On Jan 7, 2008 3:34 AM, Renat Golubchyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at > > BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to > > get back to gaming so we tried to boot back into Windows but XP goes > > blue screen at the first disk access with AHCI enabled. > > Windows versions prior to Windows Server 2003 do not support AHCI: > http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/serialATA_FAQ.mspx > > You have to install SATA drivers of the mainboard manufacturer in order > to enable it. For the ASUS P5E board you can download the Intel Matrix > Storage driver from ASUS support site. After installing the driver you > can enable AHCI in BIOS. > > > Cheers, > Renat >
Renat, Thanks very much for posting this information. Once installed does Win XP switch over to the new AHCI driver automatically and if I go back to IDE emulation in the BIOS does XP switch back automatically? Cheers, Mark -- [email protected] mailing list
