Recent content by Nucleus111

Scratch that again..... It seems some old (~4-5yr.) SATA drives are not compatible with AHCI either on my new board or in general. One of them was a data drive that was known to be good up until the new hardware and Win7 install; previously XP. It showed the same exact issues as when the...

Scratch that... It was a failing disk.

Just installed Win 7 x64 on an Asus M4A87TD EVO (AMD 870) with AHCI enabled in the BIOS before hand. The problem is that my HD activity is completely unbearable! I mean I can click on the start menu and have to wait a minute! That was with the standard MS drivers. Changing over to the 10.9...

Thanks for the links, but I've been there too;) The AMD site has only chipset drivers for much older series and the ATI site only has the RAID driver and a "disk performance utility"....whatever that is. I do appreciate the help though.

O.k....this is even embarassing to ask, but where are the AMD motherboard reference drivers on their site? Can someone please link. Does AMD not design reference drivers?