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AHCI Windows XP driver for Studio 1737 ?
I've got XP installed on my new 1737, however I can't find an Intel Matrix Storage Manager package that will work. I've tried installing various Intel MSM packages, but they all come back with a message at the end "this computer does not meet the minimum requirements for installing the software" and it aborts. I would like to enable the SATA AHCI mode. I think the 1737 is an Intel "P45" chipset with an ICH9 controller ??
TheRealFireblad
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December 27th, 2008 05:00
Is there not an option in the BIOS to change to drive's 'operation mode' from ATA - AHCI... or vice-versa?
paule123
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December 27th, 2008 12:00
Yes, there is an option to switch modes, but if XP is installed in IDE mode and then the BIOS switched to AHCI, the system will BSOD on boot. I've slipstreamed the ICH9M/M-E drivers into an XP SP3 install CD using nLite, and while that completes the install and gets me a little farther, the system BSOD's on first boot. Installing the ICH9M/M-E drivers via the F6 floppy boot method also BSOD's. I'm starting to wonder if the Studio 1737 is so new (and it's A04 BIOS is dated 11/26/08) that there's something the existing Intel iaStor.sys driver doesn't understand.
paule123
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January 2nd, 2009 16:00
I finally figured out how to get the AHCI mode working in XP, unfortunately there was no performance improvement. HDTach registered the same throughput on the 320GB 5400rpm drive in standard IDE mode or in AHCI mode with the enhanced Intel drivers.
philiprademaker
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January 22nd, 2009 09:00
Hi can you please explain how you got it working? I am facing same issue.
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August 24th, 2009 08:00
Hi,
Can you please tell us how did you did to make your XP work on the dell studio 1737 with the AHCI mode ??