Problem booting with AHCI instead of IDE

Hi guys,

I'm having a really annoying problem here. A few days ago I updated my motherboard firmware. This all went smoothly but it reset all my bios settings, so I had to redo my overclocking. Now a few days later I am experiencing weird hickups and I then noticed it also reset other settings in my BIOS, it is now running IDE and not AHCI. (!!@#@#$)

I am now wanting to switch this back but when AHCI is set in the BIOS Windows seems to not like it and keeps wanting to do an automatic repair which keeps failing.

I've tried forcing AHCI drivers through regedit but no luck.

Any idea how to solve this? Any suggestions are appreciated.

Alright I have solved it.

In search, write cmd, right click it and run it in administrator mode.
Type the following command to enable SafeMode boot:
bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal

Restart the computer and boot to the system BIOS. This is normally done by by pressing the delete key during system boot.
Update the ATA Drive setting in the BIOS from ATA Mode to AHCI Mode. Save the setting and restart your computer to boot into Windows.

Windows will boot in SafeMode as per step 2.
Open the command prompt again by following step 1 and run the following command to remove the the SafeMode boot option:
bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot

Restart the computer and boot normally.