I have a ASUS P5 KPL/ EPU mainboard in a computer that is running a modified version of Windows XP SP3. It's BIOS is at the latest version (v404). I've recently only noticed that the HDD was set to transfer data at UDMA mode 5, despite the fact that the HDD is indeed a SATA HDD ( Western Digital Caviar Green WD5000 AADS). I'm unable to install the latest Intel Rapid Storage Technology drivers, as the installer keeps giving the Your computer does not meet the minimum requirements message. That happened, despite the fact that my mainboard does contain a supported chip ( An ICH7 chip). The driver that is currently installed was from ASUS ( Dated 05- Aug-09 lol.). Well, I'm still fine with living with old drivers ( Which I'm sure that anyone of us who is computer literate won't do) if that error was caused by OEM hardware. but what truly irritated me was this: Further checking revealed that the ICH7 SATA controller has been operating in IDE emulation mode, but my BIOS doesn't seem to have an option to switch between AHCI/ SATA and IDE modes. D: The Intel Chipset Identification utility reveals that the I/ O controller is Intel® 82801 GB/ GR I/ O controller hub ( ICH7/ ICH7 R) SATA Controller found in IDE mode. The device manager also shows the classic dual- IDE controller configuration like what my Pentium 3 had. instead of having only one entry under the HDD controller category like most of the other modern systems I've come across. When I mentioned the classic dual- IDE controller configuration, this was what I saw: Intel® ICH7 Family Ultra ATA Storage Controllers - 27 DFIntel® N10/ ICH7 Family Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27 C0 Primary IDE Channel Primary IDE Channel Secondary IDE Channel Secondary IDE Channel It's unusual, because there is only one ATA/ IDE port on my mainboard, and my optical drive is connected to it. The HDD appears to be connected under the first Primary IDE channel and the.
This package installs the Storage driver to enable the following SATA Storage Controller on the system board:- Intel 82801 GBM SATA AHCI Controller- Intel 82801 HEM/ HBM SATA AHCI Controller- Intel ICH9 M- E/ M SATA AHCI Controller- Intel ICH8 M- E/ ICH9 M- E/ M SATA RAID Controller Supported Think Pad systems:- Reserve Edition- R60, R60e, R60i, R61, R61e, R61i- R400, R500- T60, T60p, T61, T61p- T400, T400s 1 T500- W500, W700 1 W700ds 1)- X60, X60s, X60 Tablet, X61, X61s, X61 Tablet- X200, X200s, X200 Tablet 1 X300, X301- Z61e, Z61m, Z61p, Z61t Supported Operating Systems:- Windows 7 32-bit 1)- Windows Vista 32-bit- Windows XP Home Edition or Professional- Windows XP Tablet PC Edition 2005 Note:- *1: Think Pad W700, W700ds do not support the 32-bit version of Windows 7. - *1: Think Pad T400s multi-touch models and X200 Tablet do not support Windows 7 Home Basic edition.- This program is language independent and can be used with any language.
@ users with an Intel AHCI/ RAID system and an Intel SATA AHCI/ RAID Controller from ICH7 up, which is not supported by any or by the actual original Intel AHCI/ RAID drivers: The problems: Although the actual Intel AHCI and RAID drivers are running fine with nearly all Intel Southbridges from ICH7 R/ M up, the installation fails for systems with various Intel SATA AHCI/ RAID Controllers, because Intel didn't write the needed Hardware IDs into the related information file (with the suffix. INF). This is the reason why the latest Intel AHCI drivers cannot be installed onto AHCI systems with an ICH8 R, ICH8 M, ICH9 R or ICH10 R Southbridge and the Intel RAID drivers of the v11 and v12 series cannot be installed onto X79 RAID systems. Some manufacturers of computers, mainboards and notebooks wanted to save money and integrated instead of the fully functional Intel ICH8 R/ ICH8 M, ICH9 R/ ICH9 M or ICH10 R SATA Controller Chips the cheaper, but somehow castrated ICH8, ICH9 or ICH10 revisions. Although many of these systems without a letter behind the ICH do support the AHCI standard features and have a BIOS with the option to enable the AHCI mode, the owners are not able to get any original Intel AHCI driver installed or integrated into the Windows image. Obviously Intel doesn't want to support these low-priced AHCI Controller revisions. The solution To make the newest Intel AHCI and RAID drivers usable for nearly all owners of an AHCI or RAID capable Intel chipset system, I have customized the related INF files by adding the missing Hardware IDs. This modification doesn't affect the real AHCI or RAID driver named ia Stor.sys resp. ia Stor A.sys itself, but just the associated information files with the suffix. INF and for XP compatible drivers additionally the text file named TXTSETUP. OEM, which is absolutely needed for the XP installation onto any AHCI or RAID system. That is the reason why the.
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