Hello all, so I just got an Intel X25-M Gen2 80gb SSD and am LOVING it! I have a Gigabyte EP45-UD3P mobo, upon installing the SSD I set the SATA controller to AHCI so everything is fine with the SSD and all my HDD's. However my mobo has a gigabyte raid controller with 2 more SATA ports and an PATA port. My DVD burner is a few years old and is a PATA drive. When I installed windows on the SSD it was my first time adjusting the AHCI options in my bios thus I set the gigabyte ports set to AHCI also so windows installed the DVD burner in AHCI mode. I really dislike having the gigabyte controller set to ahci because it adds another bios boot screen brining the total to 4 boot screens, POST, Intel SATA, Gigabyte SATA and the verifying DMI pool data screen. I want to put the gigabyte controller and thusly the DVD burner back to IDE mode to cut out a boot screen.
The problem is when I set the gigabyte controller back to IDE mode Windows 7 will not reckognize the DVD drive. On the intial bios boot screen it detects the drive. In my windows logs everytime Windows 7 boots there is an entry saying the DVD drive failed to load, with no additional info. My question is how can I get Windows 7 to detect this drive in IDE mode now?? Thanks in advance for any help.
The problem is when I set the gigabyte controller back to IDE mode Windows 7 will not reckognize the DVD drive. On the intial bios boot screen it detects the drive. In my windows logs everytime Windows 7 boots there is an entry saying the DVD drive failed to load, with no additional info. My question is how can I get Windows 7 to detect this drive in IDE mode now?? Thanks in advance for any help.
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