BIOS setting wrong?

Hi

I have 2 SATA drives in the BIOS its setup to run them as IDE mode does this need to be changed so it runs them in SATA mode?

Attached picture.

Normally, bios takes care about the selection between SATA and IDE devices itself. But you can always give it a try to select SATA instead and see if you notice any difference at all?

Ok I think I will give this a go I would change it to AHCI right? Would this cause any damage?

Do I need to install the SATA Drivers if I do this?

Come to think about it. Dont do anything, unless you have performance problems with the SATA hdd? Changing that setting to "SATA" may stop the IDE devices you have as the cd or dvd drive to stop working.

Hi,

Thanks for your reply,

I have noticed some slow performance, all my devices are SATA .

Since you're concerned about speed, what harddrive models are you using?

Hi

They are:

Hard Disk ST3250620AS

Hard Disk SAMSUNG HD403LJ

CDDVDW SH-S223Q

If all your drives are SATA? Why not enable that setting and see what it will give ya?

Ok I will change it to AHCI, is that the correct one would you say out of the list? Do I need to download the SATA drivers from Gigabytes website? Could this casue any harm doing?

I have'nt needed to get any SATA driver for any of my Gigabyte mobo's. So I doubt you will need this. But you very likely will get a message if you still need the driver. No, SATA drivers wont do any damage.

Just change that setting marked in the screenie you provided from IDE to SATA.

Do I change it to AHCI? As thats the only option I can think it would be.

AHCI is correct.

Hi,

I have changed the setting and now device manager is displaying this error.


Do I need to install SATA drivers?

Hmm, it looks like you need to do that.