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    Question: AMD + SATA?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by stewie, Jul 19, 2008.

  1. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    I'm doing a clean install for a friend, his laptop has an AMD processor with Nvidia chipset. I don't really have any experience with AMD stuff and I have a question about the SATA controller. I installed all the drivers provided by the manufacturer, however, in Device Manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers, I cannot see any SATA controller like I see with Intel chipset, is this normal? In the BIOS, there is also no setting to change mode to ACHI, but the HDD is a SATA HDD and even the laptop spec sticker has SATA written on it. :confused:

    CPU: AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50
    Chipset: NVIDIA C51MV + MCP51M
    HDD: HITACHI HTS541612J9SA00 120GB SATA-150
    OS: XP Pro SP3

    Anyone with an AMD CPU can give me some information?

    Thanks.

    :)
     
    stewie, Jul 19, 2008
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  2. mr__bean

    mr__bean Notebook Evangelist

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    I have the same problem, it seems that AMD chipsets mask sata harddrives as IDE so that no extra drivers have to be installed for sata and stuff.. but apparantly at a slight loss of i/o
     
    mr__bean, Jul 19, 2008
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  3. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    Thanks for the quick reply, mr__bean.

    I hope there is no real loss in I/O, cause then it's like fake SATA. :p
     
    stewie, Jul 19, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    Stewie, the harddrive should be under the scsi devices tab. AMD chipsets generally put the sata drive in the scsi section. I hope its there, I know it is there on my AMD laptop.
    Then again, I have a SATA raid controller which also can handle SCSI.

    K-TON
     
    K-TRON, Jul 19, 2008
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  5. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    K-TRON, thanks for the info.

    I checked before, there isn't anything for SCSI in the entire Device Manager. Anyway, I think this is how that laptop works like mr__bean stated.

    :)
     
    stewie, Jul 22, 2008
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  6. miner

    miner Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    Stewie,

    Did you install the Nvidia nforce chipset driver? The nforce drivers should offer you the option to install the SATA drivers otherwise you would be running on the default driver and it will show up in device manger as Nvidia sata controller.
     
    miner, Jul 22, 2008
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  7. stewie

    stewie What the deuce?

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    Miner,

    Yeah I did install the nForce chipset driver, but I didn't see any option for the SATA? :confused: The Nvidia SATA controller, is it supposed to be under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers?

    When I installed the driver package, I checked all 3 options: Ethernet, SMBus, and SMU.

    :)
     
    stewie, Jul 22, 2008
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    If you installed the drivers then no need to worry. Depending on the driver version you may/may not see the presence of the SATA controllers. The older drivers did show up in device manager and the newer ones didnt. Also during installation there should have been a prompt to install the SATA drivers, if you got that then you should be set.
     
    miner, Jul 23, 2008
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