Enabling ACHI & Vista Help

gam3r · 25 Sep 2009 at 18:43

I'm trying to get vista to boot with AHCI mode set in the bios instead of IDE...What happens is that when I enable AHCI in the bios and try boot vista, the PC just reboots after getting past the vista loading screen.

I have done what this post says here:

http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/07/19/how-to-enable-ahci-without-reformating/

But it didn't work...

I only have SATA HD's and 1 IDE DVD-RW

Ideas?

marktime · 25 Sep 2009 at 18:46

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976#appliesto

marktime · 25 Sep 2009 at 18:47

Try this

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976#appliesto

Sorry, double post. And ignore, didn't realise you'd already tried it.

gam3r · 25 Sep 2009 at 18:54

Cheers for the reply...Yup have tried that already

AbsenceJam · 25 Sep 2009 at 18:59

Any reason why you need AHCI? You can still hotswap without it using http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm and it doesn't improve performance, in fact it can hinder it unless you can disable NCQ.