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setting to AHCI wont boot Vista

kureng

kureng

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System Specs
Processor AMD64 X2 5000 BE OCed 3.0Ghz
Motherboard MSI K9A2 CF A790X
Cooling CoolerMaster Gemin II
Memory 2GB Corsair XMS2 6400C4 DDR2 OCed 1000Mhz CL 4-4-4-13
Video Card(s) HIS ATI Radeon HD3870 ICEQ3 512MB GDDR4
Storage WD 500GB SATA2, Seagate 250GB SATA2, Seagate 160GB SATA2
Display(s) Viewsonic LCD 17inch
Case CoolerMaster RC-690
Audio Device(s) Realtek High Definition ALC888
Power Supply CoolerMaster Extreme Power
Software Windows Vista Ultimate x86 SP1
I have 3 seagate hardisk and 1 panasonic dvd-rw drive, all using SATA2 interface including the dvd drive. i just changed to the new mobo from biostar tforce 560, my Vista only boot correctly when bios setting to IDE for all hardisk, when using AHCI, Vista cannot boot properly, it seems that it require a driver for AHCI... but suppose Vista should have pre-installed AHCI driver. Now, im running Vista on native IDE interface even tho the hardisk connected through SATA port. Plus, my dvd drive not working properly. Vista detect it, then when insert any cd/dvd then it cannot read anything from the disc and Vista hang quite sometime until the disc ejected. then the drive missing (not detected) until the pc restarted.
 
AHCI driver included in Vista is installed only if AHCI is enabled during OS installation.
 
how can i enable the AHCI driver if i have already installed Vista? is there any solution? i dont prefer to re-install the whole system...
 
I don't think it's possible without reinstalling since the board doesn't appear to have a 3rd party IDE controller (Silicon Image, etc.). If there was such a chip you could enable AHCI, plug the HDD on the 3rd party controller then boot into Vista and reinstall nVidia chipset drivers to install AHCI driver.

But it looks like there's no 3rd party controller on that board...
 
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