Win 7 wont boot after irst 9.6.0.1014 update

[idata]

Hi!

I recently bought a X25-M 80GB drive and installed win 7 x64 on it. I had Raid mode set in the BIOS during install, as i wich to add a raid array later for storage.

All went well untill i updated the storage driver to 9.6.0.1014 and now the system only boots if i set BIOS to IDE mode. If i use RAID or ACHI mode the pc just hangs with a blak screen when booting into windows!

I benched ssd performance with as-ssd-bench and in IDE mode the performance is a lot worse than in RAID mode (almost half the result). Dont know if this is due to driver 9.6 malfuction compared to driver 8.6 wich comes originally with win 7.

I reinstalled the OS, creatting a restore point before installing 9.6 driver and the same happened! Only boots in IDE mode, so i restored the system to 8.6 driver.

My doubt is about TRIM... Will it work with BIOS in RAID mode and 8.6 driver?? Is Intel SSD optmizer the same as TRIM??

Thanks in advance!!

[idata]

This is bizarre. I'm having exactly the same problem on my ASUS P5Q PRO TURBO with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit and can't seem to find any kind of workaround. Have you guys found anything?

[Charles_F_Intel]

Hello,

I'm not clear if this is an SSD issue or an RST 9.6 issue. This seems to be more of an RST issue, as what I'm reading seems to indicate the SSD works fine with older version of storage driver. For RST issues, there is another community forum that you should look for answers:

/community/tech/graphics http://communities.intel.com/community/tech/graphics

Or if you can't find help there, then please contact Intel Customer Support for more direction.

http://www.intel.com/support/feedback.htm http://www.intel.com/support/feedback.htm

If you can isolate that it is the SSD that is the problem, then please let us know.

Thanks,

Brady (Intel SSD tech)