pezcore Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 So here's what I did. I installed Win7 on my new build and made all 8 SATA ports AHCI. Computer boots and works great, except... My blu-ray drive is also a sata drive, and doesn't seem to work [doesn't read discs and makes movie players hang until I eject). I'm blaming this on AHCI (and after reading up on it, was a bad idea for an optical drive). So I went back into the BIOS to change the 2 purple SATA ports to IDE but now BOTH the blu-ray drive (SATA) and my DVD drive (PATA) aren't recognized in Windows. I don't want to reinstall Windows if I don't have to, but there seems to be no way to go from AHCI to IDE HELP! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidst Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 Are both drives recognized in CMOS setup? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dude Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 Are both drives recognized in CMOS setup? If they are, try right clicking on "my computer', goto manage, then disk management... you might have to asign them a drive letter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pezcore Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 They are both there in bios setup, but not in windows. They are also not in Disk Management and the CD/DVD category is gone altogether in Device Manager : Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidst Posted September 5, 2009 Posted September 5, 2009 try fail safe defaults on the intergrated peripherals page F6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pezcore Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 I got it working Fail Safe Defaults didn't do it, but moving the Blu-Ray drive to the regular SATA port (instead of the 2 purple ones) fixed that, but I still didn't have my regular IDE DVD drive up. So I put the purple SATA ports back to AHCI and the drive was good again. If I ever add another hard drive it will have to go in the remaining 2 SATA ports (purple) and we'll see if/how that works. :insertsighofreliefhere: Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OrangeJuice Posted September 8, 2009 Posted September 8, 2009 That's weird. Drives are too finicky about things like that. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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