[Dell Latitude D630, Precision M4300 laptop SATA-2 unlock]

[SPC76]

Hello guys,

First of all I would like to say I'm totally new here (I accidentally found this forum through Google) and I'm not very familiar to the customs here on this forum so if I do or say something stupid please forgive me. Secondly, I'm from Amsterdam, the Netherlands, therefor English is not my native language, so excuse me for my poor English

I have a Dell Precision M4300 mobile workstation and my girlfriend has a Dell Latitude D630 which both have an Intel Mobile 965 chipset (Santa Rosa). A couple of months ago I upgraded both laptop harddrives with an OCZ Vertex 2 120GB SSD.

Although the Intel Santa Rosa chipset supports SATA-2 with a thoughput of 300MB p/s, Dell have capped the SATA-2 port in the BIOS to SATA-1 (150MB p/s) to lower powerconsumption, which crippled the performance of my two Vertex 2 SSD´s The maximum read/write (285MB/275MB) speed of the SSD is roughly cut into half.

I have already contacted Dell support about this problem, but due tot the fact both laptops are considered end of life no further BIOS versions will be released (latest BIOS updates are from a year ago) to solve this problem.

Is there someone on this forum who can unlock the SATA-2 ports of both my laptops? Any help is much appreciated!!!

Best regards,
SPC