How To Enable AHCI ?

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I am having XP-Vista Dual-Booted. XP is installed on IDE drive and Vista on SATA drive. Now, when i set JMicron Controller Mode to AHCI from BASIC, Vista boots but XP shows BSoD. Anyway, to get XP working on AHCI.

NOTE: I am having ASUS P5B-VM(ICH8) as you can see in my signature. And no floppy drive(should i buy one?).
 
I am running XP SP2.

And I am running XP on IDE, so why SATA drivers are required or should i install my XP on SATA?

And which SATA drivers are required and from where can i get them?
 
ahci is better

it has ncq support built in.(i dunno bout raid mode)

raid is not required unless u are using multiple hd's in raid config.

xp doesn't have native raid driver.

so u need guide specifically for ur mobo chipset to convert vista to ahci.

else best option for xp would be a fresh install on ahci mode with a ready floppy and F6 install
 
188007 said:
I am running XP SP2.

And I am running XP on IDE, so why SATA drivers are required or should i install my XP on SATA?

And which SATA drivers are required and from where can i get them?
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IIRC , IDE port in recent boards are implemented through the JMicron controller. For eg. in my board 2 sata ports+ IDE ports are controlled by JMicron. Rest are controlled by ICH9. Please correct me if am wrong :).
 
You will need to set the mode as IDE, then force install the drivers by updating them in Device Manager. Reboot and set the mode to AHCI/RAID and boot into Windows. This should work. It worked for my Abit IP35-Pro.

You will need to install the drivers for the controller and not the HDDs. The exact driver can be obtained by unzipping the driver package.
 
vNerd said:
You will need to set the mode as IDE, then force install the drivers by updating them in Device Manager. Reboot and set the mode to AHCI/RAID and boot into Windows. This should work. It worked for my Abit IP35-Pro.

You will need to install the drivers for the controller and not the HDDs. The exact driver can be obtained by unzipping the driver package.
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How to set the mode to IDE? There is no such option in my BIOS i think.

And plz give me the drivers which are required.
 
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