AHCI & XP
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PhilFrisbie
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Please explain more? Are you asking whether it is worth the trouble to load a AHCI driver for your SATA drive, or should you just set the BIOS to IDE mode?
For me, I just built an XP media PC based on a new AMD E-350 motherboard with a conventional SATA hard drive, and I just put the drive into IDE mode.
For me, I just built an XP media PC based on a new AMD E-350 motherboard with a conventional SATA hard drive, and I just put the drive into IDE mode.
I've been building computers for nearly 15 years and I don't remember seeing this abbreviation until recently but then there are so many "initials" these days that I may simply have missed it. Anyway there seems to be a lot of conversation lately so I associated it with W7. Recently I bought a SSD and research tells me that SSDs like ACHI so I tried setting my BIOS to ACHI and got a BSOD upon first boot. I set it back to IDE and all is well. Since I'm running XP that experience seemed to confirm that ACHI is only for W7 but I thought I'd better ask.
PhilFrisbie
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I GOOGLED "ACHI driver install on XP" and lifted this quote from a Toshiba website claiming to show how to do this:
"Many users would like to have Windows XP on their machine installed instead the preinstalled Windows Vista.
The problem is: when trying to install Windows XP on a newer machine with an "SATA AHCI controller", the harddisk would not be recognized.
The reason is: Windows XP has no SATA drivers included on the setup CD and the HDD would not be recognized from the installation wizard. "
My reading of this quote tells me that I already have such a driver installed because I have no problem with recognition of my HDDs when installing XP. Would you agree?
"Many users would like to have Windows XP on their machine installed instead the preinstalled Windows Vista.
The problem is: when trying to install Windows XP on a newer machine with an "SATA AHCI controller", the harddisk would not be recognized.
The reason is: Windows XP has no SATA drivers included on the setup CD and the HDD would not be recognized from the installation wizard. "
My reading of this quote tells me that I already have such a driver installed because I have no problem with recognition of my HDDs when installing XP. Would you agree?
PhilFrisbie
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