BIOS & SSD problem, help needed

[sanityvoid]

I wanted to wipe my SSD and reinstall windows 7.

I reset my SSD with the win7 DOS set of commands.

Steps I used:
Insert Win7 disk and start installation.

01. Using Shift + F10 to get to DOS (at any screen after initial files load)
02. Type: Disk part
03. Type: list disk
04. type: select disk 0 (where 0 was my SSD)
05: type: list disk (to make sure you selected the correct disk)
06: type: clean or clean all

All that was done, and after I closed out of DOS and continued with win7 installation. Everything went swimmingly. Then the problem.

After it reboots my PC gets stuck in the bios load. It just hangs.

I narrowed it to some settings in my bios, but the errors don't make sense.

Loading optimized defauts or whatever lets me into windows, but selecting the 'ICH SATA Control Mode' to AHCI and 'Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode' to AHCI both or either make the bios stop responding and not post fully.

System:
CPU: Intel Q9550
RAM: 8gb G.Skill
VGA: Asus 5850
SSD Intel X25 120gb
MOBO: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P ver. 1.00

Ideas? Suggestions? I'm sort of at a loss as those options are to be selected in order to run the SSD optimally.

 

[Puppies04]

Have you taken the battery out of your mobo for a few minutes? If not try it.... let us know.

 

[wsaenotsock]

windows has to have the AHCI drivers ready before booting into AHCI mode or else it has a fit and it will not boot. this occurs when windows is installed in the normal ide/sata mode and you try to switch to ahci afterwards.

To resolve this issue yourself, enable the AHCI driver in the registry before you change the SATA mode of the boot drive. To do this, follow these steps:
Exit all Windows-based programs.
Click Start, type regedit in the Start Search box, and then press ENTER.
If you receive the User Account Control dialog box, click Continue.
Locate and then click one of the following registry subkeys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\IastorV
In the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.
In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK.
On the File menu, click Exit to close Registry Editor.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976

 

[sanityvoid]

It didn't work. It still won't post past the initial phase where it looks for HDDs, SSDs and CD drives. It just hangs. It won't even go as far as 'boot from CD...'

Very frustrating. I don't think a reinstall of the OS is going to help either. It almost is like the BIOS is corrupt. I guess I can try to re-up the BIOS. It's my best chance.

I did take out the battery too, hoping to clear the error. No dice.