Never mind, I see you figured it out in a different thread. Your description though sounded just like the problems I had with AHCI. Anyway, good luck with it!
On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Tanner Lovelace <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 10:42 PM, Scott Miller <[email protected]> wrote: >> Assuming I can get my crashed workbench >> PC up and running again. I already bought a replacement, but I can't >> run the software I need under Vista, and I can't get the machine to load >> XP Pro. > > Are the hard drives in AHCI mode? I tried installing XP on a new machine a > few months back and couldn't get it to work at all until I went into the bios > and turned off AHCI mode. I heard later that apparently you can slip a driver > into the XP install media, but if that's the problem it's probably > just easier to > turn it off. > > -- > Tanner Lovelace > http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ > (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an > increscent, all sable. > -- Tanner Lovelace http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable.
