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Thanks for finding that. I HAVE had issues with W7 and W8 sometimes (both on AMD and Intel) machines in the past when installing/configuring initial systems with a lot of memory (over 4GB). I don't know if that is/was the fix (removing some memory to get it to work, and then upgrading the...

Well, the MB in question - the dead cmos battery - is MSI - MS-7327 Ver.1.0 (K9AGM2-F / L), in case you run across anything. The Gigabytes are very good MBs for AMD equipment, and the higher end Biostars - which I like to use for my own systems. They get along with everything.

No - there is no such thing as primary and secondary controllers as far as AMD chipsets are concerned - unless you're referencing primary/secondary ON the IDE contoller. Let me clarify. With AMD SB(southbrdge) chipsets, all the various functions are part of the chip - similar to nvidia...

Both Biostar and MSI provide the F6 drivers, but they don't work when loaded that way on install (not all cases, but enough to make it a bad guess to waste time doing that if W8 will already recognize the drive without). The best (better) way is to let W8 load the generic Microsoft AHCI driver...

That's interesting. It looks to confirm that there seems to be some AHCI drivers that when installed caused what I had experienced with the biostar MB and windows update (although that driver was dated sometime in 2013). Would be nice if they took their investigation a step further and...

I'll try to answer in the proper order here. 1. The system initially was setup as AHCI and booted just fine that way for the 3 mo. it's been a W8.1 system. Prior to that it was for several years an XP system - thus I'm not too concerned with why the cmos battery went low - it's not a brand new...

Your thoughts do echo mine, and I did change not only that setting but error control - and it didn't work (not that it doesn't work in some cases). But again, I am currently on a machine that is AMD, AMD AHCI driver loaded, boots and works just fine in that mode, and when I go into the registry...

Nothing wrong with the motherboard - it was just a low cmos battery. Most AMD motherboards, until really just recently, default to IDE as the setting, with AHCI actually having to be selected if you wanted it that way. The controller isn't 'changing' per say - this only happened because of the...

Apologies for those that had to see that last strung out post. Was attempting to attach what I thought was a small pic of Win8.1-32Oem Sleeve. Will try that later - but it's a real animal

Not True - being a vendor myself, I can assure you. And this problem isn't relegated to just 32 bit systems anyhow - I have run into this on 64 bit/OEM/PRO, etc etch. Let's not cloud the issue with something that isn't the problem please, the version isn't part of it. The fix may eventually...

I might add, when a system like this gets changed from AHCI back to native IDE, if you look at system restore - it will show the original boot C drive (as well as any other partition of that drive) as missing, and the currently booted (same drive, just running IDE mode) marked drive C as unable...

Hi all, Here's my situation. I have seen many thread about people having problems with win 8/8.1 and AHCI, and haven't seen an actual working fix for them. In my situation, I have a system that I originally installed for someone, as a fresh, complete W8.1 OEM, 32 bit, clean install -...