Hi Guys, I am new here so please bear with me. I have an OLD Compaq SR5275AP desktop with an ECS 945GCT-HM motherboard BIOS is v5.25 running Windows 7. Recently I install a Crucial M4 128gb (Read 450mb/s / Write 175mb/s) SSD as my main drive. My benchmarks show I am getting about 50% of its capability.
I am aware that enable AHCI mode will improve SSD capability but my BIOS does not have this option. I then try to update controller driver with the Intel® Matrix Storage & Intel® RST drivers but both failed (error saying does not meet the minimum requirement).
Are there any ways that could possibly improve the SSD performance? Thanks in advance…
With your ECS 945GCT-HM mainboard you cannot install any AHCI driver, because the on-board Intel SATA Controller obviously doesn’t support the AHCI standard features.
If you want to get the full SSD performance, you will need a system with an actual AHCI supporting SATA3 Controller. Alternatively you may buy and insert a SATA3 PCI Express card (if your mainboard has a free PCIe lane and will support booting off it), but I doubt, that it will be worth a try.
