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July 27, 2008

How to enable AHCI : Windows XP

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In case your your XP installation was done using IDE mode, and you decide to use AHCI for what ever reason, don’t worry. You can do that without reinstalling your Windows XP. This trick might usefull to for those who are confuse / lazy / afraid / <put your reason here> to slipstream AHCI driver into WinXP installation disc.

  • Start Device Manager (Right click on My Computer –> Property –> Hardware –> Device Manager

  • Right click on Primary IDE channel and choose Update Driver
    • Choose No, not at this time
    • Install a list or specific location (advance)
    • Don’t search. I will choose the driver to install

    • Have Disk
    • use AHCI driver (provided by manufacturer or download from net), in my case Acer 4530 provide AHCI driver for WinXP

  • Then, restart your computer/notebook
  • Enter BIOS (F2 usually for most notebook or DEL for most PC)
  • Change your SATA Mode to AHCI (instead of IDE)
  • Start your Computer (Windows)

Done.

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Alternative Solution – Credit to Steve

I took a slightly different approach.
1) Get SATA drivers for Windows (whatever flavour you use)
2) Control Panel, Add New Hardware.
3) Yes, already connected, browse to the bottom, hit “add a new device”
4) No, point it to the directory of your SATA drivers
5) Choose your driver from the list that returns. (Mine was the nVidia SATA controller)
6) Uninstall other standard IDE controllers.
7) Reboot and enter your BIOS
8) Change to AHCI mode
9) Boot to Windows… which finds the *ACTUAL* AHCI controller, and installs the same driver as what you chose in step 5.
10) Windows wants to reboot. Do that.
11) Go to Device Manager and then uninstall the AHCI controller that you installed (there will be two or more now, but you want to get rid of the one with the exclamation mark)
12) Success!

That was a *LOT* easier than what I thought it would. After reading many guides on how to do it with Intel chipsets with home-made registry entries and copying files around… Installing the driver manually as a “dummy” effectively does all that for you anyway!

Cheers people! The guide at the top was the closest that I found to succeeding, and put me on the right track!

-Steve

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Thanks Steve

64 Comments »

  1. it didnt work on my 4530.i already follow the steps and install AHCI driver from my Acer cd driver. when i change bios setting from IDE to AHCI, it keep restarting before the Windows XP loading progress. anyone can help?

    Comment by nino — July 28, 2008 @ 11:10 am | Reply

  2. can u pls provide the AHCI driver for WinXP download link

    Comment by borneo — July 28, 2008 @ 2:40 pm | Reply

  3. Hi Expertester

    I try this solution but fail .. sad but true .. and now this laptop sometimes reset the bios setting to factory default ( change the ahci to ide mode ).. and my xp keep restart with blue screen .. seems that some of the first batch of thie laptop have mobo problem .. any solution ?

    Comment by Myfizz — August 2, 2008 @ 3:20 am | Reply

  4. @Myfizz, may be I’m lucky I’ve never happen like your said above with my acer 4530

    maybe u need to consider to update your lappie with a newer bios to avoid those things

    ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_4530/vista/Bios/v.3326.zip or
    ftp://ftp.work.acer-euro.com/notebook/aspire_4530/vista/Bios/v.3328.zip

    but no explanation about this bios at the moment

    Comment by Borneo — August 4, 2008 @ 1:19 pm | Reply

  5. no luck…. looks like AHCI doesn’t like me… even after i flash the bios… i still cant install this so called “ACHI driver” provided by acer into my 4530… the result if i switch to ACHI, i cant book my XP 32bits.. not even “save mode”…

    Comment by optimizer — August 6, 2008 @ 12:00 am | Reply

  6. slipstream the driver into the windows cd and install it. that’s the easiest way to do it.

    Comment by mugmug — August 7, 2008 @ 4:13 am | Reply

  7. Hi experttester

    tq for the review and again tq mr mugmug for your replying my sms for the laptop price and again for the advice on slipstream .. my testing with the slipstream cd .. result all in working condition .. this on the 4th acer 4530 .. anybody want a copy of the slipstream do email to me :)

    Comment by myfizz — August 8, 2008 @ 3:36 am | Reply

  8. Sorry bro, but I Think u should delete this tutorial since it’s not working for me and seems to the others also..

    Comment by Andry — August 17, 2008 @ 1:33 pm | Reply

  9. Are you sure you are supposed to update the Primary IDE channel rather than one of the IDE controllers?

    I’m about to give this a shot on my Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H. I did a fast repair on my windows when I upgraded its internals, otherwise I would have just fed it a driver on installation.

    Comment by Steve — August 22, 2008 @ 5:11 pm | Reply

  10. Righto. Done.

    I took a slightly different approach.
    1) Get SATA drivers for Windows (whatever flavour you use)
    2) Control Panel, Add New Hardware.
    3) Yes, already connected, browse to the bottom, hit “add a new device”
    4) No, point it to the directory of your SATA drivers
    5) Choose your driver from the list that returns. (Mine was the nVidia SATA controller)
    6) Uninstall other standard IDE controllers.
    7) Reboot and enter your BIOS
    8) Change to AHCI mode
    9) Boot to Windows… which finds the *ACTUAL* AHCI controller, and installs the same driver as what you chose in step 5.
    10) Windows wants to reboot. Do that.
    11) Go to Device Manager and then uninstall the AHCI controller that you installed (there will be two or more now, but you want to get rid of the one with the exclamation mark)
    12) Success!

    That was a *LOT* easier than what I thought it would. After reading many guides on how to do it with Intel chipsets with home-made registry entries and copying files around… Installing the driver manually as a “dummy” effectively does all that for you anyway!

    Cheers people! The guide at the top was the closest that I found to succeeding, and put me on the right track!

    -Steve

    Comment by Steve — August 22, 2008 @ 5:28 pm | Reply

  11. I have the same problem blue screen 0×000007 on my acer 4530. Now i will try to setting the bios with all suggestion in here.

    Comment by Yebs — September 4, 2008 @ 9:08 am | Reply

  12. I tried your suggestion, but fail, my bios version 1.3331, can you suggest another tips to enable ahci in xp? I’m using xp sp 3…tks

    Comment by wahyu — November 17, 2008 @ 5:03 am | Reply

  13. Thank you Steve, your solution worked perfectly for the aspire 4530.

    precision for 3) no = manually install (second choice)
    then 3b) choose ata/ide controllers

    and then 4) from steve and go on from there :)

    Comment by phi — November 22, 2008 @ 5:06 pm | Reply

  14. Phi: Glad it helped! I’m using XP, so i’m not sure if we have the exact same options.

    Wahyu: If that doesn’t work for you, try it again perhaps? I have no better suggestions. Sorry!

    Comment by Steve — November 22, 2008 @ 11:57 pm | Reply

  15. works! thx man

    Comment by david — November 24, 2008 @ 10:53 am | Reply

  16. @steve

    it didnt work. tried both of your steps and used the driver on my cd. got BSOD.

    Comment by kris — November 26, 2008 @ 4:46 pm | Reply

  17. btw, im using 4530

    Comment by kris — November 26, 2008 @ 4:48 pm | Reply

  18. Finally

    Ok friend here the story .. i try to install Vista Ultimate X64 to my Acer 4530 .. since failed to slipstream Vista .. so the shortcut install using IDE first ..after finish installing.. now the final pain part to enable the Sata ..

    Follow the Mr Steve solution it seem ok .. but than dissaster slip in …. the Blue Screen syndrom after change the bios from ide to achi

    what the heck .. what and where is wrong

    dont panic .. how lucky Mr Steve can do it without error

    blame it to mr Microsoft error is due to AHCI driver (Msahci.sys) is disabled in Windows Vista due to the default behavior of Vista to turn off all unused storage driver so that system will load faster.

    so these are the step follow mr Steve solution until step 7 .. before you reboot

    a) modify the registry using regedit and Locate and then click the following registry subkey:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Msahci

    b) in the right pane, right-click Start in the Name column, and then click Modify.

    c) In the Value data box, type 0, and then click OK. exit and close regedit

    then follow MR Steve instruction step 7 .. reboot

    and enjoy

    Comment by myfizz — December 6, 2008 @ 6:08 am | Reply

  19. Sorry friend my method above only work for vista … you cannot modify the registry under xp since the services under xp not available .. sorry for the inconvenience :(

    Comment by myfizz — December 8, 2008 @ 4:44 am | Reply

  20. That is why, I have different post to guide how to enable AHCI in Windows Vista :P

    My bad, because I didn’t put related link here.

    Comment by expertester — December 9, 2008 @ 11:20 am | Reply

  21. Hi Expertester

    Shame on me .. maybe i’m too excited since it works after fail to slipstream the vista x64 .. Tq for your informative website .. it help alot :)

    Anyway when i install vista 32 do you have problem with the modem driver for vista 32 .. i feel irritating when i check the modem with exclamation mark .. i’m confuse .. the driver that they provide is not accurate or is it different brand ( that why i install vista X64 ) .. but when i check at vista64 device manager it mention “In-Build COnexant HDA Type 2 modem “

    Comment by myfizz — December 9, 2008 @ 2:19 pm | Reply

  22. Hehehe…no biggies.

    I don’t have any modem issue as yours but seem Vista x64 recognize more hardware than vista x86. tested on acer 4530.

    Comment by expertester — December 10, 2008 @ 3:52 am | Reply

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  25. So guys, does this guide work for XP? What’s the update on this?

    Comment by Sagittario — January 4, 2009 @ 6:28 pm | Reply

  26. hi, than you very much, your solution worked perfectly for my Toshiba Satellite L300 with XP SP3 already installed. Also solved the problems had with the stutter & crackles on audio playback (realtek audio hd).

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  29. i am attempting to install xp on an acer am3641-ed7200a, there is no option to change ahci to ide like on most newer bios. there is an option but it is grey in the bios. i cant seem to find the correct ahci drivers to slip into my xp install i have tried my bulk pack of ahci as well as an an nvidia set (ahci_v101012) no go … any one know?

    Comment by pcrx — January 29, 2009 @ 5:01 am | Reply

  30. This is brilliant, thanks. I’ve been looking for this information for two days, and both Intel and Lenovo keep saying that it’s not supported to do it this way.

    Comment by Justin — January 29, 2009 @ 4:59 pm | Reply

  31. I just succesfully convert my notebook harddisk from IDE to AHCI. My notebook is ACER 4530
    The following steps work for me:

    1) Get SATA drivers for Windows (whatever flavour you use)
    For you who want to get driver AHCI for Acer 4530, the driver can be download here:
    http://rapidshare.com/files/196616727/Driver_AHCI_Acer_4530_-_Windows_XP.rar

    2) Control Panel, Add New Hardware.
    3) Yes, already connected, browse to the bottom, hit “add a new device”
    4) No, point it to the directory of your SATA drivers
    5) Choose your driver from the list that returns. (Mine was the nVidia SATA controller)
    6) Uninstall other standard IDE controllers (Not Primary nor Secondary)
    7) Reboot and enter your BIOS
    8) Change to AHCI mode
    9) Boot to Windows… , if you success you will not meet the Blue Screen and Windows will install and find the driver automatically.
    10) Windows wants to reboot. Do that.
    11) Go to Device Manager and then uninstall the AHCI controller that you installed (there will be two or more now, but must Uninstall the one with the exclamation mark)
    12) Success!

    Thanks Admin and Steve

    Comment by ptcindonesia — February 11, 2009 @ 2:41 am | Reply

    • Dear All,

      My NB is Acer 4530.

      And i am facing the problem is the NB will automatic change a blue screen 2 mins after that reboot the windows. Sometimes the NB will hang … that is AMD CPU too hot??

      So i need to confirm my problem is under harddisk from IDE to AHCI?

      Thank you.

      Comment by Jee — August 24, 2009 @ 4:12 am | Reply

  32. Bloody Brilliant!

    I was about to spend the next 5 hours backing up my drives, then another doing trying the repair install method and then another 3 hours of Windows updates.

    But this did the job in 10 minutes on my Gigabyte EP45-DS3R motherboard.

    While my system was still in IDE mode there were 3 Primary IDE controllers listed in the DM. I just picked the second one and used the Expertester method.

    I don’t know if it helped, but after reading a bit from someone elses advice, I pre-installed the files for the Matrix Manager using the -a switch. It doesn’t install the program. It just extracts the files where there supposed to go eventually.

    After the second reboot, I installed the software normally and everything was good.

    It may not have been neccessary, but if you’re having trouble, I guess it can’t hurt. :)

    Comment by Raybo58 — February 11, 2009 @ 6:41 am | Reply

  33. Oops. I flubbed few words in my first paragraph.

    Instead of “another doing trying the repair install”, it should read “another hour trying the repair install”.

    Comment by Raybo58 — February 11, 2009 @ 6:44 am | Reply

  34. The procedure worked on my Acer 5920G, running win XP SP3.
    Hard was find the driver for the intel ICH8M controller; the one provided by Acer don’t worked (appear be incomplete); the one from intel is a bag of cats, with many, but no for ICH8M. I found just at http://www.4shared.com

    Thank you very much.

    Comment by Sukhoi — February 20, 2009 @ 7:55 pm | Reply

  35. Awesome, exactly what I needed!

    Comment by Seth — March 26, 2009 @ 5:00 pm | Reply

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    Education-Master degree in mechanical engineering.
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    Comment by Joooe — April 6, 2009 @ 5:23 am | Reply

  38. omg…the post above extremely funny…
    hmmm…. master degree or degree or master? Owh…mechanical engineering…that is why you cant figure it out lol…

    this post is awesome. save a lot of my time from formating my winxp. It take less than 10 minutes Joooe.

    Thanks admin, steeve and other contributors. It really help my day.

    Comment by LoL — April 6, 2009 @ 1:01 pm | Reply

  39. Neither method works on an Asus M3N78-VM. After applying the AHCI driver, rebooting, setting the AHCI mode, then booting to Windows, Windows XP gives a blue screen of death.

    Comment by Charles Robinson — April 10, 2009 @ 2:29 am | Reply

  40. Thanks a lot! Great article and everything works fine!
    Thank you one more time mate! You are fantastic!

    Comment by Chris — April 30, 2009 @ 12:54 am | Reply

  41. Same as Charles Robinson for me : it does not work with my Asus M3N78-VM. I tried all methods mentionned here : BSOD. What a luck to have Windows XP able to return each time to the last known working configuration ! I think that the method suggested by contructors are the best way to follow (and only way for me). I will buy a new disk and install a slipstreamed XP or, I prefer, with an usb disk-key.

    Comment by Gilles — May 8, 2009 @ 3:42 pm | Reply

  42. The procedure with F6 and a floppy (or USB emulation of floppy) does not work for me. Bad luck. I got an error about txtsetup.oem. I have read that many people encounter this problem too.
    I decided to slipstream XP with nLite. All is fine and not so complicated to do, even easy. And my Xp goes very faster about disks now.

    Comment by Gilles — May 9, 2009 @ 8:24 pm | Reply

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  44. Hi, I have an “Acer 3810T” which came with Vista. Have created a dual boot and installed WinXP Pro. However, I installed Win XP by going into the Bios and changing the SATA from AHCI to IDE (if not, it would not permit me to install). Currently, Vista works fine when I switch to AHCI and XP works fine when I switch to IDE. Some of the steps above from Steve appears to be easy, but I have a few queries.
    1) I have the AHCI driver for Win XP from the Acer website but when I log on to XP and try to install the driver apllication it results in an error (something about not being compatible). Hence can I have the correct driver if available.
    2) The instructions above :
    Quote:
    ) Get SATA drivers for Windows (whatever flavour you use)
    For you who want to get driver AHCI for Acer 4530, the driver can be download here:
    http://rapidshare.com/files/196616727/Driver_AHCI_Acer_4530_-_Windows_XP.rar

    2) Control Panel, Add New Hardware.
    3) Yes, already connected, browse to the bottom, hit “add a new device”
    4) No, point it to the directory of your SATA drivers
    5) Choose your driver from the list that returns. (Mine was the nVidia SATA controller)
    6) Uninstall other standard IDE controllers (Not Primary nor Secondary)
    7) Reboot and enter your BIOS
    Change to AHCI mode
    9) Boot to Windows… , if you success you will not meet the Blue Screen and Windows will install and find the driver automatically.
    10) Windows wants to reboot. Do that.
    11) Go to Device Manager and then uninstall the AHCI controller that you installed (there will be two or more now, but must Uninstall the one with the exclamation mark)
    12) Success!
    Unquote:

    Where can I find the SATA drivers?

    Comment by CJ — July 10, 2009 @ 8:11 am | Reply

  45. First method worked – enabling AHCI in situ
    Original XP installation done using IDE mode on old Toshi (2003), now old, slow and retired …
    New Tosh Sat A350 needed XP (Vista Drivers not available for older progs.)
    IDE mode changed to AHCI …

    Comment by Stephan — July 22, 2009 @ 8:45 am | Reply

  46. Thank god for people like you!!! you saved my life..

    Comment by Reuven — July 28, 2009 @ 6:24 pm | Reply

  47. There is a funny problem for nvidia chipsets. I have made a post on nvidia’s forums about it, “Alter AHCI, RAID driver inf files to allow individual install”

    http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=103872

    The last paragraph: The solution meanwhile: Each time you make an attempt at the AHCI driver switch, perform the hack of forcibly changing the controller to the new AHCI controller. BEFORE you reboot, go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase] and find the key entry with a similar name to the first device ID described in the [driver's] .inf file. Rename this key to a different ID referred to in the .inf file. Do this until one works.

    Example, I install the nvidia SATA storage controller over the standard controller. Then go to [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase] and rename the key “pci#ven_10de&dev_0554&cc_0106″ to “pci#ven_10de&dev_0AD5&cc_0106″. If this fails, use the “Last Known Good” option to repair the Windows boot, then do the hack and try another device ID. One will eventually work.

    Comment by ego533 — August 5, 2009 @ 7:10 pm | Reply

    • Thanks very much for the info, that’s how I actually got mine to work. However, rather than trying them out one by one, I simply exported the key [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_10de&dev_0554&cc_0106], opened the .reg file in a text editor, copied the exported branch and pasted it a couple of times underneath, altering the dev_XXXX&cc_XXXX section in each entry according to the nvgts.inf file’s various device IDs.

      I then updated the driver in devman, uninstalled the std. IDE controller and imported the .reg file I created before I rebooted. Switched to AHCI in BIOS and booted into Windows. And voilà: NO BSOD!

      Perhaps someone else will find this helpful.

      Comment by Phreddie — August 11, 2009 @ 5:28 pm | Reply

      • Hey! It works finally for me. I added all the device ID into the registry, updated the drivers in device manager and changed the bios settings to AHCI. I am using Asus M4N78 motherboard.

        Comment by Ernest Chee — September 19, 2009 @ 3:39 am

  48. Can anyone help me out?
    i have an acer aspire 8930g. i’m trying to install the ahci driver for xp, which i have downloaded from the acer site, but it seems to be the driver for vista? although others are saying it’s also a xp driver. the problem i have is that the folder that downloads is not a driver file, and needs to run through a setup wizard. on xp, this setup fails, saying that it is not the correct system for the setup to run.
    anyone with any ideas, please!!!
    Thanks to anyone who can either help, or add some suggestions!
    Cheers!

    Comment by Gareth — August 7, 2009 @ 2:39 pm | Reply

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  51. @expertester thanks a lot lot lot… worked like a cake!

    Comment by krislogy — August 21, 2009 @ 3:38 pm | Reply

  52. Hi Expertester, and thank for the first solution. This works for me!! I have an Asus P5Q3 motherboard and Seagate Barracuda 500Gb HD with NCQ and Win XP Pro SP3.
    I recommend that first download drivers from Asus website, and then unzip and folow the steps from first solution.
    Thanks again!

    Comment by Fabricio — September 11, 2009 @ 12:49 pm | Reply

  53. I just went through these steps with WinXP on a Latitude E6400, used the Intel ICH9M-E/M SATA.

    I followed the directions, installed the Intel AHCI driver, rebooted, changed setting in BIOS to AHCI, came right up into XP and recognized the drivers. Worked great! Thanks for putting this together.

    Comment by Glen — October 2, 2009 @ 4:12 pm | Reply

  54. thanks – I uses your guide with a dell inspiron 1545, get the ahci-driver r197861.exe on Dell-website

    Comment by Hans — October 12, 2009 @ 5:55 pm | Reply

  55. i have an acer 6930 which i downloaded the Intel Matrix Storage Manager Driver, but my GM45 Express chipset doesnt appear on it , what do i do??
    any help on this guys ??
    awaiting reply ASAP….

    Comment by shanky — October 16, 2009 @ 4:11 pm | Reply

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  57. Geez Man, You are brilliant!
    I was looking for this solution about 6 months!
    Thank You very much!

    Comment by Grim_demon — October 27, 2009 @ 7:26 pm | Reply

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  59. After review on how to enable AHCI in winXP in this post and made some trial and error, I came to this solution and work great for me. I hope it will be great for you too.
    This only for NVidia Chipset and for else I don’t know)
    First to keep in your mind that AHCI driver is include in chipset driver (for NVidia! Else, I don’t know).

    Preparation.
    1. download your laptop NVidia nForce chipset driver (newest is better)
    2. Extract that driver and you will find your AHCI driver in it. Mine is in “E:\ACER ASPIRE 4530 DRIVER XP\Chipset_NVIDIA_17.04_XPx86\IDE\WinXP\raidtool”
    3. Yup! RAIDTOOL folder! In here you will find your actual AHCI controller driver.
    4. Copy RAIDTOOL folder to your specific location so you can search it easily later.

    Instalation
    Go step by step as same as Expertester and Stevedid. And I really sure that you won’t get BSOD.

    NOTE:
    As I read in NVidia’s Forum, your AHCI controller must have same type or version with your chipset. So if we use AHCI driver provided by ACER it self, we will come to BSOD because they’r not on the same version or type.
    Sorry for my bad grammar.

    GOOD LUCK

    Comment by Paulus Estee — November 3, 2009 @ 7:11 am | Reply

  60. Wow! I tried the first solution on my Aspire One D250, not only did it fix the audio (sounds PERFECT now), but Windows boots up in about 1/8 of the time and runs much faster :-D :-D Thanks a million!

    Comment by Matt — November 15, 2009 @ 5:04 am | Reply

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