This is serious! I have two HDDs in my rig and just installed a new SSD. A program called Speccy confirmed the new drive had been intalled correctly, but it wasn't appearing in Computer on Windows 7. Windows correctly listed my two HDDs, my two optical drives and incorrectly listed a floppy drive which I do not have. I was hoping to do a quick format of the SSD then disconnect the HDDs and do a clean reinstall. But this can't happen until Windows recognises the new drive . My brainwave was to change the BIOS - big mistake. I did two things: :: Switched off the A drive in the BIOS so the non-existent floppy drive no longer appears in Windows :: Changed the IDE settings to AHCI Now the PC goes into a search mode where it tries to locate the hard drives & optical drives It finds the two optical drives and the new, empty SSD, but that's it. No HDDs. None of the BIOS functions works - the Del key and F key functions immediately take you to the same screen where it sesarches for drives, and csn't find the ones it needs. So I have successfully masnaged to hide my HDDs from the BIOS and have msde my PC unusable. Luckily my wife has a lasptop! I'll post this thread then seacrh my old posts & paste my system spec. Have I trashed the BIOS? Is it new MOBO time? Please help.
First step try changing your AHCI back to IDE, and see if now your hard drives are back. Do all the drives have sata connectors? What SSD is it? see if there are any firmware updates for the SSD, and any BIOS updates for your motherboard.
Not sure if this is true or not but I was told if you remove the battery from the motherboard it resets all the settings? Don't quote me on this though as i'm not 100% sure. When I was told I did indeed remove out the battery and put it back in and my computer seemed to boot up fine afterwards. "it's the little round thing that looks like a big watch battery" is what I was told. Can anybody confirm this?
Yes if the jumper can't be found then removing the battery will have the same effect. May be worth researching any bios updates and what issues have been fixed, you may find a later bios more compatible.
Yes removing the battery from the motherboard (usually a watch battery) will reset the settings. The jumper method effectively does the same.
Guys, all sorted. If I'd have bothered to have read my MOBO handbook instead of panicking, it would have told me that both things you suggested would have worked - jumpers and battery removal (for one minute). So many thanks! Now all I need to do (apart from restore my overclock) is to work out how to get Windows to recognise the SSD. Nothing's ever easy, eh?
I was just looking at some forums and I came across this thread. http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=196558&highlight=ssd May be of some use to you to help set up your SSD.
You really need the drive controller in AHCI mode to use your SSD to its full potential though. I would strongly recommend looking for firmware updates for the SSD, and the motherboard, as it is odd that the HDDs are not recognized in AHCI mode. They are sata hard drives, right?
Make sure that the SSD is connected to SATA port 1 on your mobo. You could also have a look at this: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...hlight=toolbox and this: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...-AND-Windows-7 The second one has info on how to permanently diable hibernation, which is also here: http://helpdeskgeek.com/windows-7/wi...-hiberfil-sys/ TRIM is automatically enabled by WIN 7, but you need to allow it to do its stuff when the pc is idle. Finally, I also found that I had to do this: http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/fo...r-Installation Sorry for the information barrage.
What motherboard do you have? Some come with multiple Sata controllers, mine has 6 Intel ports set to AHCI for my disks and 1 JMicron port set to IDE for my DVD writer. @markbrett64, would those 1Mb GTX 460's be the fastest SVGA cards in the world?
It's just I didn't realise Nvidia had brought out a 1 Megabyte version, as well as the 1GB and 768MB versions
Ummmm... Right 2 things... 1. Why are you trying to pre-format the SSD? Windows & whatnot can do this during the install process - obviously make sure you're doing a quick format rather than a full one (& there's an extra process to go through if you're using a pre-Vista OS so that the alignment's correct). 2. & the reason why Windows Explorer wouldn't show a new SSD in explorer is that it needs to be initialised & partitioned in Disk Management (in where ever you've put Administrative Tools in the Start Menu)...
Hi PocketDemon, The OCZ instructions went through the process of pre-formatting, so that was why I tried to do it, but, like you said, there was really no need. Apart from that I did follow your explanatory post in my other thread and all was well doing what you suggested. I just disconnected the other HDDs and did a clean Windows 7 install on the SSD, having again tweaked the BIOS to AHCI. This went ahead with no problems. I then reconnected the two HDDs and got very mixed results. My Samsung drive was found OK, and I was able to access all my games - games data being the only thing on this drive. But boot-up could not locate the other drive, the Western Digital Velociraptor, which contains my old copy of Windows 7 (which I don't need), some program files (which I don't really need) and some music files and other stuff, which I would have liked to have copied across. The Velociraptor is SATA - there's even a label on the drive to say this. So I wonder why the Samsung drive was located OK, but this wasn't? Before I installed the SSD, I had been running both drives IDE mode for the past few months - basically because I didn't know any better. I bought the 120GB OCZ SSD from Scan. I did take your advice and asked for two 60GB drives, but Scan advised against this, so to avoid any possible complications in case I had to return the drive I just went with what the salesman suggested. Thanks again to everyone who's helped.
Hey Deders, Here are my specs: OS MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit CPU Intel Core i7 920 @ 2.67GHz 39 °C Bloomfield 45nm Technology RAM 12.0GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 532MHz (7-7-7-20) Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EX58-UD3R (Socket 1366) Graphics DELL SP2309W @ 2048x1152 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Hard Drives 117GB OCZ-VERTEX2 (SATA) 30 °C 977GB SAMSUNG SAMSUNG HD103SJ (SATA) 36 °C Optical Drives HL-DT-ST BDDVDRW CH10LS20 PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-218L Too much cash spent - too little knowledge!
There is one option in the bios setting named load default or factory settings. try to use this may be works for you.
