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I'm having some issues configuring my SATA hard drives on my new HTPC with the Gigabyte GA-MA78GPM-UD2H motherboard. I have always had Asus motherboards in the past and never had to do anything special with my SATA drives. However, with this board I must select Native IDE, AHCI, or RAID for my SATA controller. I've done some searching here and on google but can't find the direct answer I'm looking for.
If my SATA drives are set to IDE mode, is this just the default mode and they'll run like normal SATA drives with the speed benefits, or will it be just like an old IDE drive? I'd do AHCI but I had problems booting with them before and after I got Windows installed, and it sounds like it causes a lot of trouble. And I'm not doing any RAID setup so that's out of the question.
Sorry if this is a noob question, but like I said, the two computers I've built in the past have used ASUS motherboards and I never ran into anything like this.
If my SATA drives are set to IDE mode, is this just the default mode and they'll run like normal SATA drives with the speed benefits, or will it be just like an old IDE drive? I'd do AHCI but I had problems booting with them before and after I got Windows installed, and it sounds like it causes a lot of trouble. And I'm not doing any RAID setup so that's out of the question.
Sorry if this is a noob question, but like I said, the two computers I've built in the past have used ASUS motherboards and I never ran into anything like this.