dv5000t and Seagate SATA NCQ - disabled?

Bought a dv5250ca from the Geeks for around $800.

1.83 Core Duo, 2GB, etc. running the OEM XP Home OS.

With a Seagate 120gb (ST9120821AS) SATA drive that according to their site is NCQ enabled.

Except the Intel Matrix Storage Console (6.21) says it's not.

Anybody else experienced this?

Other experiences (It's my first HP Laptop, normally I'm a Dell user):
It took me a little while to figure out that all the pre-loaded factory crap was waaaaay out of date (like over a year) -HP updater kept pointing to a webpage that wasn't there). So after I went to HP's site and downloaded everything individually and then updated sequentially things started to pop in place. One issue was the HP updater trying to get me to download the latest bios for the AMD version of the dv5000z (F53 instead of F22A) when I have the Intel version. So for the first 5 days of ownership I found new things to update and configure. The last one was the SATA drivers, which I didn't realize didn't come factory pre-configured. So last night I DL'd and installed those. It is coming up as a SATA controller and it's been enabled in the bios, but again, this Seagate drive model is supposed to be NCQ capable. And the Matrix console says it isn't.

I'm not a noob. I configure new machines and build images as part of my job. But I've never owned an HP laptop before, so I thought I'd ask. I can say that Dell does a hell of a lot better at prepping preinstalled images for new machines than HP does. I'm glad one of my relatives didn't get one of these machines. They would have given up by now trying to get it to update, etc. What a mess. I hope the newer dv6000's and 9000's run properly right out of the box!

TIA

Schmagagled