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Vostro A860 AHCI Support or Bios Switch

Discussion in 'Dell Latitude, Vostro, and Precision' started by hashish16, Mar 3, 2010.

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    hashish16 Notebook Enthusiast

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    This laptop has an ICH8M SATA controller but I cannot enable AHCI mode in the BIOS because (I am assuming) it is locked out.

    Can someone confirm this, and if so is there a way to enable it? I read that some user enabled VT and AHCI mode in some Sony Vaio. Thanks!
     
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    jason1214 Notebook Evangelist

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    I don't have one on hand to know for sure, but AHCI would be under SATA operation in the BIOS. If it's not there, my assumption would be that it runs AHCI by default.

    On the VT note, make sure your processor supports it.

    Not all do and I think the ones that were offered in this system do not. Case in point, the best proc this was offered with was a T5670 and it does not: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=35163
     
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    hashish16 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I forgot I posted this, so I used my XP SP2 image that does not have the intel matrix ahci drivers slipstreamed. When I tried to slipstream it, it would not work. How could dell sell a computer without AHCI mode?
     
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