AHCI Help with Asus P5Q SE Plus Mobo

[BadThad]

I'm trying to load Vista Ultimate 32 bit on a PC with a P5Q SE Plus mobo (P45 chipset) and it won't accept ICH10 drivers from Intel nor the drivers that came on CD with the board. I tried several versions. Asus doesn't have the F6 drivers listed on their website either.

Anyone have a link to the right AHCI drivers for this board?

 

[Claudius-07]

I have the exact same Mobo. Never EVER had to install any drivers using the F6 command during the OS install (vista or Win 7 I mean). As long as you set it to ACHI in the Bios beforehand... you are golden.

Once Vista is installed, you could navigate on over to the Asus site and look for the chipset drivers for that board or simply get the all in one from the Intel inf download site.

But again, there was NO need to use the F6 option.

 

[BadThad]

I have AHCI set in BIOS but Vista setup sees no hard drive attached. It's a WDC 36GB Raptor set to single drive (no jumper). Also, the drive is on SATA0 on the mobo.

 

[lopri]

1) Is the disk Vista w/ SP1? If the disk is original Vista then AHCI drivers for ICH9R/ICH10R may be necessary.

2) If the board has an auxiliary disk controller (JMicron, Marvel, Silicon Image, etc.), turn it off until OS installation completes.

3) Intel recommends setting the controller to RAID mode, even if your goal is AHCI. Simply set the controller to RAID in the board's BIOS, but don't create any RAID array. Load F6 drivers when the OS asks for it.

 

[BadThad]

1) Is the disk Vista w/ SP1? If the disk is original Vista then AHCI drivers for ICH9R/ICH10R may be necessary.

2) If the board has an auxiliary disk controller (JMicron, Marvel, Silicon Image, etc.), turn it off until OS installation completes.

3) Intel recommends setting the controller to RAID mode, even if your goal is AHCI. Simply set the controller to RAID in the board's BIOS, but don't create any RAID array. Load F6 drivers when the OS asks for it.

1) Actually, I think it's SP0. I got the OS with an Intel bundle a LONG time ago when Vista first came out.

2) Excellent idea! I definately missed that and that could be the root of all the evil.

3) First I've heard of that and I've done the F6 driver install a few times on other motherboards. Another good idea definately worth a shot if the above doesn't work.

THANKS!

 

[BadThad]

Still couldn't get it working so I bought Windows 7. Now I have the exact same problem....argggggg.

The secondary controller is a Jmicron but it's only for IDE. I cannot turn it off since that would disable my IDE controller, I don't have a SATA DVD drive. Also, RAID is disabled on the version of the ICH10, so there is no RAID option to turn on.

It appears Vista and 7 are both looking at the Jmicron controller during setup and ignoring my ICH10 SATA......ARRRGGGGGG.

Anyone have more ideas?

 

[BadThad]

PROBLEM SOLVED!

It turns out Windows doesn't like my Raptor. After fighting and fighting, I opened a new Seagate 320GB drive, put it on and Windows 7 saw it.

 

[lopri]

Glad you've figured it out. And it makes sense. Is the Raptor older 74GB version? I believe those don't support NCQ. (it does something else.. TCQ?)