ACHI mode in w7j

hello i want to purchase a G.SKILL FM-25S2S-120GBSR ssd but i was looking in the comments section and someone said to have AHCI mode enabled in the BIOS first i have BIOS ver. 305 when i look in the conf. the standard Hitachi drive shows up as ide I thought it was sata either way i would like to know if AHCI mode is available to me if there is an option to change to it thanx.

 

did you try to check it IN THE BIOS??

 

I had a W7J and I think there was AHCI in the BIOS setup menu, you'd have to change it away from IDE/compatibility mode. As for the difference between AHCI and compatibility mode with an SSD, it's variable between controllers: SSD Benchmark Tests: SATA IDE vs AHCI Mode | AHCI vs IDE,SSD,AHCI,IDE,SATA,Solid State Drive,Benchmark Performance SSD Testing AHCI vs IDE,Benchmark Performance SSD Testing: Intel ICH10 SATA AHCI vs IDE Mode Speed and IOPS Comparison

 

thanks for answering back guys im on AMI bios ver. 305 for the W7J im going crazy trying to find a way to go into AHCI mode, now hearing others have done it here are some pictures of my bios so you guys can get a better picture of what im going thru, i've tried to get in contact with asus tech support no luck you guys are my only hope.

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc418/kenny0537/IMG_1057.jpg

when you go into the "advanced" settings all that shows up is IDE confing no mention of AHCI mode anywhere

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc418/kenny0537/IMG_1059.jpg

next i go into the IDE config which shows the hard drive and the cd drive i want to change the hard drive settings but im all ready in the IDE controller, anyways i choose the hard drive for wishful thinking

http://i1210.photobucket.com/albums/cc418/kenny0537/IMG_1060.jpg

all there is are some features for the hard drive to be changed around again no mention of AHCI mode maybe a lower version of bios perhaps, don't know but it sounds like people have done it before so any help would be appreciated thanks.

 

I guess there isn't AHCI mode then, sorry.

 

Your HDD is definitely SATA. Did you try to go to default settings and see what this will do? Maybe they are not in advanced settings? Is that really the latest BIOS?
You should find owners thread of this one on this forum I bet they will be able to help you...

 

My memory must be wrong, since it's been quite some time since I had the W7J.

That is the latest bios.

The owners thread is closed (hasn't been active for years): http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus-reviews-owners-lounges/64994-w7j-owners-lounge.html

But the performance penalty for no AHCI won't be too huge on such an older machine with an SSD, since there will be other bottlenecks.