EDIT: Sir…what your talking now is a standart MS IDE driver that an OS is using…
Nothing to do with a possible bios mod for AHCI or a motherboard configured as AHCI.
Bios versions available are A08 (2020 and A10 (2013) by Dell dates…
The link shared is a mod version of the A10… better read the thread link and see users reports.
But be warned that this is an Intel H61chipset motherboard that usually doesnt support AHCI by Intel specs…unless a mod or OEM specific change.
Seeing this option locked or unlocked in bios its one thing, support by the chipset is another.
Actually the system bios is the a03 and “AS SSD” states that the storage driver used is pciide.sys.
Should I try just to update the bios with the suggested on the support site? Actually there is showed as the last one the a08 published in 2020 while the a10 is from 2013…
I know I were talking about the driver, it was to point that the bios is set to IDE and not to AHCI.
It has to do with a possible mod for AHCI! I need to set it to get the OS use the AHCI driver, obviously!
In any case the modded bios set to AHCI does it use AHCI mode or not?
BTW that statement that H61 chipset doesn’t support AHCI by Intel specs is incorrect, there are several H61 motherboards out there with native AHCI support.
Your are correct and i wrong… my Library AI BOT just failed me and now he got a motnth of punishment 5.16.12 AHCI Operation
Final note i dont have such system or motherboard to report to you witch be driver will used by the OS when and if possible an AHCI mod applied.
You can wait for other users opinions on the subject, all the best, good luck.
PS: I went read a bit this old thread from the top… theres various mentions to “AHCI doesnt work…” read from the top if you want and take out your own conclusions.
On the other hand theres an user on the previous linked thread on Bios-Mods, that seems to be successful doing the instructed modifications and claims that new drivers for AHCI were loaded.
Well, ok, thank you anyway, I was already reading that thread on that other forum. Initially I wanted only to get AHCI, then I found this other thread here about setting up UEFI mod.
Unluckily it seems to be the only one about it in all the web.
Btw don’t be so harsh on your Library AI BOT, maybe it didn’t do it on purpose ^^;
No he did not… it was only from my recalls of course, do you think every time i try to help here ill go to my “basement of knowledge” …too much “stairs”.
But im obliged to confim the info, so thats why i shared the PDF and my correction.
Cheers
EDIT: Yeah, A08 i tried to extract it also and couldnt… didnt lost more time with it, but seems all ok with A10 since i could extract it/run.
There a lot of bioses from this era, 2010 to 2012, like that… no real UEFI support.
Ok. TL,DR: I achieved to get AHCI up and running, but not UEFI support.
Long version:
I dumped the original A03 bios with AMIBCP 4.55, then I tried to enable AHCI.
On windows 10, storahci was already set in the registry but it BSODded nevertheless with an “inaccessible boot drive”. After a bootrec /fixmbr, bootsect /nt60 sys and bootrec /fixboot it booted normally, with the storahci driver this time.
UEFI boot seems to not being related to the Advanced/PCI Subsystem Settings/PCI ROM Priority , since it’s about Option Rom (read the Control Help String, or the description in the bios itself).
I tried also to force 1st Boot menu to UEFI in the Boot menu, to no avail.
It seems that Dell wanted to include UEFI but at the very last moment it removed it, not completely tho.
That’s a shame.
If I can’t try anything else, I would install the latest bios, the A10 with only the AHCI enabled, sadly.
P.s.: by the way, the A08 installer doesn’t work, if you try to launch it, it does absolutely nothing, the .exe won’t remain in memory running also.
it was only from my recalls of course, do you think every time i try to help here ill go to my “basement of knowledge” …too much “stairs”.