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  • Penfold7
    PCHF Member
    • Jul 2021
    • 165

    #1

    Installation issue

    Built my so a PC a while ago. It used to have random freezing issues, that were solved with invaluable help on this forum to a poor quality psu.
    Anyhow recently its been having random issues where the hdd stops responding and occ freezes.
    He wanted a new gpu, so I thought I would also get a new ssd hdd to replace the older normal hdd, which to be fair was, quite old, and I hoped it would cure the unresponsiveness.
    Put it all together, but during the installation of windows 10, during the file transfer it errored out with a missing file error. Redid the install USB a couple of times but still the same.
    Noticed in the bios that the Sata ports it was not using were set to AHCI, the ones it was were set to IDE. Set them to ACHI and windows installed no problem.
    Could these ports being set to IDE be the source of all his issues??, or could it have just been a corrupt windows installation.
    Of note, since the install, all been fine.

    I’m just wondering for my own education ???
  • veeg
    PCHF Director
    • Jul 2016
    • 8978

    #2
    Hello

    let me tag @PeterOz for more help

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    • Penfold7
      PCHF Member
      • Jul 2021
      • 165

      #3
      Thanks. I’ll await Peters response.

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      • Penfold7
        PCHF Member
        • Jul 2021
        • 165

        #4
        Just of note, new gpu is a radeon 6600 replacing a radeon rx570. Psu is a Seasonic gold 650w

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        • PeterOz
          PCHF Technical Response Team
          • Mar 2021
          • 4190

          #5
          Yes IDE is older tech
          [ul]
          [li]Choose IDE if you have classic devices such as motherboards, drives, and RAM.[/li][li]Choose AHCI if you want higher data transfer rates; it even supports new and advanced technologies like NVMe and SATA Express[/li][/ul]
          From here AHCI vs IDE vs RAID: Which SATA System Is Best For You? .

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          • Penfold7
            PCHF Member
            • Jul 2021
            • 165

            #6
            Thanks. Would that be the reason windows refused to install?

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            • PeterOz
              PCHF Technical Response Team
              • Mar 2021
              • 4190

              #7
              Yes

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              • Penfold7
                PCHF Member
                • Jul 2021
                • 165

                #8
                Brill thanks for the advice and help.

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                • Bruce
                  PCHF Moderator
                  • Oct 2017
                  • 10697

                  #9
                  Shall we closed this as solved?

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                  • Penfold7
                    PCHF Member
                    • Jul 2021
                    • 165

                    #10
                    Yes please. I was looking to mark as solved, but couldn’t see anything obvious ???

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