I have 4 HDDs that I'm running in AHCI mode using the AMD 9.10 AHCI driver. It cold boots fine, but when I restart, it hangs at AHCI Drive Init. It then reports that my 3 non-boot drives have SMART errors. At this point I have to press the reset button. It will usually then boot normally. Any ideas?

 

System specs:

AMD Phenom II 955, Gigabyte MA790XT-UD4P (F6 bios), 4 GB DDR3 1333, Windows 7 Ultimate x64.

During the drive initialization it relies on the motherboard BIOS and not the AHCI driver (msahci.sys, the default windows driver you should be using, does not load until late in the windows boot sequence). Talk to Gigabyte.

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ASUS Crosshair Formula III
Phenom II X3 720BE @ ~3.43ghz
HT Link & CPU/NB Frequency @ ~2500mhz
8GiB OCZ Platinum DDR3 1600 @ 1664 7-7-7-16 1T 43.5ns avg latency
Sapphire Radeon HD 5970 OC 800/1150 (stock voltage)
SeaSonic M12 SS-700HM
Vista x64 SP2