I'm beginning to get REALLY annoyed

[vgbaron]

That seems to be it in a nutshell. Don't know why but that's the way it is.
Do I lose/gain anything by running ahci versus enhanced?

[NickN]

If I tell you will you get upset?

[vgbaron]

LOL if I'm not upset now, I won't be.

bsides - going to be 72 in about 2 weeks - didn't get that old by getting upset easily!

[NickN]

LOL if I'm not upset now, I won't be.

Yes.. you will lose perf on performance hard drives such as WD Raptors. They are being pounded by NCQ, a unneeded cache and read-ahead feature only network servers can take advantage of

Dont have cow.. its not a massive drop in perf but you know every cycle counts.

So just go with what you have.

Whats really strange is you can not shut down AHCI and switch over to ENHANCED IDE. Usually on reboot you go into Windows and windows then installs the ENHANCED IDE driver for the system automatically.. then you reboot again with a huge list of primary and secondary IDE's showing up.. the same number as the SATA ports on the board

Why its not working that way for you is strange.

[vgbaron]

prob my fsult. Didn't reset the boot drive. Going to try again in a minute when windows finishes updates.

[NickN]

prob my fsult. Didn't reset the boot drive. Going to try again in a minute when windows finishes updates.

let it reboot BACK into Windows before you screw with that to be sure the Windows Updates are registered!

then shut down and try

[vgbaron]

same prob. Rebooted - rebooted to setup - changed to enhanced ssaved - rebooted into setup - set boot drive - reboot - windows logo shows briefly then a flash of bsod then reboot.

guess its ahci for a while

[NickN]

Somthing does not like the change

Just leave it

The change to the 64bit OS alone will probably overcome the loss so dont worry about it


Im off to bed   got the flu

[vgbaron]

Know the feeling - been coughing for a week.

Take care and thanx for the help!