Blue screen when enabling AHCI mode in Windows 8.1

justinope

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Hey all,

I tried installing the 8.1 Intel SATA/RAID driver from the ASUS website P8Z68-V motherboard model, but when enabling AHCI in BIOS I'm getting blue screens which is making me think something isn't configured properly in the OS. Does anyone know how to properly enable this in 8.1 yet? I'd definitely appreciate the extra speed out of my SSD :)
 

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I'm not 100% sure but I think you have to enable ACHI before installing windows, I don't think you can change it on a current installation.
 

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Before changing to AHCI in BIOS, You can try:
  1. WinX+R->regedit.exe
  2. Navigate to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci
  3. Right click on Start->Modify and set it to value 0
  4. Reboot your PC and access BIOS then change it to AHCI

Good Luck !!!
 

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Usually, when an OS is installed and the AHCI driver is installed and enabled it will crash the system. If the registry edit doesn't work then a clean install will be needed.

Also, if running a SSD, AHCI is recommended to be enabled.
 

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ahh I guess I was just hoping there was a way to go back and fix it afterwards like in win 7/8. theres no registry key like topgundcp described in 8.1
 

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It would not hurt if You create one as follows to see if it works:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci]
"Start"=dword:00000000
 

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    MSI-Z97
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    16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
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    NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
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    X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
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    Dual HP-W2408
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This is what I did to get ahci working again.

Hello, I had this problem with windows 8.1, I remember reading this on another forum. I had ahci working with windows 8.1 but i'm not sure what I did, maybe when updating my mb bios I went back to ide mode. Then when I tried to enable ahci once more, I got the blue screen each time I booted. So I went to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, Current Control Set, services, storahci, Start Override, then I double clicked on the zero where it says REG_DWORD and changed the value from 3 to 0 (zero) , close down regedit, reboot, go into your bios and select ahci, save changes and then reboot. I just tried it just now and I am back using ahci mode. Hope that helps. :)
 

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@gordon67 Yes it helps! Thanks!
 

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