Erik August 9, 2014 at 5:07 am
Actually, this is the incorrect setting for your issue! (That setting only affects purely PCI Express devices, such as Graphics Cards) It is actually the "AHCI Link Power Management – HIPM/DIPM" Power Options setting which is changed from HIPM (Balanced) to Active (High Performance). This setting, by default, is HIDDEN inside of the advanced power settings menu. In order to expose it (as well as transition time setting from "Partial" hard disk state to "Slumber" hard disk state; "AHCI Link Power Management – Adaptive"), you must go inside the registry to both:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPowerPowerSettings012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442b2d69d7-a2a1-449c-9680-f91c70521c60 and change the "Attributes" key value from 1 (default; hidden) to 2 (exposed). [This will expose "AHCI Link Power Management – HIPM/DIPM" under Hard Disk power settings] HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlPowerPowerSettings012ee47-9041-4b5d-9b77-535fba8b1442dab60367-53fe-4f