Motherboard PCB Wash Tips Using Safe and True Water

Washing the PCB motherboard using water - maybe a little awkward if we hear the words of washing PCB computer motherboards or other electronic goods PCBs such as HP PCBs, TVs and others, because electronic goods if exposed to water are even damaged, just an example if our favorite smartphone falls into Water, surely we will rush to take it from being damaged. But if we wash the PCB using water well and correctly will certainly provide benefits, especially to clean the dust that is on the PCB. There are many examples and experiences when washing PCB motherboards and other electronic goods make damage or constraints from the PCB we wash to be resolved. Kitchen washing clothing because it did not leave the detergent stain. Clean water. Smooth or new brush tooth. Small size paint brush. Hair dryer (if you have). Synthetic fiber lap. After all the required tools have been prepared, it is time to enter the washing process stage. Here's a full explanation of the motherboard washing proces...

What does AHCI Mode, IDE Mode, RAID Mode, & SATA Mean in the BIOS settings

 AHCI - Advanced Host Controller Interface - this is a hardware mechanism that allows the software to communicate with Serial ATA (SATA) devices. It offers features such as hot-plugging and native command queuing (NCQ).


IDE - Integrated Drive Electronics - IDE is basically the "old" version of AHCI without hot-plugging and NCQ. (This is usually used during the Parallel ATA (PATA) era hard disks)


Now. AHCI mode and IDE mode -- what is it? IDE mode is to give you the greatest compatibility with older operating systems. While AHCI is as I mentioned above, modern version of the IDE -- use AHCI mode if you are running recent operating systems  (Windows Vista+ and Linux kernel from 2.6.19+). IDE mode will allow you to connect older operating systems to SATA drives.


As I mentioned above, SATA is Serial ATA, and is the replacement for Parallel ATA (PATA) hard drives.


RAID - This is a storage technology where you combine multiple disks into a "single" unit, depending on the mode, there can be RAID-0 through RAID-6, and each with different configurations of the hard drive. I'll just explain the simple examples: RAID-0 which is striping but no parity or mirroring, this means there is no redundancy for data, If there is a failure on one disk, it will cause the data loss of the entire RAID array. Ex: You have 0110 as data to be written, 01 will go on Disk 1, and 10 will go on Disk 2, allowing for faster read/write access to the data.


RAID-1 - This is the opposite of RAID-0, which is mirroring without striping (no parity either). This basically means you have an exact clone of Disk 1 on Disk 2, in case Disk 1 fails.


RAID0+1 does both what RAID 1 and 0 does, that is to say striping (writing data simultaneously to two [or more] drives. plus mirroring in case of failure) the minimum amount of drives required for this type of setup is 4 IDENTICAL drives.


There are also RAID 2, 3, 4, 5 ,6. Which is just more implementation of different configurations of striping/parity/mirroring across drives.


That being said, your RAID mode will allow you for some type of RAID configuration, should you choose to do so.


Supplemental: Many SATA controllers can enable AHCI separately or in conjunction with RAID support. Intel recommends choosing RAID mode on their motherboards, which also enables AHCI, rather than AHCI/SATA mode for maximum flexibility (in case you ever want to build a RAID array), since there are some issues that occurs, usually BSOD, when you choose a different mode once an operating system has already been installed.



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