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    SSD in Vaio VPCEB36GM

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by dhaxton, Mar 30, 2012.

  1. dhaxton

    dhaxton Newbie

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    I'm installing a 128G SSD in my Vaio as soon as it arrives from Amazon next week. I'm reading all over the net that I'll have to set AHCI in the BIOS (vs. IDE), before installing Windows on the SSD, but this doesn't seem to be available in any of the BIOS screens. The Intel chipset and Windows 7 both support AHCI and the AHCI drivers are loaded; due to Intel RST I believe. The BIOS vendor (AMI) doesn't have any info on this on their website and refer BIOS questions to the motherboard vendor (Sony). Sony support is less than useless on this question and like previous posters have experienced, support escalation appears non-existent.

    Anyone know the story with SSDs/AHCI? Thanks.
     
    dhaxton, Mar 30, 2012
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  2. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Try download and open a program called "AS SSD benchmark."

    In the top left corner, it should tell you what driver is being used. There is msahci and iastor for AHCI and then there is pciide for IDE mode.
     
    namaiki, Mar 30, 2012
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