loc[a]lhost Posted May 3, 2006 Share Posted May 3, 2006 Some of you might know that AHCI enables Native Command Queuing support and Hot Plugging for SATA drives. Unfortunately it can usually be enabled only when installing Windows, by using a floppy drive. Spported southbridges: ICH6R, ICH6M, ICH7R, ICH7DH, ICH7M Instructions: 1) Make sure AHCI is not enabled in your BIOS, otherwise this guide is pointless for you. 2) Back up your Windows folder and prepare a boot disk in case this guide fails! 3) Download 79im05ww.exe from http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss...ocid=MIGR-62909 4) Extract the file to C:\DRIVERS\WIN\SATA. 5) If you have the ICH7M southbridge, go to step 8. 5) Open C:\DRIVERS\WIN\SATA\PREPARE\IMSM_PRE.inf in Notepad. 6) Replace any instance of DEV_27C5 with the following, according to your southbridge: ICH6R - DEV_2652 ICH6M - DEV_2653 ICH7R - DEV_27C1 ICH7DH - DEV_27C1 ICH7M - DEV_27C5 7) Save the file and close Notepad. 8) Click Start, select Run. 9) In the Open field type C:\DRIVERS\WIN\SATA\PREPARE\INSTALL.CMD and click OK. 10) Restart your computer, and enable AHCI on in your BIOS Setup. 11) Start Windows XP or Windows 2000. The Found New Hardware wizard will start automatically. 12) If running Windows XP: 1. Click No, not this time then click Next. 2. Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), then click Next. 3. Select Search for the best driver in these locations. 4. Select Include this location in the search: and specify the path, C:\DRIVERS\WIN\SATA, and click Next. 13) If running Windows 2000: 1. Click Next. 2. Select Search for a suitable driver for my device (recommended), then click Next. 3. Select Specify a location, then click Next. 4. Specify the path, C:\DRIVERS\WIN\SATA, and click OK, then click Next. 14) Click Finish. 15) When the System Settings Change window appears, click Yes. The computer restarts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelsinho Posted May 4, 2006 Share Posted May 4, 2006 yep, very useful this info dude thanks for the good job (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mercury_rising Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 Confused here. I'm running a single SATA 250GB drive as my primary boot disk. (Well, I've partitioned it into two, but it's one physical drive.) Intel ICH7R southbridge. No RAID for me, as I've only got one drive, but what advantages will I get if I run my drive in AHCI mode rather than in IDE mode? Can this even be done - this IS the drive I'm booting from... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpha_omega Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 No RAID for me, as I've only got one drive, but what advantages will I get if I run my drive in AHCI mode rather than in IDE mode? You're running SATA devices in the mode they're supposed to be run in... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6785077276 Posted May 10, 2006 Share Posted May 10, 2006 This is really useful. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loc[a]lhost Posted May 12, 2006 Author Share Posted May 12, 2006 Confused here. I'm running a single SATA 250GB drive as my primary boot disk. (Well, I've partitioned it into two, but it's one physical drive.) Intel ICH7R southbridge. No RAID for me, as I've only got one drive, but what advantages will I get if I run my drive in AHCI mode rather than in IDE mode? Can this even be done - this IS the drive I'm booting from... As I said in the first post: AHCI enables Native Command Queuing support and Hot Plugging for SATA drives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MBBM Posted May 12, 2006 Share Posted May 12, 2006 :no: I am not able to set the BIOS in AHCI mode I use a Asus P5PL2 mobo with Intel ICH7DH southbridge I can see in BIOS that the SATA controller use IDE mode for my Seagate Barracuda disk It is a sata2 disk,and my mobo support sata2 up to 300Mb/s,so I would realy like the sata controllers to work in AHCI mode. When I enter BIOS,under IDE configuration,there is a line called:Configur SATA As..,but the only option is: Standard IDE.As a discription to this option it says:"When in AHCI/RAID mode,controller is forced to Native mode". Can anybody please tell me how to configur my SATA drive for best preformence? Is there a way to configur it to AHCI mode? I hope somebody has time to help me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room101 Posted July 15, 2006 Share Posted July 15, 2006 lhost' date='May 3 2006, 09:26' post='587471595']Some of you might know that AHCI enables Native Command Queuing support and Hot Plugging for SATA drives. Unfortunately it can usually be enabled only when installing Windows, by using a floppy drive. Can't you enable AHCI by just installing Intel's Matrix Storage Manager/Technology?: http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imsm/ http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/imst/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Room101 Posted July 16, 2006 Share Posted July 16, 2006 OK, nevermind. Now I finally found it in the Intel documenation that you can't install unless you enable BIOS functions before and/or during Windows installation. The support pages on their website made it sound like you just run the .exe installer and reboot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted July 19, 2006 Share Posted July 19, 2006 I can't figure out what southbridge I have. Just says ICH7 Family. Anyone know which setting I would use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xpgeek Posted July 22, 2006 Share Posted July 22, 2006 Nevermind. I ran the Intel Chipset Identification Utility, and it said ICH7DH SATA Controller found in AHCI mode, so its already in that mode, which I realized when I checked the BIOS too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathanael Posted September 2, 2006 Share Posted September 2, 2006 Tried this on XP x64 - blue screen when loading XP. Wen't back to native mode, works fine. I'll go AHCI on next reinstall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loc[a]lhost Posted September 2, 2006 Author Share Posted September 2, 2006 Of course, the driver I posted is for 32-bit Windows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexandrus Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 Any way of making AHCI work on ICH8R based chipsets ? The driver is only for mobile chipsets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anarion Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Is it possible to do this for Asus P5B motherboard? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6785077276 Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 Download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager and it will install the ACHI driver. Just reboot and enable ACHI in the BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anarion Posted October 28, 2006 Share Posted October 28, 2006 I did that but it didn't work but I solved that problem by plug in my main hdd to Jmicron controller and then installing ahci driver manually. Ahci work really well now. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NINRocket Posted November 11, 2006 Share Posted November 11, 2006 I literally spent a DAY trying to get AHCI to work. I was trying to load WMCE and after pressing F6, loading the drivers, and watching Windows install....my PC would crash and reboot at the Loading Windows screen (the one you see right after post with the animated bar). I tried everything I could think of (believe me....that is a lot of stuff....I'm 39 and been building PC's since I was 12) THIS WORKED LIKE A CHAMP!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK YOU, THANK YOU, AND THANKS A HECK OF A LOT!!!!!! :D :) :laugh: :rofl: :woot: :yes: One note for anyone attempting this procedure. In step 6 the instructions say REPLACE. Notepad has a REPLACE feature. USE IT! It will keep you from making a typo like another poster did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimB. Posted December 7, 2006 Share Posted December 7, 2006 Any solution for an ICH8R southbridge? I'm stumped. TIA, Tim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottFern Posted January 10, 2007 Share Posted January 10, 2007 Sounds like us guys with the ICH8R are stuck with reformatting and then setting AHCI mode? When installing windows xp on a AHCI sata hard drive are any intel drivers required via floppy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zlatan Posted February 21, 2007 Share Posted February 21, 2007 hi to all! i'm Ruben from italy. I have a p5b deluxe and two 250gb sata2. I would like to know where to connect those hd. I know that there are difference between red and black connector. I would like to know also how to set sata on bios and which driver install. i have read of ahci but i don't understand very well what is it. thank you for your help and sorry for my bad english Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ropera Posted March 22, 2007 Share Posted March 22, 2007 Here is the solution (it worked fine for me) With the BIOS on IDE open Regedit and go to: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci\Start and change whatever you have on DWORD to '0' Raboot Reboot again, enter BIOS Change IDE to AHCI, Save Let the OS redetect your drives Reboot That's it, hope it helps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orion23 Posted July 4, 2007 Share Posted July 4, 2007 Any news regarding this guide but with the ICH9 chipset? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Labtec Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Any news regarding this guide but with the ICH9 chipset? I have the P35 chipset w/ ICH9 (Gigabyte P35-DS3R)... with an existing Vista installation I did this: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci\Start and change whatever you have on DWORD to '0' (default value was 4) like Ropera mentioned, I installed the Intel Matrix Program/Drivers, rebooted went into Bios... changed from RAID/IDE to AHCI save and everything went fine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabricioGS Posted September 22, 2007 Share Posted September 22, 2007 I used that method originally on my Asus P5W DH Deluxe for both Windows XP 32 bits and Vista 32 bits but now I have a double problem: Now I have a Asus P5K Deluxe with ICH9 and I'm with both Windows XP and Vista x64 edition. So instead of this drivers version on the firts post (http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-62909), I'll have to get another one right? I have the P35 chipset w/ ICH9 (Gigabyte P35-DS3R)... with an existing Vista installation I did this:HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\msahci\Start and change whatever you have on DWORD to '0' (default value was 4) like Ropera mentioned, I installed the Intel Matrix Program/Drivers, rebooted went into Bios... changed from RAID/IDE to AHCI save and everything went fine... Can you post a print screen of all DWORD keys you have under \Start forlder? Inside mine HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\ it doesn't even have a \msahci or \msahci\Start forlders, I'm confused :wacko: Please help me, I'm desperate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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