P5K SE (non EPU) AHCI Mode - How to enable it?

[King_Tuna]

Hello, I have an old system and I was about to replace my old HDD with SSD and i realised that my motherboard does not have AHCI mode in BIOS but in fact my southbridge (p35) supports it. Is there a way to enable AHCI? I'm using Windows 7 Pro X64. Here's system details.

 

BTW will this work?

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-solved-How-to-add-AHCI-mod-to-ASUS-P5K-SE-bios-not-EPU

 

Intel Core 2 Quad Q8400 @2.67GHz
Deepcool Gammaxx 200
Asus P5K SE
Kingston 2*1 + 2*2 6GB 800MHz CL5
Sapphire Radeon HD 4850 Reference 512MB 256-bit
Samsung HD321KJ 320GB (im going to replace)
WD Green WD6400AAVS 640GB
Corsair VS 450
Asus Vento Case
Asus VB171D 1280x1024 VGA
Windows 7 Professional 64Bit
 

[Guest]

Is that a 4:3 monitor?

[King_Tuna]

Just now, dexxterlab97 said:

Is that a 4:3 monitor?

No, 5:4. 1280*1024.

[Spakes]

Set "SATA Configuration" to "Compatible". Then "AHCI" should appear as a choice. Helped me with P5K.

[King_Tuna]

Let me try this. Stay tuned

[NumLock21]

Your chipset does not support ACHI, when the controller won't support RAID. The RAID runs off the South Bridge. P35 w/ICH9 do not have RAID, so no ACHI. P35 w/ICH9R have RAID and ACHI.

[King_Tuna]

31 minutes ago, Spakes said:

Set "SATA Configuration" to "Compatible". Then "AHCI" should appear as a choice. Helped me with P5K.

It didn't helped. Thanks anyway

30 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Your chipset does not support ACHI, when the controller won't support RAID. The RAID runs off the South Bridge. P35 w/ICH9 do not have RAID, so no ACHI. P35 w/ICH9R have RAID and ACHI.

In fact it does. Most people from here done this right.

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-solved-How-to-add-AHCI-mod-to-ASUS-P5K-SE-bios-not-EPU

 

 

 

Well I tried Antinomy's modded bios and it WORKED! It detected all drives but there is a problem. Windows didn't booted at all. I tried Safe mode and it didn't booted. PC restarted itself. I've done configuring my BIOS to AHCI but I haven't done configuring Windows. I can upload a video If you guys want.

[Spakes]

Interested in it. Didn't quite remember whole process on 775.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, King_Tuna said:

It didn't helped. Thanks anyway

 

In fact it does. Most people from here done this right.

https://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Thread-solved-How-to-add-AHCI-mod-to-ASUS-P5K-SE-bios-not-EPU

 

 

 

Well I tried Antinomy's modded bios and it WORKED! It detected all drives but there is a problem. Windows didn't booted at all. I tried Safe mode and it didn't booted. PC restarted itself. I've done configuring my BIOS to AHCI but I haven't done configuring Windows. I can upload a video If you guys want.

Windows won't boot when its original setting was IDE. You will need to redo the entire OS with ACHI drivers or try this method first

https://www.neowin.net/news/neowin-guide-how-to-change-from-ide-to-ahci-without-reinstalling-windows

[King_Tuna]

Its booting fine with orijinal setting IDE. Let me try this. Wait please

[King_Tuna]

15 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Windows won't boot when its original setting was IDE. You will need to redo the entire OS with ACHI drivers or try this method first

https://www.neowin.net/news/neowin-guide-how-to-change-from-ide-to-ahci-without-reinstalling-windows

THANKS A lot! It booted perfectly and it was faster than before even with older drive! Thanks a lot again! Now I can upgrade to SSD