Problems installing AHCI (IMSM) on Vista Ultimate 64bit

To preface my question, here is my setup.

t61p
1 gig turbo memory
4 gigs of ram
C: windows xp professional 32 bit
D: windows xp professional 64 bit
E: vista ultimate 64 bit
Hard Drive: 200 gig hitachi

As you may know, if you dump a new drive into your system and a clean install, the IMSM drivers won't install and the intel logic flash chip does not start in the services panel.

After some reading, I found out that the turbo memory won't work in compatibility mode. Thus, I tried to install the IMSM drivers through a variety of methods but they won't install and my system crashes if I try to boot into Vista with the bios set to AHCI.

I'm sure someone has figured this one out. I would really like to use my turbo memory as I have seen some perfomance differences with it enabled (using the original 32 bit vista ultimate hard drive.

Thanks in advance

 

First off, the turbo memory is no good. Well actually, its good, but serves absolutely no purpose on 4Gb ram running 64 bit. Sorry to break this one to ya...but true.

With respect to the AHCI drivers, there are a few methods. Since you are already BSODing, you can do a cold boot and install the Intel Matrix Storage Manager (AHCI drivers). This works fine.

If you want to reinstall, you can also click on repair when booting from disk and then install drivers. Dont forget to install the disk with the above driver.

On some systems, you have to go into BIOS and change AHCI to ATA mode for it to work, then install the drivers, then switch back.

I hope this works. We are using different systems but similar in that we are both running Ultimate 64bit with 4Gb ram.

 

Thanks for the reply.

I've tried to switch to compatibility mode to install the drivers as you had mentioned but they still won't install.

I am going to try to install the drivers from scratch (reinstall the OS). I read someone said they had more luck doing it that way. Unfortunately, I nuked the OS before I downloaded the drivers from Intel. (Lenovo only has the 32 bit drivers). I tried to download the drivers on this system (xp), but it won't let me do the setup in order to extract the files because it says the system is incompatible.

If anyone else has some additional advice before I proceed, please let me know.

 

Can anyone that has 64 bit vista installed email me the drivers?

As mentioned earlier, I nuked my partition and the intel 64 bit drivers won't let me expand the package because this computer is 32 bit xp.

Thanks in advance.

 

I should say, expanded drivers from the exe package from intel zipped up.

In case you are wondering why I don't grab the floppies, it's because I don't have a floppy drive and am using a flash drive to install the drivers.

 

Turns out that the driver from intel won't work.

I am going to get a floppy and I found the 64 bit driver under the x61's even though they are missing under the t61/Ps.

Anyone have any luck getting the combination working that I am trying?　
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