Bought an SSD, so I reinstalled my OS yesterday.  I installed the chipset driver from AMD and restarted.  Upon restarting, a blue screen (BSOD) would pop up for less than a second, then Windows Startup Recovery would start and request to Restore to a previous point.  Restoring fixed the problem.  I tried "Run as Admin" with the same results.  Have not tried my mobo mfr drivers yet (as they are quite old).  Any suggestions? Also, from what I've read the AMD AHCI driver is not preferred.  Still the case?  Everything seems to be running OK without the chipset drivers installed currently.  Thanks.

These are the drivers I tried to install from AMD.

No overclocking.

Graphics Card:
Gigabyte 4890 1GB

AMD Catalyst Driver Version:
12.6

Operating System
Win 7 x64 Ultimate

Motherboard or System Make & Model
ASUS M3A78 with most current firmware (2301)

CPU Details
Athlon 64 X2 6000+

System Memory Type & Amount
(2) 2GB Nanya, (2) 1GB Corsair @ 667MHz

Additional Hardware
Crucial m4 128GB SSD with most current firmware (040H)

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I know that some of the SB750 chipset motherboards have a problem with recent AMD AHCI drivers - these set the AMDsatapmdisabled parameter to an incompatible value  - see http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?278905-possible-problem-sb750-12.1-ahci-driver-bsod-%28and-11.12-revert-workaround%29 . Possibly this issue applies for other SB700 chipsets

Thanks a million!  The AMD AHCI driver installed.

FYI, in comparison to the default Microsoft AHCI driver, my read speeds decreased but write speeds increased.  The overall result is unfortunately slightly decreased performance.  So it looks like I'll be reverting back to the default driver.

Thanks for the help!

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Yes the AHCI the problem exists for me since 12.1

I have 790GX+SB750

 

W7 solution:

x:\AMD\support\xx-x_vista_win7_32-64_sb\Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\SB7xx\AHCI\W764A

Open amd_sata.inf

HKR, "Parameters\Device","AmdSataPMDisabled",%REG_DWORD%, 0

change to

HKR, "Parameters\Device","AmdSataPMDisabled",%REG_DWORD%, 0xFF

(add xFF)

Run setup.exe

 

W8 solution:

x:\AMD\support\xx-x_vista_win7_32-64_sb\Packages\Drivers\SBDrv\SB7xx\AHCI\W764A

Open amd_sata.inf

;HKR, "Parameters\Device","AmdSataPMDisabled",%REG_DWORD%, 0xFF

change to

HKR, "Parameters\Device","AmdSataPMDisabled",%REG_DWORD%, 0xFF

(remove ; char)

Run setup.exe

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AMD Phenom II 1100T | MSI HD5850 1GB OC edition | MSI DKA790GX | 8GB DDR2 G.Skill 1066MHz running at 800MHz | 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black 64MB cache | Windows 7 SP1 x64

I recently retired a 770 based board (M4A77D) and it was never a problem with Windows XP, Vista, 7 or even 8.

 

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Corsair Carbide 300R, TX850V2, Asus M5A99FX PRO R2.0, Phenom II 965 C3 BE, G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3-2133 8 GB, GTX 260 SLI, Asus PA238QR, Windows 7 x64 Enterprise

Asus M4A77D, Athlon64 X2 4200+, DDR2-800 6 GB, HD 5450, cheap 450W, Server 2012