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SATA ports are not SATA III

John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
I just built a new computer. The mother board is a GIGABYTE AORUS GA-Z270X-Gaming K7. Looking at HDTune for my primary drive which is a Crucial SSD it shows SATA II. The platter which is a Hitachi is at SATA I. The motherboard LED indicator says AO which according to the manual means, IDE initialization is started.

I looked in BIOS and it is set to AHCI. My drive configuration is as follows:

SATA 0: SSD
SATA 1: Platter
SATA 2: DVD/RW

Also, I see I'm missing a driver in device manager and I believe I installed all of the drivers from Gigabyte's website. Can't quite figure this out.



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You know, I downloaded it and since I went down all the drivers I put on the desktop I should have. But I wondered if that might be it. I'll go ahead and redownload it and see what happens.
 
I see you are using HD Tune 2.55 (from 2008). The current version is 5.6. The older versions may not know how to correctly identify the ports in Intel's latest chipset.
 
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I was thinking exactly that. I'll go ahead and get the current version. But this is the free version and I think it may not have been updated. I'll check.

I updated the BIOS to the latest F5, installed that INF file (which I know I done before), changed the SATA cables to the second SATA connector ports and ran SFC /scannow. Still have the issue. In fact, since the platter is at SATA I its speed is only 82 MbPS. The SSD speed is around 350 MbPS at SATA II. Everything should have SATA III speed.

I did find out what that "other" driver was. It was from Alcohol 120%.
 
Well, I think I have this solved. The free version of HD Tune hasn't been updated since 2008. So I tried his payed for version in trial mode and that version does in fact show my SSD as SATA III. But the platter is still showing SATA I. I think this is due to that drive being fully encrypted with Truecrypt and it's messing something up. I tried various speed test tools and they all show the platter's speed at around 82 MB/second. The SSD does show proper SATA III speed at around 550 MB/Second.

For a while there I thought I had a bad board and I so didn't want to RMA. Would be a real PITA to have to pull out the motherboard. I just built this two days ago.
 
Youse guys help me remember my DOS days! After downloading an INF, to install it, do you still have to right-click on the INF and left click on install?
 
"DOS" and "Right-Click"... hmm.... not sure about that one. I remember having to dig out a floppy drive (and find a decent diskette) just so I could get new inf drivers for an XP install. SO glad when MS fixed that with Vista!
 
RolandJS said:
Youse guys help me remember my DOS days! After downloading an INF, to install it, do you still have to right-click on the INF and left click on install?
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"Intel chipset inf" is a bit of a misnomer. It is a full fledge software installation package. It installs all the intel .inf files (as well as a whole bunch of other files) so you dont have to right click and install anything manually. No one should be installing anything that way anymore.
 
the inf driver package does not contain the sata drivers anymore, what you would need is the Intel Rapid Storage Technology driver package. You can get the latest from Gigabyte's website.

When you run the setup, you can add -overwrite to force it to overwrite the drivers with the ones from the setup

You could also try another program to see if they read the sata drive info correctly for example Speccy from Piriform https://www.piriform.com/speccy
 
I've installed the Rapid Storage drivers along with all the other drivers at Gigabyte's website. Like I said, it seem it was the old version of HD Tune that was reporting the SATA port wrong. But I give that other App a try and see what that says too.
 
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