AMD chipset AHCI drivers prevent boot on SSD?

[sswilson]

Seems to me I've seen this, but just did a quick search and didn't find it so would appreciate if somebody knows the answer or can point me to the thread where it's already been answered.

Just installed an SSD in AHCI mode as a windows7 64bit boot disk. Everything went fine until I tried to install the AMD chipset drivers which caused an immediate blue screen on reboot and wouldn't boot until I restored back to a previous (pre-AMD drivers) restore point.

Didn't have this issue installing a standard HDD in AHCI mode, so I'm wondering if there's something I need to know / do WRT using the SSD. IIRC I need the chipset drivers otherwise I won't have hotswap E-Sata capabilities, and it looks like the AMD AHCI drivers also make a difference as far as the SSD performance goes.....

Any ideas?

[Shadowmeph]

I had a similar issue when I installed my ssd the funny thing is that when I got the BSOD I shut down my computer unplugged it pushed the power button to discharge any left over electricity, plugged the power back into the psu started fired up the computer and everything worked, not sure what happened but it just seemed to cure itself.

[sswilson]

Originally Posted by Shadowmeph

I had a similar issue when I installed my ssd the funny thing is that when I got the BSOD I shut down my computer unplugged it pushed the power button to discharge any left over electricity, plugged the power back into the psu started fired up the computer and everything worked, not sure what happened but it just seemed to cure itself.

Heh......

Not sure if it was the order in which I installed the drivers this time, the fact that I did an "express install" of the drivers rather than custom, and/or powering down and back up like you suggested, but now it appears to be back up and running properly..... ;)

[Shadowmeph]

hehe glad to hear that it is back up and running again

[sswilson]

Not sure if I'm gonna stick with this though..... I've only got a 40G SDD as my OS drive, and the basic win7 ultimate install is taking up 25G of that. As a hardcore 60%'er (start deleting stuff if the drive is more than 60% full) I'm not very comfortable only having 15G free space on the drive especially since I haven't starting installing my normal third party software and am not completely sure if all of that will play nicely installed on another drive.

[gingerbee]

full ultimate 64 should only be around 16 gigs so do some cleaning. ya at 25 that's really high for just the os i have a full install of 7 u x64 with all my apps install right now no games and it's only 21 gigs

[Shadowmeph]

Originally Posted by sswilson

Not sure if I'm gonna stick with this though..... I've only got a 40G SDD as my OS drive, and the basic win7 ultimate install is taking up 25G of that. As a hardcore 60%'er (start deleting stuff if the drive is more than 60% full) I'm not very comfortable only having 15G free space on the drive especially since I haven't starting installing my normal third party software and am not completely sure if all of that will play nicely installed on another drive.

my ssd is 64gb and I am currently at 34.2gb and I have just a couple of web browsers , my win7 codecs so I can watch pretty much all my videos using media center. but I have a separate drive for everything else. I just made a new post asking about if it was possible to setup raid on separate drives just so I can speed up everything else a bit.
anyway I am pretty much in the same boat as you I am thinking of just pulling the ssd and seeing if I can find some hardware that will make it so I can install the ssd on my older laptop I have. because as it is, I am not really seeing any real benefits except for saving maybe 20 seconds of boot up time and the odd few seconds here and there for my web browsers and email to pop up other then that no real benefits

[sswilson]

Yeah, I don't know why my freaking Win7 install is so bloody big. I haven't even started installing anything else (including motherboard software other than the drivers). Gotta be something bloated on there.

[Shadowmeph]

things like language files , you can go into the ad remove and remove the windows devices/things you don't need that makes up a fair amount of room

[sswilson]

My only concern is that windows7 doesn't say it's going to "uninstall" windows files, it only says it's going to disable them....

I think I'm going to have to dl one of those file sniffers to see what's taking up so much room.... seems like I'm a good 8G over what I should be......

Is there something perhaps I should do to the SDD to verify that it's storing files properly (sectors aren't too big)?