Question about clean Vista install and AHCI drivers

I just got a studio 1737 and want to do a clean Vista 64 Home premium install.
I was going to follow Les's guide in the main dell forum but it seems media direct 4.0 will not allow me to boot from the cd.

So I want to boot from Vista and reformat and install the OS.

My question is I would assume I install the AHCI drivers after the format is that correct?

 

AHCI drivers are part of Vista , it`s Xp that does not have them.

 

Thanks

Funny They make a big point of installing it here.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=157838

 

If your bios supports AHCI and it is enabled you should not need AHCI drivers when installing Vista.

EDIT : Unless this is a DELL only problem.

I have installed Vista32 on a Toshiba and a Samsung from a blank HDD and have not had to use AHCI/SATA drivers.

 

Correct, and it's not a Dell issue. I've reinstalled Vista twice on this Studio notebook so far (32 and 64 bit versions), and never had to enable/disable/install AHCI drivers of any sort. Vista has those drivers natively; only XP requires you to install them.

 

While i reinstalled the os with no problems except I have 3 items in device manager that are not installed
Under other
ethernet controller
sm bus controller
other

Looked on the dell website for drivers for the ethernet control and nothing is listed under 64bit windows, what is sm bus controlelr?

 

Have you installed the chipset drivers

I think you have an Intel pm45 chipset with an ICH9 southbridge

Vista64 chipset drivers link below.

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&ProductID=816&DwnldID=16023&strOSs=150&OSFullName=Windows%20Vista*%2064&lang=eng

 

Thanks I found out it was the chipset drivers> Then I then installed the broadcom driver again and it worked. Only issue is the "other and that my usb seem is very slow. I' going to have to make sure the usb driver is installed correctly.

Funny I reformatted my e1705 with no issues and with the 1737 I'm struggling

Thanks for your help

 

If Vista has all your notebook drivers, then you can install without problems, but newer chipsets ect, require you to jump though a few hoops finding the drivers.

 

well I un-installed the USB drivers and re-booted and windows re-installed them.

USB is still way to slow.
I'm trying to transfer 25 gig of iTunes music from a portable HDD and it either fails to transfer or will take over 5 hrs according to the dialogue box. When it fails it starts to transfer I see the dialogue box and then it just disappears.
Weird

I tested the transfer on my 1705 and the dialogue box indicates about 70 minutes.

When I transfer one folder of music files it's pretty quick

I'm wondering if that "unknown" in device manager is my problem.

 

looks like the usb was slow because my portable drive that I had just backed up all my data on was failing. I won't even boot now.

Test a flash drive and moved about 1 gig off it in 30 secs

Got the machine reformatted only issue I have now is I formatted the 10gig recovery drive and it no longer show up in my computer.

 

is ur unknown driver called "bluetooth periphical" something?

 

Not sure how you would go about getting that back. I wiped my recovery partition when I installed Vista 64-bit, because I prefer to install from the disk anyway, and due to a series of misunderstandings with Dell customer support, I find myself with no less than 4 Vista recovery disks, so I'm in no shortage there.

Did you order your notebook with integrated Bluetooth support?

 

Thanks for all the help.

Got all up and running minus the 10 gigs of lost recovery drive disc space.

Lucky I had my old data on my 1705 and also on my home built pc so I was able to recover everything.

Since by portable lacie drive failed I got to buy a new 1TB externall HDD!