Here are the latest articles published on Toms Hardware. See the latest news, reviews and roundups and access our tech archives. How to install CSR Bluetooth device drivers and enable Bluetooth headset profile HSP on Microsoft Windows 7 Vista Server 2008 32 and 64bit x86 x64. Sata Mode AHCI IDE. Hey everyone. I hope everyone is doing fine. Ive literally rebuilt my entire machine but I think I made a mistake before installing Windows 7. Adobe Activation Server List 2015 on this page. I should have gone over the BIOS with a fine tooth comb, but I did not. The SATA mode is set to IDE instead of AHCI or RAID and now of course, I cant switch it to my knowledge without getting a BSOD. It means I would have to reinstall the OS over again. I have been reading up online and did a search here, but didnt find the appropriate thead. Dell Oem Vista Hp To 7 Hp X640I have two questions. I read on a forum somewhere, where an Intel user used a program to change this in Windows somehow. Is there some kind of utility that will allow me to switch to AHCI mode without reinstalling Win. Second question, is it worth it to switch over I see the benefits are this AHCI mode brings 3 main advantages Supports NCQ Native Command Queuing allowing SATA drives to accept more than one command at a time and dynamically reorder the commands for maximum efficiency. Supports hot plugging of devices. Supports staggered spin ups of multiple hard drives at boot time. Capture.PNG' alt='Dell Oem Vista Hp To 7 Hp X64 Drivers' title='Dell Oem Vista Hp To 7 Hp X64 Drivers' />My machine seems kind of slow when accessing data and dont know if this is an issue with the SATA drives being in IDE mode. I got some choppiness in some games thats coming from access data tested and that seems weird but could definitely come from SATA drives being in IDE mode. I got an MSI R5. 77. Hawk Video card. Im freaking in love with that thing I have two Hitachi 7. RPM SATA and one Seagate Barracuda 7. RPM SATA drive. All three are 5. GBMy new machine is ASRock M3. A7. 70. DE Mainboard and I successfully unlocked the 4th core on my AMD Athlon 4. Phenom X4 3. 1 and its running beautifully. Ran a stability test and it was perfect. RAM is Kingston Hyper. X CAS8 running at 1. So my question. to AHCI or not. Do you think its worth it. Have you noticed huge performance gains. So now I guess I better update my profile and sorry I havent been around.