cpuz says Model: IP35 (Intel P35+ICH9/R).
I was hoping not to install windows 7 with the SATA in IDE mode, as I've read several places that to get the best performance out of my SSD it should be installed in AHCI mode.
I have never flashed the BIOS on my motherboard, and it is over 2 years...
Not sure I understand. Do you mean that I have to flash the motherboard to install the correct SATA drivers? If I change the motherboard SATA settings to IDE mode instead of AHCI everyting shows up as it is suppose to do, but when I use AHCI it cant find anything.
I am in the process of installing windows 7 on my SSD drive. For the best performance I entered BIOS and changed the SATA mode from IDE to AHCI. When I rebooted I ended up with a blue screen. Changed it back to IDE, booted into Vista and did some registry changes to enable AHCI.
Ok...reboot...