOaMTL
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May 29th, 2013 17:00
I pressed F2 to change the controler ata to RAID, then i presses Ctrl-i to create the "RAID SSD".
NOaMTL
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May 29th, 2013 19:00
this time i didnt press CTRL-i, but i cant install windows on the SSD... im trying to safe erase it, but it is "frozen"... will give more infos soon