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Adding A Second SSD Meant Changing To AHCI. Now My Work PC Blue Screens

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after switching, Device Manager should show Standard SATA AHCI Controller or Standard NVM Express Controller... the RST/RAID driver can stay installed; it just wont be used. u can remove it later via Apps or pnputil if you want.

  1. Ivan Vos
    @ivanv500

    every guide for adding a second SSD says AHCI, my work PC came configured with RAID mode and teh DR16-B Firmware storage dirver.

    Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're

    Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We're
just collecting some error info, and then we'll restart for
you.
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If you call a support person, give them this info:
Stop code: IRQL_NOT_LESS_OR_EQUAL

    Thats what happens if I just flip the switch. I dont want to reinstall Windows if I can avoid it. Whats the correct, safe procedure to switch, and do I need to uninstall teh RAID driver first? I have a backup of my documetns, but Id really prefer to keep my installed programs and settings intact if possible.

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  2. Idris
    @idriss93

    Is it a single drive, or do you have an actual RAID array?

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  4. Tomas Duarte
    @cronprobe
    in reply to @ivanv500

    windows only loads teh stroage driver needed for the current mode at boot ;) switch modes and it cant find its boot disk. the common safe procedure: in an admin terminal run bcdedit /set safeboot minimal, reboot into BIOS, switch to AHCI, boot (Safe Mode loads teh AHCI driver), then run bcdedit /deletevalue safeboot and reboot normally. worked for me anyway 🤷

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  5. Fenna Iqbal
    @pingwrangler

    for me it was teh fan curve... swapped it and boom, fixed

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  6. Ibrahim Dubois
    @idubois-2nd

    Back up first. The safe-mode method works in most cases, but if you use real RAID volumes (multiple drives), switching to AHCI will break the array. only do this with single-drive setups.

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  7. Farah M.
    @nimbuslab
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    after switching, Device Manager should show Standard SATA AHCI Controller or Standard NVM Express Controller... the RST/RAID driver can stay installed; it just wont be used. u can remove it later via Apps or pnputil if you want.

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  8. Ivan Vos
    @ivanv500
    in reply to @nimbuslab

    @nimbuslab BIOS reset was teh culprit. set it back to RAID and left it there since i dont need AHCI after all. seriously made my day 😭🙏

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