Solved: Sata Emulation Mode

[necrophea]

While testing some hard drive benchmark software, i decided to attempt to switch sata emulation modes in bios. I've discovered that my bios was set to raid by default. Any attempt to change from raid, to IDE or AHCI for example causes the computer to be unable to boot.

If i were to install a SSD, Would I be negatively impacted on the inability to switch sata modes?

Ive already tried the registry "fix" of setting the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\msahci start value to 0, and rebooted.

This had no effect.

Do i need to be able to switch out of raid? is this even an issue?

 

[Oddba11]

The mode typically has to be set or changed BEFORE OS installation. Any changes after installation typically cause the PC not to function properly.

RAID would only be chosen if you are running RAID. Otherwise, you would use IDE or AHCI. For a Win7 or 8 installation, you would use AHCI.

 

[managed]

How many physical hard drives are in that computer ? You need at least 2 to have a real Raid set up.

 

[Triple6]

There's no issue with the SATA controller being set to RAID even with one drive, just gives you the option to use RAID down the road and has the features of AHCI anyways. The boot error is completely normal and expected when you switch the mode. Leave teh controller in RAID modem and you're go to good.

 

[managed]

There's no issue with the SATA controller being set to RAID even with one drive, just gives you the option to use RAID down the road and has the features of AHCI anyways. The boot error is completely normal and expected when you switch the mode. Leave teh controller in RAID modem and you're go to good.

I understand. Seemed strange it was set on Raid in the first place though.

 

[necrophea]

Yeah I thought it was strange as well..the pc now has 2 physical drives..but when I purchased it..it only contained one 1.5 tb drive....seemed strange but I guess they planned on users adding additional drives to it. Oh well as long as an ssd will perform well, there is no issue.. Thank you all for your help.

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