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    G50v Possible to install enhanced SATA after XP ?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by stouf, Feb 8, 2009.

  1. stouf

    stouf Notebook Consultant

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    Hi !

    The title says everything...

    I installed XP (an unnattended one), and wasn't able to slipstream it.

    So is there a way to install enhanced SATA now that XP is installed ?
    I tried setting it in the bios and then going to safe mode, but I got a BSOD before the safe mode.
    If I want my system to boot, I have to set it to compatibility mode...
     
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    Yeah, get the AHCI driver and manually install it, just go to device manager, disk drive controllers, your drive controllers should show up as generic IDE controllers, open them up and use the "have disk" method to manually install the AHCI version of the driver on both of them, then reboot and change to AHCI mode.
     
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    Nice, many thanks Big Mike, it worked like you said :)
    I don't notice an improvement, but device manager reports AHCI sata controller instaed of the IDE ones, so I assume it's ok ;)
     
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    If it booted into XP all the way after you changed the SATA mode in the BIOS it definitely worked. The only differences really are that you now have NCQ working and hot swap (assuming you have an eSATA port).
     
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    What is NCQ ?
     
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    Native Command Queuing, essentially if the hard drive is asked to do 2-3 things at once instead of just doing them in the order that they show up it will check them to see what order will allow the shortest path around the disk to accomplish all of the operations. Kinda like routing a delivery truck. The benefits are kinda dubious though, some people find its better, some have even found that it's worse in some cases.
     
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    I seem to not be able to boot into Windows XP x64 using Enhanced Mode, even after following your suggestion of replacing all the IDE channels with the SATA driver (which then told me it was not for my device).

    I suffer the BSoD. Safe mode is useless either. If there is another methodology of doing this, I'm all ears.

    I also am using a G50V.
     
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    Hmm, XP x64 is a toughie for a lot of things, can you get into windows with the enhanced mode turned off? If so you might try again with different drivers, x64 is extremely picky about the drivers used, I assume you had an x64 specific driver? I haven't looked for one but they're different than the x86 ones for most hardware and x86 ones don't work.
     
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