Hey guys,
Anybody see this issue before or have a possible fix?
I just purchased a WD Black 500Gb hard drive to put on a MSI 870A-G54 motherboard and am getting terrible driver performance in ACHI or ide mode. I’ve had several drives in there, standard and ssd before without speed issues before.
Loaded Windows 7 Ultimate the first time and after the first updates it rebooted and froze at the welcome screen…I reset and it loaded fine and I did the updates. Stuff was sluggish, opening windows, programs, surfing web, downloads, etc. but I thought I would wait until I loaded all the AMD chipset drivers. This is in ACHI mode btw with standard MS ACHI 1.0 driver.
What’s funny is the OS would recognize that I had Amd achi hardware but wouldn’t let me load the AMD ACHI drivers, yet it loaded the MS drivers…I ran a hdtune test and it averaged about 89MB with 119MB max but went down to 1.9MB on the slowest, avg access was 16.2ms! I switched to IDE mode but still same crappy results. I had a separate older wd hard drive in there as back up with the same results!
OK, I thought I would reload windows using ACHI mode but same issue and crappy performance, although it is a little snappier this time. I should say that I left the new WD black drive in SATA III (6GB) mode, should I set the jumper to SATA II mode and try it, the mobo does SATA III?
Any suggestions…
