I have a Dell OPTIPLEX 755 PC at work. It has the latest BIOS is in (A20 I think). It has a Crucial M225 SSD which is used for the OS and other programs. Currently it has firmware 1916.

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AHCI BIOS not installed, blue screen issues and. Found and that AHCI BIOS is not installed. Dell configured your machine, the 'AHCI BIOS not. Aug 11, 2010 DELL PC crashed -- AHCI BIOS not installed. Forums / Computers /. The Dell flash screen appears and then the miessage AHCI BIOS not.

I'd like to flash it up to the latest firmware (2030). For this, I need to be in IDE mode not AHCI. However, when I go into the BIOS and turn AHCI off, the BIOS then fails to recognize the HDDs in the boot priority section. When I try to boot from CD (an iso image of the 2030 firmware from Crucial) it doesn't recognize it and defaults back to the SSD and Windows starts. I've burnt the iso image using a CD-RW. Could this be the issue? Can you boot from a CD-RW or is there something about the formatting of this that prevents it?

Thanks in advance. Many SSD makers REQUIRE AHCI to update the firmware. Make sure you have the latest 755 Bios and it will have the ATA/AHCI options. Many SSD makers DO NOT ALLOW updating the firmware of the drive that you boot from. Thats why they make a Live Linux ISO to do this. Not All Firmware updaters work on all chipsets or all motherboards. I ended up buying a laptop that had 2 SATA ports in it to do my firmware updates.

Crucial uses USB Flash Linux install to do this. How to Upgrade Crucial SSD Firmware Like most SSD manufacturers, Crucial wants users to upgrade their via ISO burned to optical media. While this works fine for some users, not all have an optical drive available or media to burn files to. We break down both the traditional process for updating Crucial SSD firmware, along with an alternate option leveraging a bootable USB drive.

Ahci Bios Not Installed Xp

Using as an example, they released an ISO file users need to burn to optical media to update the drive's firmware. For some this is as simple as right clicking the media in Windows 7 opening with 'Windows Disc Image Burner' to write the media to a CD or DVD. After that is done you reboot your system, select the optical disk as the boot media and follow the prompts to update the firmware. If you are like most of the tech geeks these days, chances are you haven't had spare optical media sitting around your desk for a while. In this case you are still in luck, since the ISO file Crucial provides is Linux-based bootable media. To burn this to a USB stick, download and use the free software called.

Once loaded on your system, insert your USB stick (256MB or larger should be fine) and scroll all the way down the Linux Distribution list until you see the unlisted section. From here select the New Syslinux, select the drive letter for your USB media and click create. Once completed the USB stick is bootable just like the CD you would have burned. The process for updating the drive's firmware is the same as with the CD, but in this case select the USB drive when booting your system and follow the instructions for detecting and flashing the new software to your SSD. Thanks for your replies.

The iso image was burnt to the CD using the Windows 7 facility so I believe it is a correct copy. I've tried the F12 approach, but the CD/DVD drive is not recognised. I was under the impression that flashing firmware had to be done in IDE mode otherwise it will fail and I can't risk corrupting my HDD. I agree the instructions for the 2030 firmware don't mention this, but the instructions for the M4 SSD do and I've often read this advice in forums. I think I'll write a query for the Crucial SSD forums and see if there is any further advice RE: IDE vs AHCI. Thanks again.