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When I upgraded to W10 last year, I made one change to my desktop. Installing an SSD drive as my primary drive, with an IDE drive as secondary. I wasn't aware of changing BISO to AHCI until sometime after. Since that time I've followed a couple of directions how to take advantage of AHCI in the BIOS thru registry or Safeboot options. But each time I make the change, and after a few days or week, my desktop grinds to a halt. It takes time just to reboot it, and when I do, changing BISO back to IDE fixes the problem.
I can only surmise that installing W10 from scratch, with AHCI active in BIOS, might finally fix the issue.
Any other suggestions are welcome. Thx.
Thanks. I updated the SSD driver via Intel's utility when I installed the drive. It was previously used as an external backup drive with no issues.
Think flashing the BISO to make sure its current/not corrupted would be a positive step? Maybe also reset CMOS and replace the battery? I haven't seen any issues with respect to CMOS.
Usually the only way to sort that is to only have the SATA drive connected, and remove all IDE drives.
OK. I'll see if I can connect drives just via SATA. Thanks for the help.
Confirmed this "automatic" method: Solved Attn. SSD owners - Enabling AHCI mode AFTER Windows 10 installation. - Windows 10 Forums to work for my ASUS G752VY to switch from RAID to AHCI.