I have an Intel DG33TLM motherboard in my file server. I installed Windows 2003 on it. In order to get Windows to install, I changed the SATA controller to IDE mode. This allowed me to make use of the ...

Setting up an SSD isn't hard, or at least it shouldn't be. Depending on whether you have a SATA drive, your SSD's storage controller would be in AHCI mode; for M.2 drives, it would be NVMe. However, ...

You're probably wondering why anyone would change their SATA mode. It started the way a lot of bad tech decisions happen late at night, scrolling through TikTok, half-paying attention, when a tech ...

Once the processor is running and memory has been initialized, timers and devices must be started up and a memory map laid out. Only then, can the OS be loaded. In the first part of this article, I ...

Serial ATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment or SATA) is a command and transport protocol that defines how data is transferred between a computer's motherboard and mass storage devices, such as ...