Taliseian Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Greetings all.Let me start with my system specs...C2D E63002g DDR2Gigabyte GA-945P-S31x SATA-II and 2x IDE HD Drives (can't remember make/model numbers)My question concerns the SATA Drive. I can install XP cleanly without needing to F6 any drivers. According to SiSoft Sandra I get about 50mg throughput and 17ms access time.Even tho I can install XP, would I get better performance if I F6'd or NLite'd the intel sata drivers? My board has an ICH7 Chipset and in the bios I don't see anything about setting my system for AHCI.Thanks in advance....T
nitroshift Posted March 30, 2007 Posted March 30, 2007 Gigabyte hides some advanced BIOS settings under the command Ctrl + F1, so next time when you enter the BIOS hit Ctrl and F1 and you'll see all the BIOS settings (including the settings for the S-ATA controller).
Taliseian Posted March 30, 2007 Author Posted March 30, 2007 So do I need to look at those advanced options to get more performance or just slipstream the F6 drivers into my XP CD?I'm still a little confused....ThanksT
Taliseian Posted March 30, 2007 Author Posted March 30, 2007 (edited) I want to say its a DiamondMax 21 320g SATA drive, but I'm not 100% sure. I'm at work right now.I am sure its a Maxtor, 320g, SATA-II drive tho.TEDIT -- I'm also thinking about installing Vista. Would I need to slipstream or F6 the drivers there as well? Edited March 30, 2007 by Taliseian
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