After turning on NCQ, after using it for about a few minutes, the computer freezes

The problem is complex, and compatibility, driver, and firmware are ......can cause problems.

The basic guiding ideology of locating the problem should be: divide and conquer——— only use the latest model of hard drive to test, and disconnect the others first.

In addition, it is recommended to use the official driver and follow the method of setting it up.

It's a compatibility issue, and it's been determined that !!

Personally, I feel like it's a compatibility issue.

You can't see the luck here, you have to go into the BIOS to see.

First of all, NCQ is a technology supported by AHCI (Advanced Master Interface), and turning on AHCI is the first step. AHCI is one of the advanced features of SATA2, and motherboards that support SATA do not necessarily support AHCI. Only the presence of the AHCI option in the motherboard's BIOS indicates that the motherboard can support NCQ.

Go to the motherboard BIOS, find "Integrated Peripherals" and "Onchip Serial ATA Device", and see if there is an "AHCI" option here.

BIOS settings.

The following describes the BIOS settings related to NCQ using a motherboard with an Intel ICH6-R south bridge as an example. In the SATA working mode options of the BIOS, there is an additional AHCI option in addition to RAID and IDE. As we all know, the IDE mode refers to quietly making SATA hard disks work in ordinary IDE mode, which is usually used for a single SATA hard disk, while RAID mode is to manage SATA hard disks through RAID controllers, which is suitable for establishing SATA RAID.

The new AHCI mode uses the AHCI controller to manage SATA hard drives.

In the BIOS selection of some motherboards, SATA working mode and AHCI function are two options, and when SATA mode is set to RAID, AHCI is automatically in "Supported"; When SATA mode is set to IDE, AHCI can select "Supported" or "Not Supported", and there are three possible options for the two settings.

To support the NCQ feature, the "SATA Mode" in the BIOS should be set to "AHCI".

In fact, the relationship between the AHCI and SATA models is not complicated. When the SATA RAID controller is enabled, the AHCI takes effect at the same time. If SATA RAID is not used, AHci can be set to off (i.e. normal IDE mode) or on (AHCI is enabled alone). In any case, NCQ can only be supported if AHCI is set to on.

That premise is that you have SATA driver installed, otherwise it may be blue screen when turned on.