AHCI bios option

[vailr]

Is there an official place to download Intel RST?

This one is a slightly older version:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22194&lang=eng&wapkw=intel+rst#help
However, version 11.7.4.1001 is the latest for the X58 chipset.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

This one is a slightly older version:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=22194&lang=eng&wapkw=intel+rst#help
However, version 11.7.4.1001 is the latest for the X58 chipset.

Is that one not on the Intel sight?

 

[vailr]

Intel's site is always disorganized and difficult to navigate. If you go to the EVGA motherboard official support site (same applies for most other brands), the drivers offered for download are often outdated. The station-drivers site is one that is kept updated the best, as far as I'm aware.

 

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Intel's site is always disorganized and difficult to navigate. If you go to the EVGA motherboard official support site (same applies for most other brands), the drivers offered for download are often outdated. The station-drivers site is one that is kept updated the best, as far as I'm aware.

I'm afraid to click anything on that website. Looks fishy to me

 

[Burpo]

Intel.. fishy? lol

 

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Intel.. fishy? lol

lol, the station-drivers sight

NOT the Intel sight

 

[vailr]

I'm afraid to click anything on that website. Looks fishy to me

I go there often, and other than being in French (you can select English in the drop down menu) it's been entirely free of fish and other sea creatures. They used to have a lot of French pop-up ads, but haven't seen any of those for several years now. That's using Firefox + the AdBlock Plus browser extension.

 

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So again if I wanted to switch back to IDE mode could I do this? Would it be a problem with an SSD?? Would I lose any functionality?

Thanks

EDIT: The only thing I need is functionality with HOT Swap. On my main rig I keep my storage drives offline/powered down until I need them and then I press a power button to power on the HDD drives and then I backup my files. I see AHCI allows Hot Swap. NCQ is basically for disk drives (HDD) not SSD drives so there is no advantage with NCQ on an SSD. But with my game rig I could use IDE because I keep both SSD drives active/on all the time. I'm just guessing. I really don't remember if there was a major issue with using an SSD on IDE. Oh this is all via the bios settings btw.

 

[vailr]

No, for hot swap to work you need AHCI mode. AHCI is the better (speedier) choice for SATA storage, and especially so for SATA SSD drives. There's no logical reason to revert to IDE mode, when all your storage devices use a SATA connection.
Maybe: if you were still running Windows XP, IDE mode would make for an easier Windows initial install. But for Windows 7, 8, 8.1, or even OSX Mavericks (Hackintosh),you'd want to use AHCI mode. On newer chipset motherboards, AHCI mode is the default bios setting.

 

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No, for hot swap to work you need AHCI mode. AHCI is the better (speedier) choice for SATA storage, and especially so for SATA SSD drives. There's no logical reason to revert to IDE mode, when all your storage devices use a SATA connection.

Ok, I was just thinking in terms of making things work. I hate to upgrade at this point. Either it would be another X58 motherboard to make use with this i7 970, or a new platform and I don't want to upgrade until after the next gen chips.

I mean 350$ for an eBay "New" EVGA 760 A1 board? let alone there aren't even pics of the actual motherboard it'self. Just the box, lol! Seems like the guy is selling a box for 350$ LOL

 

[vailr]

Well, I don't think there's really a hardware problem. Either a bios setting or a Windows driver problem. If you re-set the bios to "optimized default settings", reboot, then change the bios setting to AHCI mode, and completely disable the JMicron controller. Then continue booting into Windows and go through the "clean out ghost devices" procedure mentioned earlier.
As a last resort: complete re-format and re-install of Windows.

 

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Well, I don't think there's really a hardware problem. Either a bios setting or a Windows driver problem. If you re-set the bios to "optimized default settings", reboot, then change the bios setting to AHCI mode, and completely disable the JMicron controller. Then continue booting into Windows and go through the "clean out ghost devices" procedure mentioned earlier.
As a last resort: complete re-format and re-install of Windows.

Things were fine until I rebooted and decided to lower the memory divider then the same error came up. I now have reset the bios and am putting the SATA controller in SATA mode.

 

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Set the SATA controller to AHCI. Disabled the JMicron controller and it booted right up no issues.

The board is just flakey. I should of asked for another one RIGHT away with EVGA. Now they want 65$ an hour for out of warranty repair, lol.

 

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Well it seems to have settled down. I wonder what will cause it to crash and burn next time. I've been able to bump my BLCK to 168, with my Vcore to 1.27v for 4GHz. Didn't do any stability testing but this is around where 32nm 6core chips start sipping the vcore. My X5660 Xeon did 4.26GHz @ 1.29v ... anwyways, thanks all for your help :thumbsup: