SATA Native (BIOS) Help

Ok, I kinda did something stupid that, in hindsight, if I'd caught myself I could've overcome this.

Not too long after I got this laptop (dv9230us), I decided to run XP on it because I wasn't happy with the performance of Vista at the time.

To install XP, I needed to turn off SATA Native support in BIOS (either that or slipstream the drivers from a floppy during install; I lacked a floppy drive and was lazy to boot, so I just turned it off).

Well, about a month ago I decided (because of the inspiration of the Clean Vista install thread) to reinstall Vista.

One thing I forgot to do though, which would be saving me a minor headache right now, was turn back on SATA Native during install.

Of course now, whenever I turn it on, I get a BSOD during boot and HAVE to turn it off just to get it to boot.

Any suggestions? Thanks for any help

 

you might wanna try this : a user over at HP´s forums described how he managed it :

he seems to have found out how to get native sata support after
installing windows. If this does work i don´t know, but his procedure was
something like this :
switching off native sata support before windows installation

- Download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager software from HP's website,
it is currently

- Run it, by default it will save some files to C:\swsetup\SPxxxxx before it
run setup and tells you that the software is not supported on your chipset

- Now open up a command prompt, go to C:\swsetup\SPxxxxx\ and run the
following command to extract the CAB files:

setup -A -P C:\swsetup\SPxxxxx\

- Accept the license agreement, it extracts some files. The files you're
interested in are now at C:\swsetup\SPxxxxx\Driver\ and include the following:

iaahci.cat
iaahci.inf
iastor.cat
iastor.inf
iastor.sys
TXTSSETUP.OEM

- Now go to Device Manager, under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers you should
see: Intel xxxxxxx Serial ATA Storage Controller

- Right-Click on that and select Update Driver
- Say no to connecting to Windows Update to search, hit Next
- Select Install fro a list or specific location (Advanced), hit Next
- Select "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install", hit Next
- Select Have Disk
- Browse to C:\swsetup\SPxxxx\Driver and highlight the iastor.inf file, hit Open
- Select OK
- Now you should have a list of controllers, choose the correct sata controller
- You'll get warned that installing the device driver is not recommended, click
Yes to continue installing
- Click Finish
- Click Yes to restart your computer

When your computer boots up, you need to hit F10 to enter the BIOS.
Change SATA Native Mode to Enabled, save changes and exit.

After you log into Windows, your computer will find the "new" hardware. Wait
until you get the popup message to restart your computer, say Yes to restart
one last time.

That's it.

thats how he managed to get the sata driver installed after windows installation, if this really works, i don´t know, but always worth a shot....

no guarantees !!!

 

I can try that. Make a restore point first, try installing it, and if it doesn't work, I can use my recovery disk to go back to that restore point.

I'll give it a shot, thanks for posting this!

EDIT: I tried what your guide said, but it never did extract the drivers from the setup. Mind you, I had to get the drivers from Intel's website, as I could not find them on HP's site except the ones for XP.

 

if you try it, please report back if this procedure works or not.

best

 

lol, I edited my post not but a minute after you posted yours

If I could find the drivers on HP's site, I could try those instead and see if I can get those to work.