Just threw together my new build (i5-2500k, gigabyte z68xp-ud3p, Crucial M4 128GB SSD, 4GBx2 DDR3-1600). I flashed the M4 firmware to 009, disabled the marvell SATA3 ports (not using them), and changed the intel SATA port mode to RAID and installed Windows without a hitch. Booted up fast, installed Intel RST driver, chipset driver, etc as well as most of my programs. Restarts were flying and I went to do a cold boot to see how long it takes and it was hanging on the windows screen.
It's hard to see because it goes so quick, but POST says something like "this version only supports hard disks and cdrom" - not sure if that is relevant of not. I ran ATObenchmark and my SSD is getting 175MB/s write and ~500MB/s read - so nothing wrong there. I tried most of the suggestions; Set the only boot device to the SSD, change SATA mode to AHCI (BSOD when it gets to windows, guessing since I installed it in RAID mode since that is what Intel suggests), EFI enabled, etc. Last resort would be to try reformatting in AHCI instead of RAID, not sure what that will do though since RAID is just AHCI + ability to RAID HDDs.
It's hard to see because it goes so quick, but POST says something like "this version only supports hard disks and cdrom" - not sure if that is relevant of not. I ran ATObenchmark and my SSD is getting 175MB/s write and ~500MB/s read - so nothing wrong there. I tried most of the suggestions; Set the only boot device to the SSD, change SATA mode to AHCI (BSOD when it gets to windows, guessing since I installed it in RAID mode since that is what Intel suggests), EFI enabled, etc. Last resort would be to try reformatting in AHCI instead of RAID, not sure what that will do though since RAID is just AHCI + ability to RAID HDDs.
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