

Reverting to the Windows 7 Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller re-enables Windows update, terrific, but doesn't properly recognize devices attached to the controller. After searching I discovered that many other people have the same issue. However, after it is installed (either by installing Intel Matrix Storage Manager or by manually updating via device manager) for some very odd reason it completely disables Windows update! This is completely repeatable. I therefore correctly updated the default Windows 7 SATA driver with the correct driver for my motherboard SATA controller (as always, and from the Gigabyte website) and it works perfectly, as expected. But the Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller doesn't really behave as it should. The GSATA controller is disabled in the BIOS as I don't need it.

Windows 7 automatically installs "Standard AHCI 1.0 Serial ATA Controller" for the onboard Intel SATA controller.
#Intel standard ahci 1.0 serial ata controller driver update
Problem: Installing the Intel Matrix Storage Manager for the SATA controller functionality disables Windows Update in Windows 7 Never had any problems (trouble free for years) until I switched recently was persuaded to leave Windows XP and move to Windows 7. In fact I had a total of two drives attached (Port 0 and 1) and also two SATA DVDRWs connected (ports 2 and 3) to the Intel ICH9 SATA ports. UP until a few weeks ago I ran Windows XP from a Western Digital SATA drive attached to Port 0 on the onboard Intel SATA controller.
