160G intel & trim

[racerx5410]

So I've updated the FW in my G2 intel drive to the newest FW. I made one mistake though and I think TRIM functionality is not working on this drive. When I installed windows 7 pro...I installed the MB chipset drivers for my asus P7P55D Deluxe drive, but then I also installed the intel matrix storage drivers which overwrote the windows 7 msachi driver.

Currently the system is running snappy and AS SSD benchmarks are consistent with everyone elses scores. is there a way to reinstall the MSACHI driver without doing a reinstall of windows 7? is it even worth it to do that or should I just wait for the intel SSD toolbox to be released and the newest intel storage matrix driver which will support TRIM. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Mihixson]

If you open up your device manager and expand the "IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers" section, you will see your SATA controller there. Right click on it and update driver, then click browse, then click let me pick from a list. One of the drivers listed there should say something about Standard AHCI SATA controller. Select that one and reboot and you should be set.

 

[racerx5410]

That worked like a charm! I expanded the IDE controller details and there are 4 drivers present. One of them being msachi. So trim is now enabled on my updated g2 intel drive then?

 

[smjohns]

Alternatively locate the Intel Storage Matrix package in the installed programs list and click to remove it. If you search around the web there is a cmd line instruction you can type to confirm if TRIM is enabled.

Here is the link I found:
http://forums.legitreviews.com/about23670.html