

We request you to download the Intel SATA drivers directly from the Intel website. I have received reply from the concerned team. “Thank you for contacting ASUS technical support. I had opened a support ticked with ASUS tech support and this is the response I received: When I launch Samsung Magician can I see that AHCI is disabled.

Right-click on each of the listed items in this category, then select Update driver. Expand the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers category. Press and hold the Windows key on your keyboard, then press R. Now under the IDE ATA/ATAP Controllers heading I only have ONE entry instead of the original three: Standard SATA AHCI Controller. I boot from an UEFI partition on a Samsung SSD EVO 850, 500 GB. Install or update drivers for Standard SATA AHCI Controller. Choose 'Device Manager' under the 'System' section to open the utility. Click on the 'System and Security' category. Select the 'Control Panel' from the menu to open a window. If Microsoft Standard SATA AHCI Driver fails to load or initialize, the error is logged. Click on the Windows orb logo at the bottom of the desktop to show the 'Start' menu. I went to ASMEDIA website and downloaded their latest SATA Drivers and now under the Storage Controllers heading I have the following 3 entries: two Asmedia 106x SATA Controllers and one Microsoft Storage Spaces Controller. The Microsoft Standard SATA AHCI Driver service is a kernel mode driver. I really appreciate your help! When I first posted a few days back in device manager I had listed under the IDE ATA/ATAP Controllers heading the following 3 entries: Standard SATA AHCI Controller. The Intel sata driver installs with the chipset driver.
