Thank you very much.Īs for a bad driver or resident app causing the slowdown, you may have inadvertently led me to that as well.
And thanks for all the responses, your help is appreciated.Īnd I didn't know that there were specific AHCI drivers that needed to be installed, but I downloaded and installed them and changed the setting in the BIOS and it booted and saw all the connected drives so I guess that little side problem has been solved. I'm pretty sure that whatever happened was a result of my stupidity somewhere down the line rather than faulty hardware.Īnd thanks for mentioning the Paragon tool, I'm hoping I don't have to start all over again but it would be much nicer to have to start from that image than it would to have to start from scratch. It was blazing fast during the first installation of Windows and it was blazing fast after I wiped it and installed Windows the second time. I never ran any sort of benchmarks on the SSD to try and quantify its speed, only the stopwatch on my cell phone to see how long it took to boot and I used CrystalDiskInfo on a flash drive to see that TRIM was working and make sure all the drives were being recognized properly. I was just holding off incase I came up with the money for a third WD drive to maybe try my hand at setting up a RAID. The AHCI was something I was going to address once I got this problem figured out actually, and I didn't think it was related simply because I had everything working once already with the BIOS and settings I've got now and I can't imagine why it would suddenly stop. I'm using v1.8 BIOS for my motherboard, there is a v1.9 that was just released recently on the MSI website but it said the only thing it changed was the M-Flash module and AM3+ CPU support which shouldn't apply to me right? ( ) I don't have the SATA controller set to AHCI in the BIOS I tried that when I put in all these new components and was doing all the installation the first time around and it wouldn't read them properly. Yes I did a secure erase before I installed Win7 this time (the second time) and then after installing all the drivers and updates I made an image.
I've worked through about a million problems on this thing and there are only a few issues left so any help figuring out how to diagnose or fix this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Something about aligning the partitions? Also just in case anyone is curious I used Parted Magic and did a secure erase on the SSD before reinstalling Windows 7 again so it should have been good as new, right? I made an image after I installed the OS/drivers/all the updates and nothing else, but I made it with Acronis True Image 2010 and I read somewhere that only 2011 images work properly with SSDs. Since then, it takes forever for the system to shutdown and to load up even though I've disabled the RAMDisk completely. It didn't work obviously because they skipped the disk management step, and so when I got fed up with it I went and hit "Stop RAMDisk" and then it blue-screened on me. I downloaded the Dataram Ramdisk and following a poorly written tutorial ( ) proceeded to set up a RAMDisk of my own. After installing Windows on there for the first time it would take about 45 seconds from the time I hit restart to the time Windows was fully loaded again and about 28 seconds from powered off to fully loaded and I was pretty damn happy with that.įast forward a few weeks and I just reformatted and reinstalled Windows again and it was still loading up just as fast until I decided to start messing around with a RAMDisk. I just recently upgraded my computer in about every way possible and decided to give a solid state drive a try.