AHCI with XP on GA-A75-D3H

[PeteC]

I created my floppy disk, pressed F6 and selected the "x86" AHCI driver

Windows setup created the partition but then asked again for the driver on A:. The floppy disk and drive had not been disconnected but Windows will not load the driver again!

Is there a way around this?

I am currently installing XP without AHCI, so is there an alternative way to enable AHCI after XP is installed?

[autotech]

Have a look at this and or the following link.

http://expertester.wordpress.com/2008/07/27/how-to-enable-ahci-windows-xp/



http://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+enable+ahci+on+windows+xp&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-SearchBox&ie=&oe=



Hope this helps good luck. Welcome to the gigabyte forums.

[Tiger]

The GA-A75-D3H like most new motherboards has no floppy drive connector. There are a limited number of USB floppy drives certified by Microsoft to install Windows XP. How are you connecting a floppy disk drive?

An alternative method of installing XP is to use nLite and create a  XP install cd with the SATA drive included.
http://www.wikihow.com/Slipstream-Your-SATA-Drivers-Into-a-Windows-XP-Installation-CD-Using-nLite

[Vezina]

Indeed ,Tiger is right ,there is no floppy connector on the mobo  i wonder how you were using a floppy .

Karma added for Tiger ,slipstreaming is the way  
I recommend "Winfuture XP ISO Builder"  for this procedure never failed on me compared to nlite.It saved the day with some laptops

On the other hand IDE Mode may be good enough if the procedure fails.

[PeteC]

I bought a USB flopy drive specifically to do this - might be a waste of money now!

I've followed the links above and when I try to update the driver using the ahci86.inf from the disk, I get the error "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware" :-(

[Vezina]

Here you go -> http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/xp-Iso-Builder.shtml
                         http://winfuture.de/XPIsoBuilder_en
Some guide here -> http://www.winfuture-forum.de/index.php?showtopic=126900

It may be the case that the driver on mobo site to be useless.The inf-s of the driver may be edited to add the hardware ID of the SATA hardware to install that driver , but it s risky.If this is the case use the IDE Mode on XP or go for Windows 7 with it s AHCI own driver.

[autotech]

If you bought a usb floppy then it was a waste. For one the computer wont see it as a floppy until after windows 7 is installed. Much easier and faster to use a usb drive or as the above poster said slipstream it into the disk.