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July 20th, 2010 13:00
How install XP on DELL XPS Studio 1640 with AHCI Support the EASY WAY
Just figured this out after 3 hours of trying out different options, this will work on most laptops with PM45 chipsets and the same ATA/ATAPI controllers :
1. Download f6flpy3288 from the Intel site and extract to a folder
2. Set bios from AHCI to ATA and install XP (XP CD must have sata drivers slipstreamed prior the install, I use nLite for that and it works just perfect)
3. Right click on my computer, open properties, hardware & device manger find- IDE ATA /ATAPI controllers expand and the first drive should be INTEL (R) ICH9M/M-E 2 port serial ATA storage controller 1-2928.
4. Right click and choose update driver, ignore hardware wizard and tag install from a list or specific location. Tag Don,t search. I will choose the driver to install and click next. Click on HAVE DISK and browse to your folder f6flpy3288 containing the SATA-AHCI extracted drivers and click on IaStor, a list will then appear, scroll down until you located Intel (R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI controller, highlight it and click next, you will get a update driver warning, click yes.
5. Restart your computer making sure you reset the bios back to AHCI save and exit
Mikka366
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January 20th, 2015 06:00
Hey, this is great! It didn't come up in my initial searches because you didn't say what the symptoms were. It was only that someone on the overclockers site mentioned the AHCI drivers were out of date that I started looking for AHCI problems.
My computer (Studio XPS 1640) was booting really slow after I upgraded the original 128GB SSD to a Samsung 840 PRO SSD (also same problem with an 830 EVO I tried too). The boot times varied a lot - sometimes good around 30 seconds (Windows Vista 32 bit), sometimes 90 seconds, sometimes four and a half minutes!
The SSD appeared idle during large chunks of time during the slow boots, as if there were a varying number of timeouts occurring, but I couldn't see anything in any logs to confirm this. I even ran a boot trace that the Windows Automated Installation Kit allows you to do, but all it ever showed was that the $BitMap file (part of the MFT) was taking forever to load. After upgrading the driver as you suggested, the boots all became of the 30 second variety!
So THANKS!