Amd A8 4500m Specs

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Karoline Oum

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Aug 3, 2024, 5:54:25 PM8/3/24

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I tried .. wuhaa plenty .. Catalyst Drivers from AMD, Chipset Drivers from Intel, Some "AMD System" drivers from the Microsoft Update Catalog. I set the SATA-Controller to Compatibility-Mode in the BIAS. All to no avail. Harddrive stays hidden.

The SSD drive seems supported by the laptop. It is of course a SATA iii drive and the BIOS supports SATA ii only. In the BIOS Setup Utility (Enter + F1) there is a status page showing the drive and how it supports ATA/ATAPI 4..7 and ATA8_ACS. All seems well there.

the specs of my laptop are in the pdf linked to from the original post. Please let me know if I am missing anything in particular from the webpage you sent, that is important to the issue of the SSD not being recognised in the windows installer. I got an A8-4500M, as written in the thread title, but it shouldn't matter anyhow.

Generally I do not give much about manufacturers "compatible hardware" lists. This is what standards are for. I believe the relevant information regarding hardware compatibility is that the laptop has an a70m chipset with a SATA II controller on it. The SSD is this one here: Intenso TOP SSD 256 GB schwarz, SATA 600, Bulk.

I am aware, that sometimes too modern hardware cannot interoperate with aged hardware, but generally a SATA III drive ought to be working on a SATA II controller - at least that is what the internet says: Difference between SATA I, SATA II and SATA III or Using a SATA III HDD in a SATA II motherboard Tom's Hardware Forum

yes, SATAIII is backwards compatible with SATAII. The SSD will just run at SATAII speeds instead of SATAIII speeds. but it seems like your laptop motherboard or BIOS doesn't recognize the SSD you installed.

wanted to let you know that you were right, it is indeed a compatibility thing. The local hardware shop tried different SSDs and eventually found some old 180GB SSD in the back of their store that works ok - but only when windows is preinstalled on the harddrive on some other computer beforehand.

Make sure you always have the latest BIOS and CHIPSET installed in your laptop from Lenovo Support. That should help with compatibility issues and always see if there is any firmware update either at Lenovo Support download page or the hardware's manufacturer's support site.