M11x Owners, Blue Screen, ATA/AHCI

All,

I found something strange today. I received a BSOD when I went into the bios and changed the drive configuration from AHCI to ATA. I have an SSD installed. I tried several times and repeated the blue screen. Then I switched back to ahci. I went out and installed the latest matrix/chipset driver for mobile gs45 chipset from intel. Booted again in ATA and still no go.

The reason I started down this path was because I was playing blu-ray with the asus slim bdrom and powerdvd9 and it would stutter about every 5 minutes or so. (I dont have any dell backup software or anything like that enabled).

I thought it might help to switch the bios to ata mode instead of ahci.

any thoughts on this? anyone else boot into ata instead of ahci get the same error?

Thanks,

StevenX

 

have you tried other BD player software intead of powerdvd?

 

If I remember correctly, I believe you have to set some specific registry settings in Windows in order to switch between ACHI and ATA..

 

found it:

Error message when you start a Windows 7 or Windows Vista-based computer after you change the SATA mode of the boot drive: "STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE"

 

Js.. thanks sir! rep'd. Here is my dilemna though.. I need to know what the start values are BEFORE changing them to 0 to enable ahci. I want to REVERT back to IDE from AHCI. Can this be done?

Best wishes,

StevenX