Solved Switch AHCI TO IDE (Tutorial HowTo) !!!

[Ex_Brit]

Wierd , no one posted something like : Good job or something :-? maybe no 1 needs this :-?? i dont know ...

I certainly did Roli, thanks very much. ;-)

I had swapped from IDE to AHCI thinking it would work miracles, well it didn't and things are actually faster back in IDE mode.

Thanks again.

 

[selvan777]

Better late than never... thanks a bunch for this article.

Here's an interesting read, it helped me decide to stay with AHCI.

AHCI vs IDE – Benchmark & Advantage

 

[RetiredSenior]

I'd like to try your solution to my problem of a disappearing SATA drive (LG Blu-ray BH12LS38).

The motherboard is ASUS M3N78-VM. Operating system is Windows 7 Home edition.

My trouble is that when I try to reset the BIOS, there are only three choices given: SATA, AHCI, and Raid. "IDE" is not one of them. The BIOS is currently set to SATA.

Might I get the Blu-ray drive up and running by installing a SATA card in an unused PCI slot?

Many thanks!

 

[alforati]

i just registered to thank u 4 this nice useful post.
Best wishes!
Thanks Roli

 

[Jeronimo777]

Many Thanks Roli. I have specificaly registered here to express my thank you. You have saved me a lot of hours. Onsce again big thank you.

 

[thanking]

Thanks!!! Saved my day!!!

Registered just to say that!

 

[Ex_Brit]

I'd like to try your solution to my problem of a disappearing SATA drive (LG Blu-ray BH12LS38).

The motherboard is ASUS M3N78-VM. Operating system is Windows 7 Home edition.

My trouble is that when I try to reset the BIOS, there are only three choices given: SATA, AHCI, and Raid. "IDE" is not one of them. The BIOS is currently set to SATA.

Might I get the Blu-ray drive up and running by installing a SATA card in an unused PCI slot?

Many thanks!

SATA is IDE on your board. Not sure about your idea for attaching a Blu-ray drive as those would normally attach to a SATA socket elsewhere on the motherboard.
What optical drive do you have now? Do what I did and simply swap your existing optical drive for Blu-ray because it is backwards-compatible and will handle 'lesser' disks. You can also get them with Lightscribe if you use that.

I see that there are such things as SATA plug-in PCI cards for plugging in external optical drives: http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/category/category_slc.asp?CatId=1455

 

[rkdwv]

Ok. After following your solution, I've got BSOD both on AHCI and IDE modes.

 

[ge100002]

Very Good Solution, i try it and everything works great. thks

 

[UnknowNDX]

Thanks alot for the tutorial. Worked perfectly.

 

[annalisa0108]

I've problem, I hope you will help me. Changing the values from 1 to 0 i could not find the folder "IASTOR". I just found the folder "iastorV" but not the "iastor".
How can it be? Please anyone help me! It's important

 

[ALMNET]

I've problem, I hope you will help me. Changing the values from 1 to 0 i could not find the folder "IASTOR". I just found the folder "iastorV" but not the "iastor".
How can it be? Please anyone help me! It's important

I Have the same problem as you. I tried to boot in IDE without changing "iastor" but i got BSOD. I cant find which register file he put to download

 

[charlyz]

Thank,
really good work

 

[Joebhoy]

In my registry my iaStorv and Msahci are marked 4 at start. Why is that would you know? If I change them my computer wont startup.

 

[langenbacher]

2) Download my registry fix

How?

 

[antonywoo]

execuse me..where is the download of ur fix? thanks!

 

[arvin0]

Just register to say thank you very much, really good work. I have same problem with the other that cant find "iaStor" in registri, I just skip this but this is still work for me, maybe not for all pc system. One again thank you for the tutorials.

 

[c129608]

Thanks

 

[saelnaydar]

Hello,

I did it once and it worked but i didnt took the file

where is your registry fix please ? need a link to download it.

 

[PERSAN]

merci beaucoup