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On Jan 7, 2008 3:34 AM, Renat Golubchyk <ragermany@×××.net> wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 16:31:43 -0800 "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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> > OK, I took a few minutes away from his Half Life game to look at |
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> > BIOS. I found the AHCI option and enabled it. Of course he wanted to |
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> > get back to gaming so we tried to boot back into Windows but XP goes |
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> > blue screen at the first disk access with AHCI enabled. |
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> Windows versions prior to Windows Server 2003 do not support AHCI: |
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> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/device/storage/serialATA_FAQ.mspx |
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> You have to install SATA drivers of the mainboard manufacturer in order |
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> to enable it. For the ASUS P5E board you can download the Intel Matrix |
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> Storage driver from ASUS support site. After installing the driver you |
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> can enable AHCI in BIOS. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Renat |
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Renat, |
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Thanks very much for posting this information. |
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Once installed does Win XP switch over to the new AHCI driver |
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automatically and if I go back to IDE emulation in the BIOS does XP |
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switch back automatically? |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |
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