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Question .... SATA hard drives, IDE emulation mode vs. AHCI mode
Ok, I have a Gigabyte GA-ex58-UDR3 motherboard, but actually I think
that this question is pretty generic and would apply to almost any modern motherboard. I have a SATA hard drive, connected to a SATA port of the Intel ICH10R chipset [actually, I have two SATA hard drives, and two SATA optical drives]. The motherboard has a "Gigabyte" IDE/SATA controller on it (which is actually a JMicron device, which Asus also uses on some motherboards) to provide an IDE port (and additional SATA ports) but since I have no IDE devices, that device is disabled entirely in the BIOS. So it's not part of the question or issue. Here is the question: The BIOS has two settings for the modes of the SATA ports (in the Intel ICH10R): SATA RAID/AHCI Mode (choices are Disabled/Raid/AHCI; set to disabled) SATA Port 0-3 Native Mode (choice are native/legacy, set to native) And the system works fine. But it's using "IDE Emulation" to access the hard drive. So I set the SATA RAID/AHIC Mode to AHCI .... and the system won't boot. It crashes during bootup, which causes a loop of continuous resets. FWIW, I was pretty sure (certain, really) that when I installed this system (Windows XP SP3, by the way), I used an F6 floppy driver to setup the system. So the question: I'd really like the SATA ports operating in AHCI mode. How do I get there WITHOUT doing a total reinstall of Windows? I thought I had the necessary SATA driver installed (via the F6 driver I installed when I first configured the system), but apparently not. So, again: What do I do to convert the system from accessing the SATA hard drives via IDE emulation to accessing then in native SATA AHCI mode, again, without having to reinstall Windows. ??? |
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