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Intel Matrix Storage Manager Ver:7.0.0.1020 supports ICH8-M in AHCI mode with Windows 2000. Details: Download: http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Des...ms〈=eng Release notes: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15449/ENG/...ase%20notes.htm ReadMe: http://downloadmirror.intel.com/15449/ENG/readme.txt It is also supports ordinary ICH8 in AHCI mode (not listed above). You have to patch some inf's to achieve this ICH8 support IMSM AHCI V7.0.0.1020 (Patched), download: http://rapidshare.com/files/30169630/AHCI_...r_ICH8.zip.html I have a *success* installing Windows 2000 Professional in AHCI Mode with Intel® Desktop Board DQ963FX ICH8-Based mobo. Starting with ICH9 there is NO support for Windows 2000 in AHCI/RAID mode via Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Very SAD. :(

Another recently get new configuration has a success running Windows NT 4.0 M/B INTEL DG33FB (OEM) Socket775 <G33> PCI-E+SVGA+GbLAN+1394 SATA ATX 4DDR-II<PC2-6400> CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E8500 BOX 3.16 GHz/ 6Mb/ 1333MHz 775-LGA Kingston <KHX6400D2LLK2/2G> DDR-II DIMM 2Gb HyperX KIT 2*1Gb <PC2-6400> CL4 HDD 250 Gb SATA Seagate SV35.2 <3250820SV> 7200rpm 8Mb Remarks. 1. Drivers : UniATA ( ICH9 legacy ) + VBEMP NT4 ( G33 ) + Digi Ionetworks USB. 2. Installation type : copy installed OS hdd image from Virtual PC 2004. 3. Hal type : Standard PC

Hi, there! You can request ANY unrelased or unpublished hotfix for ANY Windows version ANY language for Microsoft just write a letter to this email address nahotfx@microsoft.com: (In 2007 there was a web-service from Microsoft to do this email request, NOW its gone. And my method is still working. ) and in ONE DAY answer arrives:

According to this M$ article: Disks and File Systems: The Basics http://www.microsoft.com/technet/archive/win95/rk20_dsk.mspx - This 9x/ME UniATA port is theoretically possible with a minor re-write because win9x contains somewhat NT-compatible API to call scsiport.sys ( in win9x it is named scsiport.pdr ) - it do a lot of generic abstract disk-related work. Intel's IntelATA driver (IAA 2.3 - http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/iaa/ ) is made such way, if you haven't already know (intelata.sys is used for NT4, intelata.mpd for Win9x - these drivers/files accessed scsiport driver the same way). A lot of code in UniATA was taken from linux kernel ide drivers. Main difference (In UniATA) that in NT-version it supports SMP machines and has A LOT OF SMP code and related i/o synchronization. For different Windows NT-family OS-es (NT 3.51, NT 4.0, W2K, XP) some tweaks and OS detection routines are present to make driver universal. This driver also performs some operations with virtual/physical address space. Win9x system does not need and doesn't support all that stuff above. So it must be accurately removed... But doing it is not an easy stuff...

Not so rare as you think. BTW, I has a success installing NT4 onto Intel® Desktop Board DQ963FX ( http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DQ963FX/index.htm ) 1) For IDE/SATA - I use Alter's UniATA ( http://alter.org.ua/en/soft/win/uni_ata/ ) - it supports ICH8 in LEGACY mode 2) For Intel Video I use VBEMP ( see my site ) or SciTech SNAP Personal Edtion - http://my.scitechsoft.com/navigate.php ( you must register to get free driver ) 3) PhoenixAPM for software power off ( see my site ) 4) Digi /Ionetworks/ USB for USB ( see my site )

I had the same symptoms with that colour setting, so I guess the problem is in the driver. I didn't have a problem setting it to 32-bit, though. In version dated December 2007 I solve some problems in VBEMP for 9x: P.S. If you haven't already know, I made VBEMP driver for NT/9x. Feel free to test it. :)