How does AHCI mode open

Starting with Win8, the hard drive needs to turn on AHCI mode, and for a computer equipped with SSD solid-state drives, only AHCI mode is enabled to perform the best performance of solid-state drives. So how does AHCI mode turn on? Next small series to give you a detailed introduction to the BIOS set up the hard disk AHCI mode method, still do not know friends, quickly to learn.

BIOS setup turn on hard drive AHCI mode method steps:

The first step: reboot or Boot computer, in the boot screen, immediately press the DEL key into the BIOS setup interface, in the BIOS Settings window using the keyboard key to select "Config" option, and then select "Serial ATA (SATA)", press ENTER to confirm, As shown in the following illustration:

Step two: After you turn on serial ATA (SATA), you will see the "SATA comtroller mode option [Compatibility]" option, and then press ENTER to select it, as shown in the following figure:

Step three: The Selection window pops up, we switch the mode to "AHCI", press ENTER to confirm, as shown in the following figure:

Fourth: After the hard drive mode switch, we can see that the parentheses after "SATA comtroller mode option" are changed to "AHCI", as shown in the following figure:

Operation to this we will change the hard disk mode to AHCI mode, and finally do not forget to press the F10 key to save the settings.

It should be noted that different brand motherboard BIOS Settings AHCI mode method is different, for example, some motherboards are the following settings.

1, BIOS setup interface, select integrated peripherals enter, as shown.

2, into the integrated peripherals select PCH SATA control mode, and then select the following AHCI mode.

3, after the completion of the set, the same is to press F10 key, and then press ENTER to confirm the save exit.

In general, it is not difficult for BIOS settings to turn on the hard drive AHCI mode, but because the BIOS interface is in English and different motherboard BIOS setup interfaces differ, this may be difficult for novice friends at the beginning. However, in general, the different brand motherboards, set the steps are basically the same, I hope you can read this article to be practical.

Finally, it is worth mentioning that the following two conditions are required to turn on hard drive AHCI mode: First, the motherboard supports AHCI mode because the AHCI feature is opened in the BIOS. The second is the hard disk for SATA hard drive, and need to be SATA2 or SATA3 specifications. It may not be supported for some older motherboards and cannot be opened in BIOS setup