Hi! Recently i bought a crucial mx500 250gb ssd, to use it in my notebook. Later i found out i can't use it in ahci, because my notebook is 10+ years old, an the mobo does not support the feature. So i used it with ide configuration for a while. In my desktop pc i use a Kingston HyperX Fury 120 Gb ssd with AHCI enabled, and was quite satisfied with the speeds, and stability, but the 120 Gb storage fell short for me. It got full quickly. So I decided, to switch the two drives, because I would not use this much space in my notebook, and I read that the crucial performs better, than my kingston in general. My problem started, when i switched the 2 drives. In the desktop pc i could easily install Windows 10 Pro with BIOS set to AHCI, than go to reboot. At this point the installation didn't continue, because it was stuck on an infinite loop of PNP Watchdog BSOD error, and reboot. If i switched back to IDE it would start up alright, but the speeds are not nearly satisfactory. I tried nearly every guide i could to set it back to AHCI, but nothing worked. (reinstalled like 7 times, different MBR/GBP CMS/no CMS win installer, restarting into safe mode with registry editing, or no editing, but i can't even get into safe mode with AHCI BIOS mode, so no driver installation could take place.) At this point i was forced to use it in IDE, but maybe you could help me out with this situation. Oh yes, i almost forgot, in the process i updated the drive, to latest firmware, and my BIOS also has the latest firmware, P 1.80. My specs: MOBO: Asrock M3N78D MEM: 2*4 GB Kindston HyperX blue 1866Mhz CPU: AMD 965 Black Phenom II, ~3500Mhz(running at) GPU: Gainward Phantom GTX 760 2Gb Thanks in advance!
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