Possible on a Satellite L300D AHCI?

Hello

I just installed an SSD in my mother age L300D - 12L, hoping to give him a nice performance boost.
It installed and cloned from the original fine, disc but I was surprised to see that it takes now about 5 seconds more to start with the old mechanical drive!

Further investigation found that the SATA controller is defined as a controller dual channel IDE under Windows, giving thus no support the AHCI, but I don't seem to be able to get to use a compatible driver AHCI. There is no option in the BIOS to enable the AHCI or disable and manually force the driver to the Microsoft Standard ACHI 1.0 controller does nothing, although it doesn't let me do to the secondary controller.

I thought to re - install Windows from scratch, but I'd rather not if I can avoid it, and I'm not convinced it will make no difference anyway.

Is it possible to get this machine to enable AHCI mode? From what I can tell, the ATI/AMD chipset is supposed to support...

Many thanks for any help.

Edit: Should probably mention that running Windows 7 x 64 and the BIOS and all drivers are up to date.

Post edited by: MaximumFish

Hello

The support of L300D - 12L SATA HDD so need a SATA controller.
Some BIOS supports an additional option to set the SATA mode between compatible (IDE) and AHCI (SATA) mode.
If the BIOS does not have the SATA AHCI (SATA) mode option is already selected.

In addition, this laptop is equipped with a controller AMD and ATI graphics chip and that's why the Intel driver doesn't work here.

Remember that the SATA driver has always been a part of the display driver.
In the package, there must be a folder containing the files of the SATA driver.

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