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Thanks Mike. You led me to research on SSD drives that I hadn't done before. As far as I understand AHCI definitely is optimal as it dramatically increases performance. However, TRIM does work without it...it just isn't as fast. At least this is what I took from the readings I've been doing...

Well I did mention in my original post it wasn't OEM since I said it was custom built desktop ;) I appreciate the input unfortunately I can't redo the clone since the original is gone. Also, I don't think it's the drive since I am running Ubuntu without any issues at all. In fact its blazing...

To be clear, the system does eventually work. It hangs on the "Please wait" message for 4-8 hours then the login screen will come up and I am able to use windows without any issues. I am not sure when the issue with "Please Wait" started. It might have been a week or two after I installed the...

drivers should be good. I don't have any missing drivers for anything, and they should be up to date. I guess I'll try to go through and see if any drivers need updating. In case it's helpful my motherboard is an Asus P5QL Pro with an Intel Core 2 quad cpu (Q8200). AHCI is turned off.

Hi, I tried looking for a solution for this but can't find one. I have a custom built desktop running windows 8 that is getting stuck at "Please Wait" with the spinning circle just before login. It does this on and off. It wasn't doing it for a while then just started again. I tried cleaning...