I've got my new computer assembled (first time builder) and need a couple of things answered.
1. In the BIOS under "Storage Configuration" it asks "Configure SATA as" IDE, RAID or AHCI. I will be running two disk drives, a 160 gig primarily for the OS and a 1tb for everything else. I want these two drives to be independent so I'm pretty sure RAID is not for me. I don't really know much about IDE or AHCI but IDE seems to be an older setup. I'm thinking AHCI even though I'm not sure what it means or does? Then if I select AHCI and go to "AHCI Configuration" it's finding all SATA Ports as "Not Detected". I guess that's normal since I really have nothing hooked up at this point?
2. Also under "System Information", it says "System Memory Usable Size 2040MB even though I've installed 4 gigs. 2x2 gig sticks. Am I just reading something wrong or can one stick be bad and the system still boot to the BIOS?
I need to get this done today since the weekends are the most time I have for something like this.
Thanks.
1. In the BIOS under "Storage Configuration" it asks "Configure SATA as" IDE, RAID or AHCI. I will be running two disk drives, a 160 gig primarily for the OS and a 1tb for everything else. I want these two drives to be independent so I'm pretty sure RAID is not for me. I don't really know much about IDE or AHCI but IDE seems to be an older setup. I'm thinking AHCI even though I'm not sure what it means or does? Then if I select AHCI and go to "AHCI Configuration" it's finding all SATA Ports as "Not Detected". I guess that's normal since I really have nothing hooked up at this point?
2. Also under "System Information", it says "System Memory Usable Size 2040MB even though I've installed 4 gigs. 2x2 gig sticks. Am I just reading something wrong or can one stick be bad and the system still boot to the BIOS?
I need to get this done today since the weekends are the most time I have for something like this.
Thanks.