H61M-P23 and AHCI

I have purchase H61M-P23 from Microcenter. According to the documentation, this board should have AHCI support. However, in BIOS (version 17), I don't see that option. All I see is IDE and DISABLE. I know other boards like H61M-E33 had same problem and MSI released a beta BIOS. Not sure if there is a beta BIOS for H61M-P23 also. Please help. Thanks.

Quote from: HU16E on 16-April-11, 11:08:49
Your welcome. Did you get it installed & AHCI is showing up ok now?
No, it totally screwed up. I used the same Beta to update H61M-E33 which worked fine. I did not read the thread completely. The beta BIOS is NOT for H61M-P23. I did not read the thread and updated the BIOS!!!! Now after the BIOS upgrade, I don't get video. Looks like the motherboard is trying to use the integrated video, but H61M-P23 does not have a integrated video!!
Any advice please?

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In UEFI, it even describes each of the settings like AHCI was supposed to be an option, but it's just not there. It doesn't look like I'm alone, either. I see a couple mentions of this around the internet, but I didn't see anything here so I thought I'd ask.
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Quote from: HU16E on 29-March-11, 06:12:44
Might be some information concerning that in this thread; https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=146755.0
Interesting. I didn't see that thread because it's on a different board. So two of MSi's H61 boards are exhibiting this problem. I do see they share the same firmware, and looking around online there are rumors that H61MU-E35 has a UEFI update on the way to fix the issue.
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Where does the little speaker plug in on the MB?
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Plugged in the SSD, pressed the power switch and got nothing (no lights, no fans, no beeps) on the first attempt, both times. Removed SSD, cleared CMOS, plugged in SATA hard drive, pressed power switch, again nothing.
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Hello,
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Write: 241.30 MB/s                                                                  210.29 MB/s
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Write: 63.62 MB/s                                                                      51.90 Mb/s
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Write: 247                                                                                159
Total: 640                                                                                271
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