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September 26th, 2008 20:00
Reinstalling Vista AHCI Drivers
Inspiron 1720 and Vista Home Premium.
When I went to format Vista I followed Dell's instructions and disabled the AHCI & the Flash Cache Module.
I downloaded the drivers from the Intel Matrix Storage Driver, R154200.
Then I extracted the following drivers:
iaahci
iaahci
iastor
iastor
iastor.sys
txtsetup
They were copied to both a USB flash drive & a CD.
My controller is:
Intel 82801 HBM SATA AHCI CONTROLLER MOBILE ICH8M.
When doing the reinstall I enabled the ACHI & Flash Cache Module & booted from the Vista DVD.
When prompted to load the drivers I inserted the USB drive, clicked ok and received a message that no drivers were found, same problem with the CD. There was no other data than the drivers on the USB or CD.
Sorry for being really detailed but I figured the more info. the better.
Can anyone help?
Thanks
ps: Dell told me my system was supposed to run on ATA, even though it came with ACHI enabled.
SlamX
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September 26th, 2008 22:00
Does Vista give you the option to point to where the drivers are...i.e. CDROM drive or other devce such as floppy drive? Memory sticks are not always seen as a source for the drivers.
You may need to put them on a usb floppy drive for them to be read.
louisxv
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September 27th, 2008 02:00
Vista seems to give the option of where the drivers are.
When "load drivers" is selected a drop down list of drives is shown.
eg: C drive, D etc. It recognizes the F drive(USB flash drive) & E drive (CD-ROM) where I also burned the drivers to.
The one thing it does not let me do is expand the drive from the list.
By that I mean that when I select a drive I can't click on it and display the contents
SlamX
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September 27th, 2008 14:00
louisxv
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September 27th, 2008 19:00
No, Vista can't find the drivers, I tried that but the install stops.
I have exit, change the bios back to ATA & disable the Flash Cache Module and install without ACHI enabled.
SlamX
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September 27th, 2008 20:00
Hmm that will work.
Using a usb floppy drive would probably get the drivers installed.
louisxv
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September 27th, 2008 20:00
SlamX
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September 27th, 2008 22:00
Well if you have the drivers on a CD make sure they are copied raw to the Cd and not place in any directory or sub directories then XP may read them on the CD.
My AHCI driver info specifically tells me to put them on floppy. but try this.
louisxv
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September 28th, 2008 03:00
I think that in XP you have to press F6 when loading drivers.
With Vista you get a message to load drivers and in my case I also copied them onto a CD raw - no directories etc.
It still can't recognize them.
SlamX
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September 28th, 2008 14:00
Very sorry was quite late when I replied and mis-spoke refering to XP.
Can you try to install the drivers in Vista then reboot and enable the sata fucntion? I have read of some doing it that way.
louisxv
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September 28th, 2008 20:00
Tried that and it won't work.
Maybe if I played with the registry?
SlamX
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September 28th, 2008 23:00