- Dec 27, 2006
- 1,309
- 1
- 81
Edit: WOO HOO! PROBLEM SOLVED!! (see below)
Hi everyone
I'm having trouble getting an intel ssd320 80GB to work as the boot drive on a dell e521 (edit: nForce430/410 southbridge) with Vista Home Premium 32-bit.
Executive summary of the problem: the machine will not boot off the SSD once I tell it to use the plain-vanilla-Microsoft storage controller drivers that (I believe) are necessary to get the Intel SSD Toolbox and TRIM working.
Edit: more detail: it's a BSOD with stop error 7B/C0000034.
Here are the details:
nvidia chipsets have problems running SSDs. If I use the nForce4 SATA controller drivers, the SSD often (though not always, depending on which nvidia SATA driver I choose) shows up as a SCSI device. You read that correctly -- SCSI. I have about four options of SATA controller drivers from nvidia. None of them allow the Intel SSD Toolbox to run TRIM on the drive. I've read that the solution to this is to switch the storage controller drivers back to the Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller, as described here: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1383853&mpage=1&print=true
better link: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=174966
What I want to do is use the SSD as a boot drive. Currently, the hard drive still has Vista installed on it too, so it's a dual boot system. When I boot off the hard drive, I can go and set the storage controller driver for the second channel (that's the SATA port my SSD is plugged into) back to the Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller. I reboot, and the Intel SSD Toolbox can optimize the drive, run TRIM, everything is perfect. I can run the CrystalDiskMark bench and the SSD is operating perfectly.
I can boot off the SSD with the nvidia drivers. But then TRIM won't run, and I can't even complete a CrystalDiskMark bench without the machine hanging. (It usually hangs on the QD32 test). So I want to set the drivers to be the Microsoft ones.
But when I've booted off of the SSD and set the storage controller driver (one or both, no difference) to the Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller and reboot, it won't boot. I'll see the Microsoft Windows spalsh screen for about 3 seconds and then just black. Sometimes it kicks me out to the BIOS splash screen and sometimes it just hangs black forever.
Can someone help me diagnose why it won't boot using the Microsoft storage controller drivers? Thanks!
Hi everyone
I'm having trouble getting an intel ssd320 80GB to work as the boot drive on a dell e521 (edit: nForce430/410 southbridge) with Vista Home Premium 32-bit.
Executive summary of the problem: the machine will not boot off the SSD once I tell it to use the plain-vanilla-Microsoft storage controller drivers that (I believe) are necessary to get the Intel SSD Toolbox and TRIM working.
Edit: more detail: it's a BSOD with stop error 7B/C0000034.
Here are the details:
nvidia chipsets have problems running SSDs. If I use the nForce4 SATA controller drivers, the SSD often (though not always, depending on which nvidia SATA driver I choose) shows up as a SCSI device. You read that correctly -- SCSI. I have about four options of SATA controller drivers from nvidia. None of them allow the Intel SSD Toolbox to run TRIM on the drive. I've read that the solution to this is to switch the storage controller drivers back to the Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller, as described here: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1383853&mpage=1&print=true
better link: http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=174966
What I want to do is use the SSD as a boot drive. Currently, the hard drive still has Vista installed on it too, so it's a dual boot system. When I boot off the hard drive, I can go and set the storage controller driver for the second channel (that's the SATA port my SSD is plugged into) back to the Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller. I reboot, and the Intel SSD Toolbox can optimize the drive, run TRIM, everything is perfect. I can run the CrystalDiskMark bench and the SSD is operating perfectly.
I can boot off the SSD with the nvidia drivers. But then TRIM won't run, and I can't even complete a CrystalDiskMark bench without the machine hanging. (It usually hangs on the QD32 test). So I want to set the drivers to be the Microsoft ones.
But when I've booted off of the SSD and set the storage controller driver (one or both, no difference) to the Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller and reboot, it won't boot. I'll see the Microsoft Windows spalsh screen for about 3 seconds and then just black. Sometimes it kicks me out to the BIOS splash screen and sometimes it just hangs black forever.
Can someone help me diagnose why it won't boot using the Microsoft storage controller drivers? Thanks!
Last edited: