vwsoldier Posted December 4, 2011 Share Posted December 4, 2011 Hi, I have installed win7 in IDE mode I have fixed the registry to allow AHCI drivers to load rebooted Changed in the bios under tab "Storage Device Configuration" -to AHCI Changed the Marvell Controlled setting from IDE to AHCI boot up again finish installing drivers for AHCI reboot, boot again, everything seems fine and I can normally load into windows7 than when I go back in the bios Marvell is set to AHCI and the drive seems to be in AHCI under Storage device configuration but when I look in the tab "Boot" under boot device priority I have my Corsair SSD force 3 listed as primary boot device but if I closely look at the value it says : IDE:Corsair With the AS SSD Benchmark software I only get 190mb read and 160mb write far away from the 550mb read and 500mb write speeds from the manufacturer specs By the way, I just can't update the firmware from 1.3 to 1.3.3 because the flash tool just doesn't recognize my drive...nothing is listed under the list PLEASE HELP MOBO : Asus sabertooth latest bios version CPU : i7 Bloomfield 960 3.2Ghz SSD: Corsair Force 3 180Gb 1,3 firmware Mem : ******** Viper II 1333 24Gb GPU: EVGA GTX590 updated marvell driver to 1.20 still 190mb read 180mb write Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vwsoldier Posted December 4, 2011 Author Share Posted December 4, 2011 Finally I ve been able to update the firmware using the flash tool But i was able to do so only when I disconnected the SSD from the sata3 ports and reconnect it to a sata 2 port. This way the flash tool was able to find the SSD. It was never able to find the SSD while plugged into the SATA 3 port. Updated from 1.3.2 to 1.3.3 without problems, rebooted (by the way, under boot device priority in the bios, when the ssd was pluged into sata 2 port, it was listed as : HDD Corsair Force 3 and when it is plugged into sata 3 ports it says under boot device priority : IDE Corsair Force 3) WTF does that mean and why is it still listed as IDE even if marvell controller and all others components run under AHCI standards??? Now I get these speeds see the benchmark picture I guess the lack of speed now refers to the poor marvell controller on my mobo (asus sabertooth x58) If only I knew the board wasn't even featuring a TRUE SATA 6gb, I would never had bought this sabertooth x58 SHAME ON ASUS for HIDDING the TRUTH!!! and Newegg also!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duke533 Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 I also have Sabertooth x58 (with Corsair Force 3 GT) but my reading/writing speed way bellow than others. my setup: bios update: 1304 (latest from asus) port: marvell 9128 (sata3) ahci: on SSD fw. 1.3.3 (updated from 1.3.2) Secure erase: done Marvell driver: 1.2.0.1016 (latest from marvell) ssd6.png: made just after the SSD fw. update and Secure erase ssd7.png: now, 5 days later It seems the speed is dropping, the write speed now always under 150MB/s Is there any other trick to improve performance? I also have some lockup issues, but thats an another story... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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