Hi guys,
i recently purchased a 120gb ocz agiltiy 3 to replace my normal hd which was making screeching sounds!
i hadnt done much research and assumed an SSD would be compatible with my vaio. To cut a long story short i imaged the C drive/boot partition and the recovery drive with acronis. i installed the drive and placed the acronis backups onto the new ssd.
at the minute it boots up fine and will stay running for hours if i dont use it. if i open a web browser or any other program the laptop starts to slow after 5 mins or so up and eventually freezes altogether, leaving me with the only option to force a power off.
doing some research i have seen the recommendtion for bios is to set ahci instead of ide. my vaio's bios option are locked down so i cannot change this. my main query would be is this the most likely issue? is ahci mandatory or will the ssd run on ide?
i am willing to reinstall vista which is the OS on the recovery drive but if there is no point re the ahci option above i might just return the drive for a normal drive.
any help or suggestions appreciated
Regards
Brian
