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P5Q Pro Turbo SATA port in SATA 1 mode with Windows XP

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First post, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2022-04-16, 01:47

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This is my overkill Windows XP machine, and I just upgraded it from a Gigabyte EP43-DS3L to a P5Q Pro Turbo. I had this same issue with the Gigabyte board, but I just chalked that up to an oddity of the board. I know both boards have SATA 2 ports, but in both cases they read as SATA 150 in Crystaldisk Info, and the drive speed of 140 MB/s with a Team Group SSD is consistent with that.

With both boards I installed XP with the SATA port set to IDE mode, then force updated the driver and rebooted and set the port to AHCI in hopes that would move it from SATA 150 to SATA 300 but that had no effect. I recall getting 250+ MB/s with my old P5Q Pro and an SSD with Windows 7, and if I put an LSI RAID card in the lower X16 PCIe slot in this board it gets 500+ MB/s consistent with SATA 600. But that card slows the boot as it is detecting the drive, I don't really need it, I'd just like to find a way to get these SATA 2 ports set the way they're supposed to be.

After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?

Reply 1 of 2, by red-ray

Posted on 2022-04-16, 08:51

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I used to have an ASUS P5Q PRO Turbo which died some time after 2016-09-27 @ 15:59:30, but I still have a SIV save file from it.

Looking in the save file I can see the Seagate ST3320613AS was attached to the motherboards Intel® ICH10R SATA RAID Controller and running at SATA 300. Given this and that you also saw SATA150 on your Gigabyte EP43-DS3L I suspect the issue may be related to the disk drive.

If you post similar to as below I may be able to say more.

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Reply 2 of 2, by Repo Man11

Posted on 2022-04-16, 19:59

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It was the hard drive. It seems that the Team Group SSD I was using has a firmware that drops it down to SATA 1 if the drive is connected to anything other than a SATA 3 port. This might enhance compatibility with some older hardware, but it leads to a disappointing result here. I tried installing Windows 10 to eliminate the OS/drivers as a cause, and it had the same result, reported as SATA 150 in Crystaldisk Info. I tried installing XP on a Seagate SSHD, and it was properly recognized as a SATA 300 drive.

So I swapped in a Patriot 120 SSD, and it was recognized as a SATA 300, and gives me 270/234 read and write in MB/s as measured by CrystalDiskMark.

After watching many YouTube videos about older computer hardware, YouTube began recommending videos about trains - are they trying to tell me something?

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