P965 Platimium Correct SATA/IDE Bios Settings

Hi I have finshed building my sons computer and loaded Windows xp Pro twice (first time I didn't load the intel raid drivers so the SATA drive wasn't recognised except in IDE mode).
I have run Sandra to get details of the drives etc and check the windows manager to see what drivers are being used for the hard drive and DVDRW drive
The Samsung drive is using the Intel Raid drivers (checked via device manager) and is reported as being in UDMA 6 (although UDMA 7 is supported reported via Sandra). Speed tests of the hard drive seem to match the standard SATA 300 drive held in Sandra data base.
The DVD is using the standard windows IDE drives in single and dual mode. It is not using the Intel drivers.
I tried fiddling with the BIOS trying different settings in the integrated peripherals menu and here are the results for the different sub menus:
1. On board raid controller
Setting to IDE : I get the DVD RW Recognised as a IDE device and burning capabilities (windows uses the standard IDE drivers not Intel or jmicro)
Setting to RAID: windows recognises the DVD RW as a SCSI device but I don't seem to get any burning facilities with the device (windows uses the jmicro SCSI driver)
2. On chip ATA devices
2.1 IDE master enabled : DVD RW works OK including burning capabilities
IDE master disabled : DVD RW works OK but cant burn a disk
2.2 Setting SATA#1 to ACHI rather than raid Windows hangs (blue screen) during boot up
Setting SARA#1 to RAID windows boots OK and hard drive recognised as ATA drive
(2.2 I know is caused by the fact that I set up the drive as a RAID drive during windows set up so no problem there.)
Please can someone tell me what should the correct bios settings be for 1 no. SATA 300 hard drive and 1 no. IDE DVDROM and what drivers ideally should windows being using. The various RAID and IDE settings are very confusing.
Thanks in advance
System specs
BL2KIT6464AA663Description: 1GB kit (512MBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM Upgrade for a MSI (Micro Star) P965 Platinum System
Core 2 Duo E6400 S775 2.13GHz
GF 7600GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-E DVI
SONY : 18x DVD+/-RW 12X RAM blk drive
SAMSUNG : P120S 250GB S300 7200RPM 8MB
Alien Gaming Case 480W - Black
MSIS775 Intel P965 ATX Audio Lan

Quote from: ksilva on 17-April-07, 03:41:51
One of the features of AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) is Native Command Queuing (NCQ). This allows ATA drives to accept more than one command at a time and reorder commands for efficiency. The reason there is some interest in getting this setup is because it supposedly increases performance. How much of an increase I don't know. I have AHCI setup in the BIOS and Vista installed fine. I read you also need the Intel Storage Matrix drivers but I'm not sure if this just applies to XP or VISTA too; in any case I never installed them. One adverse affect of changing AHCI in the BIOS having already installed XP with no AHCI is that it will not boot afterwards. I wish somebody would weigh in on this issue and give us some good advice on best practices so we can all take full advantage of SATA.
Intel Matrix Storage drivers in AHCI mode will make the hard drives perform a little bit better, but not because of NCQ (on a single user system and OS that is). On most hard drives NCQ will cause performance to go down by a couple percent...

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PC Health Status
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Frequency/Voltage Control
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