How the ThinkPad laptop installs AHCI drive

How does the ThinkPad laptop install AHCI Drive, which is legendary for the motherboard to enable the AHCI feature to speed up the system while the ThinkPad notebook basically supports SATA AHCI functionality, so how do you install and unlock the AHCI feature of the ThinkPad notebook? This method can also resolve the issue of booting the system blue screen after the BIOS reset AHCI. Here is a detailed description of the operation steps:

1, first to download the ThinkPad IMSM driver

Enter the Lenovo website, enter your host number (Thinkpad:type) the first 7 digits, if you do not know what your host number is, then you can click the "automatically get the host number" link, install a plug-in can get your ThinkPad host number, and then the top 7 input. Click the "Query" button.

2. Find the Driver

Select the operating system, host number, and related parts (select the hard drive) as shown in the figure. You can find the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver. Click on the link to download this driver, pay attention to the supported operating system.

3, install IMSM Drive

Log on to the Windows operating system as an administrator, double-click the downloaded driver, the driver will decompress to the following location of the hard drive "C:DRIVERSWINIMSM", first open the "C:driverswinimsmprepare" directory, run as an administrator. Install.cmd ".

4, set the BIOS

Then restart the computer and press F1 to enter the BIOS, change the original "compatiblity" option to "AHCI" in Config->select serial ATA (SATA), and press F10 to save the exit.

5, update the driver

After entering the system again, right-click the standard AHCI 1.0 Traverse ATA Controller under IDE ATA/ATAPI controller in Device Manager, select the update driver, select the specified location to install, and specify the C:DRIVERSWINIMSM directory search installation. The system restarts after installation.

6, reboot after the installation and open AHCI settings are complete.

Note: This method resolves the issue of booting the system blue screen after the BIOS has reset AHCI.