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I have been trying to troubleshoot an issue I have been having with my one month old NP8690. It is stuck in ATA mode. In the bios setup, the DVDRW and SATA HDD are showing up as IDE devices, and in Windows 7 device manager it is showing up as the same. The strange thing is that the SATA mode is set to AHCI (and is the only available option) however I am certain that AHCI is not working as I can install XP without SATA driver's slipstreamed which would only work in IDE mode.
About every 30 minutes the HDD will stop responding for about a minute. Windows doesn't freeze when this happens, but applications will go to the "Not Responding" state if they try to do anything that accesses the hard drive. After it starts responding again, everything will "catch up" and it seems no data is lost. I am pretty certain that this is related to the above AHCI issue and if I can fix that it should fix this.
Can anyone else check their device manager and/or bios and check if their machine is setup the same way? I am hoping that this doesn't mean trim will not work, once I get an SSD for mine. I remember reading somewhere that it can only work under AHCI.
Oh, and my bios revision is 1.00.18 (KBC/EC 1.00.10) if it matters. I can take screenshots of device manager/photos of the bios if it would help in troubleshooting.
NP8690 Stuck in ATA Mode
Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by win32asmguy, Oct 22, 2010.
