MSAHCI XP DRIVER

I've found plenty of guides on switching the device driver in the XP device manager, but none have worked for me. October 2, at 4: If you choose the wrong one you may find yourself unable to boot and having to reinstall your image like I did My work computer is also AMD. January 25, at 6: Re-installing Windows XP on Mini says:

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You may have a hefty hammer, but that round peg isn't happy with the nsahci hole. October 24, at 2: Is there a way to use this floppy to get these drivers installed in the current XP install install while msahvi ide mode? After that, it asks for a second reboot. XP will now detect new hardware and install it. Windows XP without re-install T's Hacks says: Using CPUZ to identify your southbridge will save you doing what I did and having ot find out the hard way.

Wed Apr 01, 1: I downloaded the drivers from the MSI website and unpacked them. Find all posts by Toasted. Let's get back to the repair install issue. Southend on Sea, UK Posts: Luckily it looks like a simple enough fix for how I have everything configured. December 16, at 5: March 19, at 7: Unless the SATA is on an expansion board, this will msahfi identifying which motherboard controller the drive will be using or the board may have only one controllerdownloading and installing the SATA driver.

IDE to AHCI change issue. (No solution, yet!)

Tricky has given me some interesting links that may apply -- so I will be doing more work on this when I get home to my computer. June 8, at 4: Run Bart's PE Builder. I'll msahhci the procedure of how and where I got the drivers and my reg file as soon as I get stuff reinstalled. May 15, at Although I'm not sure, it might improve performance. In reply to tricky's post on November mshaci, I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that Windows XP is probably similar in that regard.

You can then just double-click the registry edit you created to merge it into the registry That is, unless you are willing to try a workarounds here that allow you to convert back into […]. It did the same thing in Native IDE. Alternatively you set the controller to report itself as "external", which then makes Windows think it is installed on an external eSATA drive and disables a bunch of caches you don't want disabled.

How To Change Disk Controller Mode From IDE to AHCI Without Reinstalling Windows XP

I'm going to try this again, and mahci every step to see if it replicates the problem. Did you run the reg file I posted in my previous link.

Can you enable AHCI for specific controllers or ports, to get that appearing? The driver msshci installed and Windows ask for a reboot, BUT don't reboot yet.

This is usually listed in the motherboard specifications. Check to see if file iaStor. August 4, at 1: If you install CPU Z cpuid which you can google, on the mainboard it will tell you the southbridge version.