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Although it is easy, it still takes a long time and it may not be worth the time.ĪHCI is not without its advantages.
#Standard ahci 1.o serial ata controller driver install#
The easiest and most straightforward way of switching to AHCI is to do a fresh install of your operating system.
#Standard ahci 1.o serial ata controller driver drivers#
If you already have a Windows installation with ATA selected, it is a bit difficult to switch to AHCI as your system may not have the correct drivers installed, leading to a blue screen of death. This is meant to improve compatibility with older devices that have SATA controllers but cannot implement AHCI. Even when using SATA, users still have the option whether to use AHCI or the older PATA implementation. It is only possible to use AHCI with SATA enabled motherboards and hard drives. It defines how information is passed between the storage device and the host.Īs AHCI is relatively new, it is not compatible with the older ATA. On the other hand, AHCI (Advanced Host Controller Interface) is a host controller interface that was designed for SATA. There are two types of ATA, the first is Parallel ATA (PATA) and the second is Serial ATA (SATA) although the use of ATA often refers to the former as ATA and PATA are synonymous prior to the advent of SATA. Because ATA is very old, it has been improved a few times. At the bottom of this page there is a link for Support, and from there a link to Contact Support.ATA (AT Attachment) is a standard that has been around for quite some time and was originally designed to create an interface between storage devices like hard drives and the CPU. The page was down when I attempted to get the link for you.

Intel's support is not formally provided in this user forum. It is an older version, but will likely work better with XP and your board.
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I was able to find the Intel AHCI/RAID driver for XP 64 bit on your boards download page very easily: The one I posted is a little older, but I know it works with P67 chipsets. The link to the Intel driver you posted is just the latest version of the IRST driver. Hot plugging should be enabled by default, but I doubt you would trust it without an explicit setting. The potential problem is, will your BIOS have a hot plug setting for each drive in the BIOS. That switch suggests or requires its use with AHCI mode so the drives it controls can be set for "hot plugging", which allows a drive to be powered on or off while the OS is running, without losing data or damaging the drive. I was thinking to use the first driver of the list (because OS independant), but the fear of creating a totall loss is awfull. I ordered one in the US and in the meantime I try to arrange my XP disk also with AHCI.Īlthough I am really not sure, that the hardware needs it.Īlso I found an Intel list, but another one as yours. As far as my understanding of this, it will need to work with all HD's in AHCI. This is a small powerswitch unit for 4 HD's.
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Orico Floppy Drive Slot 4 Groups SATA / SSD HDD Power Switch Control - Free Shipping - DealExtreme The reason to start with the whole AHCI is somewhere else: So now, everytime I need XP, I modify the BIOS and start again with IDE for XP. Recently I managed the W7 disk and have a two good Acronis images from it. As I strive to always improve things I had liked to change the whole system to this. The Bios of the system allows to change everything to AHCI. In IDE format I can use both systems, only change bootsequence with F11. I have an extra HD with XP, only for occasionly work with Autocad. I use to work about two years with W7 with great satisfaction. That makes the decision to start, harder. Surely because nor MSI, nor Intel is giving any real response to my requests for a straight answer.
