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SNAAKE:
got it thx :burgerking:

any idea what "pciide - BAD" means?

HaRuMaN:
Did you switch your motherboard controller to AHCI mode?

SNAAKE:
computer wont start if I switch to AHCI.

tired without other drives but no luck. not really problem. everything is working fine. I was just wondering what it means.

Red:

--- Quote from: SNAAKE on November 29, 2011, 12:04:46 pm ---got it thx :burgerking:

any idea what "pciide - BAD" means?

--- End quote ---

Hey SNAAKE,

The "pciide - BAD" bit means you are NOT in AHCI.  Not that anything is wrong. 

DillonFoulds:
SNAAKE, google up how to slip-stream SATA controller (AHCI) drivers into your windows installation. It'll typically require a fresh installation of Windows. You may get by with just adding the drivers into your windows installation, and then switching to AHCI mode in your BIOS, but I doubt it. For slip-streaming drivers, you'll need N-Lite, an extracted ISO of your windows disc, and text-mode drivers for your SATA controller.

Basically, when your SATA card is running in legacy mode (ATA), you can expect the speeds to be negotiable. From the couple times I've "bench marked", in windows system profiler I typically see between .5 and 1.0 performance difference on Primary Hard Disk.

Here's a pictorial of the process I suck at describing. It was the first thing that came up in google, but after a quick skim, it looks to be accurate.
http://komku.blogspot.com/2007/11/integrate-driver-into-windows.html

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