Windows Xp Professional Sp3 Drivers Sata Ahci
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Okay.so I'll be reformatting my computer once UPS delivers, which I'll be using to back up all of my important data. In the meantime, I'm getting everything ready so that when the time comes all I have to do is throw in the slipstream disk to install XP w/SP3 and copy over the old data. In order to prepare for this, I've been on the lookout for everything that I want/need to have installed to make the reformat as painless as possible. I've already setup the user accounts in nLite that I want to keep, all of the registry tweaks, etc. However, I am having a hard time finding the SATA/AHCI drivers. I know that SP3 will recognize my hard drives without manually installing drivers, but will AHCI (hot swapping, etc.) be supported?
Because I'm not too sure about this, I thought that it wouldn't hurt to include the drivers on the slipstream disk just in case. My motherboard is an with an Intel C2D E6600, a and a. Any idea on where I can find the drivers?
My hardware is a few years old, so the info is either not on the manufacturers sites, or it's buried deep down. Okay, so I included those drivers when I slipstreamed SP3, and now I can't get AHCI to work. Instead, my hard drives are showing up as IDE when the computer boots. If I set the AHCI mode to compatible or disabled, the computer will boot fine, but again will show up as IDE drives. If I set the AHCI mode to AHCI, my computer will get to the Windows XP screen with the loading status bar, but it then quickly reboots. Also, I can't get my new external hard drive to work with eSATA. Firewire and USB is working fine, but I'll be damned if I know why eSATA won't work.
This is really frustrating, and I could really use some help. =Edit= Forgot to mention that with the right settings, the external hard drive will show up in the BIOS settings (I forget where), but I am unable to boot as you know. So I know that the eSATA cable is good, just that there's a problem in general with getting all SATA functionality to work properly. Well, I think I figured it out. If the JMicron controller is set to AHCI (or even RAID) the drive won't show up.
But if it's set to IDE, it works just fine. So one of two things is going on: • eSATA isn't working as intended, OR • I misunderstood how the eSATA connection works. Chances are that #2 is the correct answer. I assumed that an eSATA drive would work just like a regular SATA drive and automatically show up, but I guess that's not the case. I'd actually bet on #1 personally. My JMicron controllers are good at what they do, and very useful to have around, but a bit limited and fiddly if they're not set 100% the way they want to be. I've relegated my SATA and PATA Liteon burners to my JMB363 and left it set to IDE mode.
My disks are filling all the ports on the ICH9R and running AHCI. I got morphine to try AHCI sorta on a dare, and he likes it as well. NCQ isn't good for single tasks, but it does make a multiple-I/O machine far smoother. Anyways, I got off topic. I'm guessing your eSATA port is hardwired to the JMicron? How badly do you need it to be removable? Is it mostly bulk storage (bulk storage would be hurt least by the loss of AHCI/NCQ)?
Also, I apologize for missing the last few replies to this. It wasn't horribly wonderful of me to help you out with getting the drivers and then miss your troubleshooting that followed. It's not a problem Forge. It's not that I needed the drives to be hot-swappable and everything else that comes with AHCI, it was just bugging me that it wasn't working.
At first, my main reason for concern was to make sure that all of my hard drives, not just the external, would be operating at their maximum supported speed via SATA. When I saw that things were running in IDE mode, it had me worried that I wasn't getting what I paid for. It would be similar to a USB 2.0 port only running at 1.1 speeds. Yeah it works, but not as good as it's supposed to.
It's not a problem Forge. It's not that I needed the drives to be hot-swappable and everything else that comes with AHCI, it was just bugging me that it wasn't working. At first, my main reason for concern was to make sure that all of my hard drives, not just the external, would be operating at their maximum supported speed via SATA. When I saw that things were running in IDE mode, it had me worried that I wasn't getting what I paid for.