AHCI in XP Driving me NUTS!!

hondo said:
Yep fine Broken Hope, I will re-install, it doesn't "seem" to take too long :D

Re the firmware :eek: shouldn't that already be up to date? The drive is only 3 days old, well to me :)

& is it difficult to do?
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There's been 2 newer firmware updates since 0009, it's really simple to do, you simply double click an exe file and it reboots your system, flashes the firmware then boots back into Windows, you don't have to actually do anything yourself.

Here's the file from Crucial.

http://edge.crucial.com/firmware/m4/000F/m4_SSD_Firmware_Update_Utility_000F.zip
 
Thanks Broken Hope :) I think I'm going to have some breakfast & a few slugs of whisky before I do that. :D
 
Broken Hope said:
There's been 2 newer firmware updates since 0009, it's really simple to do, you simply double click an exe file and it reboots your system, flashes the firmware then boots back into Windows, you don't have to actually do anything yourself.

Here's the file from Crucial.

http://edge.crucial.com/firmware/m4/000F/m4_SSD_Firmware_Update_Utility_000F.zip
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STRUTH!!! What a difference. Boot was taking 23 seconds before

Thanks a lot Broken Hope.

I'm off out now however I'll post another AS SSD screenshot later on today





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You can just import your Outlook Express emails to Windows Live Mail, which is what replaced OE.
 
Scougar said:
If you like it, you like it.. but windows 7 is honestly excellent. There are a few annoying things like trying to be too user friendly, but you can change to 'classic' layouts if you prefer.

Just do the repair install, and as suggested try putting the drivers on when doing it :-)

Also.. did you know you can run a virtual windows xp client inside windows 7? That would give you access to XP based emails if you really needed them with minimum fuss, until you got enough emails in win 7 to just archive or ditch the old ones.

You can also dual boot and just shove xp on an old HDD.
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This, really. The taskbar and search tool are brilliant and I hate being without them. Lots of other touches I like too like the resmon program and the vastly improved driver support. I'm already sold on Windows 8 just from the new task manager alone (will likely ditch the metro start screen though)

With modern windows built in driver support and www.ninite.com rebuilding isn't particularly daunting. It's a couple of hours tops to rebuild and get everything reinstalled, most of which can be unattended. Nothing beats that freshly clean system feel :)
 
Broken Hope either yours is better set-up, or is faster than mine. :)


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hondo said:
STRUTH!!! What a difference. Boot was taking 23 seconds before

Thanks a lot Broken Hope.

I'm off out now however I'll post another AS SSD screenshot later on today





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That's Windows 7? Put an SSD in my (Sata2) system (Vista 64bit) and although there was a noticable improvement, the bootup to logon is still 33 seconds or something... It's not much quicker than from hard drive really.. Shame!
 
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hondo said:
NeilFawcett Did you change over in the BIOS from IDE to AHCI ?
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I changed the SATA setting from IDE to AHCI before hand yes (after doing the reg edit). And you could see the BIOS and Windows behaving/displaying slightly differently accordingly!?

But - and I suspect this is nothing - as the BIOS boots up, all the disk drives llisted are shown as "IDE". But I suspect this doesn't mean anything...
 
hondo said:
Broken Hope either yours is better set-up, or is faster than mine. :)


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Sata2 on the motherboard makes difference! Got to ask? Is it worth me for £15 or something putting a Sata3 PCIe card on my Asus P5Q pro?

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WHY HAS MINE GOT "ATA" in the description of the M4?
 
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NeilFawcett said:
But - and I suspect this is nothing
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I'm afraid I can't offer any help, a pretty much PC Dummy here, & it means nothing to me at all Neil :o

From my point of view with Win 7 now installed I've got a load of stuff that seems totally incompatible with it. & the sooner I can find, or figure out how to install the AHCI driver with Win XP, the better I will feel.

I've just tried to burn a new Win XP image Inc of the AHCI driver with info from the link below, I dunno if I'm using the wrong AHCI driver files from the motherboard disk, but not long after setup is ready to install the PC just flips & BSODs :(
 
Im reading this with interest as I have a XP system here with SSD on it too.
Just for context, the graphics card here is from 1997 with 1mb onboard ram! To some people 14 years of service is no reason to replace it

However I do think the machine would run better on win7 but it has over 30,000 MS Office (2003) Outlook emails and contacts, etc I must not disturb, is that transfer utility likely to help with that?

Im likely to do it all manually but its used every day so I will have to keep two cloned copies going.

The SSD drive is an old Patriot model. It is apparently also out of alignment as mentioned above, I have no clue what that is but this model was not fast but beats hdd anyway


Crystalmark run leftside is an empty 30gb drive and rightside is after I used Acronis to clone the XP install onto it

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You might want to look at Thunderbird for emails. I actually use #2 which has been replaced by #3 but I think they import old emails and once done you can easily transfer it over to any OS with mozbackup.
OE should be a lot easier to do

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That'd be nice maybe, not exactly working so far :D
 
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What I did was to transfer all of my OE emails & accounts to MSO Outlook after which I used Window easy transfer to back up the required files.


After installing Win 7 and MSO Outlook I restored from Win easy transfer, the emails and accounts remained intact.

Although in fairness I didnt rely on Win Easy transfer alone, I also use (Inachis E BACKUP) which was a freebie I found some years back, had all have gone pear shaped, I' would have reinstalled XP + OE and restored the emails and accounts with Inachis E BACKUP which I knew for a fact would work, but only I understand from XP to XP.

All in all I still prefer XP but from what I can see there’s little point in using that while using an SDD with no Trim facility. Gawd know what this Trim thing is I can't find no sign of it in Win 7.

Also I've now lost the ability to use the creative Labs Sound cards "Record what you hear" feature, I expect this is called the progress of man :rolleyes:
 
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hondo said:
All in all I still prefer XP but from what I can see there’s little point in using that while using an SDD with no Trim facility.
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From what I've seen (coming from Vista with an M4) I don't believe lacking TRIM does cause any significant issue(s)!?
 
Windows XP is dead now, its reached end of life for support and its working on running out of extended support which is not for the end user.

More and more compatibly problems as time goes on. I think it was said above, i'm on windows xp it does what i want. What is the problem?

You answered this before even asking the question
"AHCI in XP Driving me NUTS!!"

Although the same thing would have happened with 7 if you didn't do the regedit.

As for emails, i gave up keeping them all on my pc long ago and just figured meh trust google. Imported most of my old emails into that account, and get multi device access to them all.
 
****199 if Win7 is so brilliant, why is it that my Creative Recorder no longer works?

Do I need to upgrade that too? Will I then descend into an ongoing spiral of every time I change an OS I'll also always need to upgrade hardware too.

Mmm, sounds just like a manufactures dream come true to me.
 
I have things like USB webcam's I can't use purely because Creative won't provide a driver for vista/w7. There is even an almost identical model, but comes with a W7 driver lol. Just the way things are unfortunately. It's one of the reason's Creative got a MASSIVE bitch slap from it's customers during the 'Daniel_K' (and 'PAX') saga when he put up drivers that enabled X-Fi cards to run ALL the features in Vista that Creative had deliberately not enabled.
 
There is at least one util that records what you hear on newer windows. I think you'd need to buy it though. They have probably been told not to provide such things easily
 
hondo said:
****199 if Win7 is so brilliant, why is it that my Creative Recorder no longer works?

Do I need to upgrade that too? Will I then descend into an ongoing spiral of every time I change an OS I'll also always need to upgrade hardware too.

Mmm, sounds just like a manufactures dream come true to me.
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Same issue with a scanner, it had to be replaced.

This is an OS first released in 2001, things do change. Its not that unfair to expect some hardware to be replaced too. Just like using new hardware on an older os, you can't expect it all to work.
 
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