anyone sucessful installing xp on a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L with ahci enabled?

[nervegrind3r]

doing a fresh install of the os on a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L mobo. in the bios, if I set ahci, I get bsod immediately after all the drivers get loaded from the xp installer (before you normally accept the license agreement and select an installation location).

HOWEVER, if I change sata to native ide mode instead of ahci, no problems. Fine, I obviously need drivers.

Ive been googling this, but cannot find exactly what I need. I see it referenced in different pages, but have had no luck here.

I have tried the intel matrix storage drivers (floppy version) intel link

as well as the drivers from the gigabyte website. Neither set of drivers are accepted when I F6 and put the floppy in during the load driver section during the xp installation.

do I have the wrong drivers, or what is going on? I plan to use this for my hackintosh build, so I need ahci enabled in the bios anyway. Anyone have a concrete resolution here?

thanks


edit, solution below

edit 2: cannot boot from bootable cd/dvds now, wtf@#$

 

[PG]

I could not get this to work either. I found some drivers and had them on a floppy ready to go.
I enabled ahci in the bios. Then during installation I hit F6 and loaded the ICH9 driver from the floppy. XP took just fine, but after a minute or so XP said that there was no hard disk in the system to install XP to.
I rebooted and checked the bios. Sure enough, there was no hard disk present when I have ahci enabled. I disabled ahci, saved that setting, and then the hard drive can be seen and everything was fine.
After a few more attempts I just gave up and left ahci disabled.
I have no idea how to get that installed. Why enabling ahci makes the drive invisible to the bios and to XP during installation is beyond me. I never changed any cable or power connector around.
Supposedly ahci works with Visa, but I do not know how. If the bios and XP can't even see the drive with ahci enabled, how can Vista?

 

[Heidfirst]

ICH9 doesn't officially support AHCI under XP (although I believe that it can be hacked), ICH9R does.

 

[axy1985]

Hi!
I'm interested in buying the Gigabyte mobo, so read on. After some search, I found this, maybe you didn't find it:
http://www.msfn.org/board/How-...-under-XP-t109450.html.

I wouldn't know if it really works, but there are several ppl there that confirm it, some of them with the Gigabyte mobo.

 

[nervegrind3r]

Originally posted by: axy1985
Hi!
I'm interested in buying the Gigabyte mobo, so read on. After some search, I found this, maybe you didn't find it:
http://www.msfn.org/board/How-...-under-XP-t109450.html.

I wouldn't know if it really works, but there are several ppl there that confirm it, some of them with the Gigabyte mobo.

thanks, I did come across that, and its probably the one thing I have not tried yet. I tried burning other isos with nlite and what I thought were the appropriate drivers, but I never had any success.

I will try that solution. Also, the other solution I found was to load xp in native ide move, then add the ahci drivers afterwards, and then enable ahci in the bios.

In any case, I think this is all extremely poor on behalf of gigabyte, and other other manufacturer, to not include drivers that are easily accessible to use features that are listed in the bios. I have been messing with this for two days straight, and am pretty annoyed at this point trying to get this going. There is no documentation or workaround on gigabytes website that clearly explains if and how ahci works with xp, but only that vista is required for ncq and hot swap, thats it.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Heidfirst
ICH9 doesn't officially support AHCI under XP (although I believe that it can be hacked), ICH9R does.

The only thing in the AHCI specs it does not support is hot plug SATA.
Intel didn't list it as AHCI compliant because its not 100%.
But it still supports all the other AHCI features.


The way I got AHCI to work was install the OS, install the drivers, reboot, then turn on AHCI.
AHCI is a method for interfacing the drive and does not affect the way the partition or data is stored on the drive itself. So turning it on afterward doesn't change performance compared to turning it on before install.

 

[themisfit610]

Interesting.

I have the DS4, and got it to install XP via AHCI perfectly. I'm guessing I have the ICH9R...

~MiSfit

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: themisfit610

I have the DS4, and got it to install XP via AHCI perfectly. I'm guessing I have the ICH9R...

you do

 

[superstition]

I have a DS3L and I didn't have any trouble. My XP drive is IDE, though. The SATA drive I have is for OS X.

 

[Spicedaddy]

worked fine in Vista X64... I saw absolutely no difference, so I went back to IDE mode.

 

[nervegrind3r]

finally got this working, went to this link

download floppy disk drivers from HERE

then proceeded with step 2

I had originally put these drivers on a floppy disk and booted from an xp cd, but when I chose the f6 option to install the drivers, windows setup did not accept them. I guess they had to be modified as stated in the tutorial, and then they work...which they ended up doing for me, FINALLY!

normally, I would not care for ahci, but I need to have ahci enabled and working in bios to make this hackintosh project work. since im dual booting windows and osx, ahci is a must.

thanks all!



edit: cannot boot from bootable cd/dvds now, wtf@#$

 

[Old Hippie]

I've used the Autoplay Repair Wizard to fix that problem.

But with hacked drivers, I dunno.

 

[nervegrind3r]

Originally posted by: Old Hippie
I've used the Autoplay Repair Wizard to fix that problem.

But with hacked drivers, I dunno.

that looks like windows software. I mean booting from a cd/dvd before the os loads, such as with an xp cd, or hirens. It just hangs before it would normally read the disc; ive left it to read for longer than 30 minutes. If i switch bios back to ahci disabled, reads the boot disc with no problem.


wtf!

 

[Spicedaddy]

Originally posted by: nervegrind3r

Originally posted by: Old Hippie
I've used the Autoplay Repair Wizard to fix that problem.

But with hacked drivers, I dunno.

that looks like windows software. I mean booting from a cd/dvd before the os loads, such as with an xp cd, or hirens. It just hangs before it would normally read the disc; ive left it to read for longer than 30 minutes. If i switch bios back to ahci disabled, reads the boot disc with no problem.


wtf!

some SATA optical drives don't like AHCI mode. Is there a firmware update for your drive?

 

[superstition]

normally, I would not care for ahci, but I need to have ahci enabled and working in bios to make this hackintosh project work. since im dual booting windows and osx, ahci is a must.

Good luck. I'm running OS X on it right now.

 

[nervegrind3r]

ill try updating the firmware tonite, if a new one exists.

Good luck. I'm running OS X on it right now.

Once I get this working solid with windows, I intend to dual boot to osx too man

 

[Eric62]

Originally posted by: nervegrind3r
doing a fresh install of the os on a gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L mobo. in the bios, if I set ahci, I get bsod immediately after all the drivers get loaded from the xp installer (before you normally accept the license agreement and select an installation location).

HOWEVER, if I change sata to native ide mode instead of ahci, no problems. Fine, I obviously need drivers.

Ive been googling this, but cannot find exactly what I need. I see it referenced in different pages, but have had no luck here.

I have tried the intel matrix storage drivers (floppy version) intel link

as well as the drivers from the gigabyte website. Neither set of drivers are accepted when I F6 and put the floppy in during the load driver section during the xp installation.

do I have the wrong drivers, or what is going on? I plan to use this for my hackintosh build, so I need ahci enabled in the bios anyway. Anyone have a concrete resolution here?

thanks


edit, solution below

edit 2: cannot boot from bootable cd/dvds now, wtf@#$

I'm planning on buying the same mobo. Until now I'd never heard of ahci, and fortunately will not need to enable it.
This might help - I hope: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=457699