SSDs don't have temp sensors. Speccy doesn't know that, so it's having a panic attack and giving you worst-case scenario. 100C is the boiling point of water, so if your PC was actually running while anything in there is hotter than that, the SSD wouldn't be your biggest problem. Smoke and burning components would be. :P
[QUOTE="C_Rule"]Going to take the board back, guys. I reinstalled the ASMedia SATA3 drivers, again. Installed Intel Toolbox, which told me I had the latest firmware. Still no improvement on SSD speed and still not able to get those ASMedia SATA ports to work. On top of that, the Etron USB3 ports are not working. Intel ones work fine, but Etron ones just won't work at all. When I connect my USB3 HDD to one, the LED on the HDD flashes, but it doesn't appear in drive management. Tried a USB2 memory stick in one, it didn't work either. Then plugged a mouse into one and the LED (underneath) did not even light up. Reinstalled the Etron USB3 drivers which did not change anything. This board just doesn't seem to like it's 3rd party chips. I'll get it replaced, but I'm pretty worried that I'll have the same problems. Eeeeeew. Motherboard problems suck. :( Let us know how the replacement works out!
Before sending the motherboard back, update BIOS and chipset drivers, and your SATA drivers as well. SSDs are super-temperamental about drivers and such things, so it's very worth your while to update everything before checking performance again. Update SSD firmware if it's not on latest already as well.
We have actually stopped banning for thread necromancy. We discovered it's more of a deterrent to force anyone who does it to sit all alone in a locked room with the a rabid chipmunk and an accordion player for a minimum of three days. But we do close the threads. :)
i believe you can just go to the bios and turn Achi on, but doesn't really make a difference, i have a SSD and i didn't even turn on Achi
Bebi_vegeta
Many have reported better performance with ACHI and trim support.
What he said. Lots of SSD features are not available in IDE, only in AHCI. Also, if Windows 7 was installed in IDE mode it won't boot in any other unless you apply the fix that we talked about earlier. So switching BIOS from one to the other without first making the necessary registry changes will lead to a BSOD due to not finding a boot device. Fun times...
This is the Microsoft fix Bebi_vegeta is talking about. If you decide to do a reinstall instead, boot from the Win7 disk as normal, use the partition manager on the disk to delete the existing partitions, then reboot from the disk and do a new install just like you did the first time.
Windows sets a paging file and hibernation file on C:\ that matches your RAM size. So if you have 8GB RAM, you get paging and hibernation files of that size, and that eats up 16GB total. As for the rest... do you have Windows set to show you all hidden files and system files?
I recently installed a Crucial 128 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT128M4SSD2. It does not appear in "My Computer". I am using Window 7 Home 64 bit with a EVGA P55 FTW motherboard. I see the drive in the BIOS, Windows message popped up and said the drive installed successfully, and the drive is also visible on the Device Manager under Disk Drives. Does anyone know how to get it too appear. merigoldsass
Right-click "My Computer" and pick "manage". Go to Disk Management in the big window that comes up, locate your SSD, and initialize it. The m4 comes uninitialized and you need to do this step first.
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