So I upgraded my older Lenovo A55 series 8705 machine to a Samsung 840 series SSD and it boots just fine and runs perfectly if connected to the mb sata connector. Problem is that it's an older machine and the SATA ports are first version, so max transfer speeds are 1.5Gb/s. The drive is the newest SATA III capable of 6Gb/s. I bought a PCIe x1 card and its installed and visible with proper drivers in Device Manager. I want to connect the SSD to this PCIe card to maximize the SATA III speeds but when I connect that way, the system does not even see the SSD. In BIOS, I moved PCI SCSI to the available boot devices, but the SSD is not showing at all. When the SSD is connected directly to the SATA I port on the mb, it sees it perfectly in BIOS and is set to the #1 boot device in both Primary and Auto.
How can I get this to boot when the SSD is connected to the PCIe card? I already see massive speed improvement over my old Seagate 7200rpm HDD and I'm pretty happy as-is, but I really want to see what it can do attached to a SATA III port.
Thanks in advance!
How can I get this to boot when the SSD is connected to the PCIe card? I already see massive speed improvement over my old Seagate 7200rpm HDD and I'm pretty happy as-is, but I really want to see what it can do attached to a SATA III port.
Thanks in advance!