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AHCI

John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 and I have recently installed Windows 7 and am using a SSD. I turned on AHCI, but when it boots BIOS screen loads and does this AHCI checking and then I have to press any key to continue. This is very annoying. Is there maybe a setting that I don't need enabled to prevent this boot behavior?

If you want I can post a video.
 
Is the press any key before windows load?
is there any error, usually that is the reason for the press any key to continue.
 
John Connor said:
I have a Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 and I have recently installed Windows 7 and am using a SSD. I turned on AHCI, but when it boots BIOS screen loads and does this AHCI checking and then I have to press any key to continue. This is very annoying. Is there maybe a setting that I don't need enabled to prevent this boot behavior?

If you want I can post a video.
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Never seen this. Perhaps you can post the exact wording?
 
on the video.is it me or do i hear a long beep.then a short one.if that's the case it is CMOS error.normal should be 2 short beep.
 
I only get the AHCI bios screen if I'm using a 2nd controller in AHCI or Raid mode, for instance mine comes with 6 Intel ports that are native to the chipset and an additional port with a Marvel controller.

If I enable Raid on the marvel controller I get the message. The funny thing is the Marvel controller's AHCI settings are far more obvious than the native controller's settings which are buried in sub menus in the bios.

It's hard to tell from the website but it looks like 4 ports on your board are Intel and another 2 are from a Gigabyte controller. If you aren't using raid you can switch the gigabyte controller off and make sure everything is plugged in to the Intel controller, you may have to search through the bios to find Intel's AHCI settings but this should sort out the unnecessary controller booting up.
 
From what I can see and based on your video,
the SATA ACHI Mode - this controls the intel sata ports (the orange ones on the board)

The Onboard SATA AHCI controls the Gigiabyte Sata (Green Ports)

If you unplug you DVD drive from the Green and plug it in the Orange and you can disable the Onboard SATA AHCI if you wish, and that will get rid of the press any key(which it is asking in regards to the Onboard/Gigabyte SATA)
 
"Gigabyte SATA" is what is actually the JMicron SATA port, which can (and should) be disabled if not being used.
However, if it is being used, there's a more current driver version available than what's offered at Gigabyte's support site.
 
You should ALWAYS have the hard drive as the first boot device unless you really want to boot from CD!

Also you should enable "Quick Boot" in your BIOS. I downloaded the manual for your board but that did a fat load of good. So could you please post a video with all your BIOS screens so that I can take a look at them?
 
vailr said:
"Gigabyte SATA" is what is actually the JMicron SATA port, which can (and should) be disabled if not being used.
However, if it is being used, there's a more current driver version available than what's offered at Gigabyte's support site.
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Yep, use the Intel ports, turn off the other controller, and that message will go away.
 
denis280 said:
on the video.is it me or do i hear a long beep.then a short one.if that's the case it is CMOS error.normal should be 2 short beep.
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There's one short beep and the alarm going off telling me the CPU fan isn't running. It does that on start because the fan doesn't turn on right away.
 
Nec_V20 said:
You should ALWAYS have the hard drive as the first boot device unless you really want to boot from CD!

Also you should enable "Quick Boot" in your BIOS. I downloaded the manual for your board but that did a fat load of good. So could you please post a video with all your BIOS screens so that I can take a look at them?
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This isn't the problem. I had it on boot to CD first so that I could install Windows 7. I changed the boot priorty and made no difference like I thought. I think quick boot is on. Not sure if there was an option, but I do know there is the option to turn off logo, but I don't want to do that so I can see the boot options.
 
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I was using an IDE optical drive at first which I needed to replace. I stuck in a SATA optical drive and now the "press any key to continue" doesn't show up, but the BIOS on start up still goes through a ACHI check like thing. I'm beginning to think it's just the way this old board works. It goes back to at least 2008.

The color of the SATA connectors I have are yellow and blue. The yellow connections say SATA0, SATA1, etc. The two blue SATA connectors say GSATA0 and GSATA1. I used those for RAID as that was the RAID controller.

I'm just wondering what the two AHCI options in BIOS are for. Refer to my video.
 
Check for a bios option to disable the IDE port. The GSATA0 and GSATA1 ports as well as the IDE port are controlled by the JMicron controller. My advice would be to disable the JMicron controller completely and only use hard drives in non-raid mode on Intel SATA ports.
Note: the SATA optical drive should be connected to the highest numbered (yellow) Intel SATA port.
 
I found out what both AHCI options were in BIOS. The first option is for the SATA connectors and the second option is for the IDE cable. Apparently you can use AHCI on the IDE cable. So I disabled that and now there isn't a pause while booting. Although it still does an AHCI check on the SATA drives. This build was put together sometime circa '08 so I imagine that's the way this thing handles AHCI.
 
I think you can only have AHCI on Sata drive, I'm not sure which controller you have found but I know my Intel controller which only controls 6 sata ports is much harder to find in the bios than the Marvel controller which controls the IDE port and 1 Sata port.

Either controller can be set to IDE, AHCI or raid mode.
 
John Connor said:
I found out what both AHCI options were in BIOS. The first option is for the SATA connectors and the second option is for the IDE cable. Apparently you can use AHCI on the IDE cable. So I disabled that and now there isn't a pause while booting. Although it still does an AHCI check on the SATA drives. This build was put together sometime circa '08 so I imagine that's the way this thing handles AHCI.
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Had a few Gigabyte boards from those years, and most acted just like that. Irritating and one reason I quit using Gigabyte.
 
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