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akshayt
11-29-2006, 01:53 AM
Hi
I have a Seagate SATA NCQ 7200.7 160GB HDD. Is there any way to disable NCQ? MY Mobo is Asus A8N E and it shows no such option which states NCQ.
epion2985
11-29-2006, 02:16 AM
Curious as to why would you want to.
mtl_hed
11-29-2006, 05:27 PM
I would also ask why, there is no performance gain in all but the smallest single threaded applications.
But if you must, the option would be in the SATA controller bios, NOT the mobo's bios if this is a RAID controller.
If there is still no option to disable it, you can just disable AHCI as NCQ depends on it.
akshayt
11-29-2006, 08:36 PM
How do I disable AHCI?
How to access the SATA Contoller BIOS, I don't have RAID.
epion2985
11-29-2006, 09:12 PM
There really is no point. You loose much more then you gain in terms of performance. But do whatever you want.
akshayt
11-30-2006, 04:23 AM
Just tell me how to disable NCQ?
Device manager, nforce sata controller properties or something like that :)
akshayt
11-30-2006, 04:39 AM
Please be exact, I haven't been able to find a way to disable it.
AsAsIn8eR
11-30-2006, 11:20 PM
Ok here it is I took some screenshots and explained them, hope you find them usefull.Here you go:
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