[Integration of Intel's SATA AHCI and RAID drivers]

@ avelinocr:

If you want to get Windows XP x64 SP2 installed onto the hdd of your laptop with an Intel 6-Series chipset, you should do the following:

1. Download the "64bit Intel RST textmode driver v11.2.0.1006 WHQL" I have linked within the start post of this thread and unzip the package.
   
2. Copy the content of your original Windows XP x64 SP2 CD into a separate folder (example: C:\XP x64) of your pc/laptop.
   
3. Run nLite, don't load any presets of previousnLite processings and let nLite integrate just the prepared "64bit Intel RST textmode driver v11.2.0.1006 WHQL".
   
4. When you get the Textmode driver popup window, enable only the listed "Intel® Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller".
   
5. Let nLite create the ISO file and burn a bootable CD of it or let nLite burn the bootable image directly.
   
6. Make sure, that the SATA Controller of your laptop has been set to "AHCI" within the BIOS ("Setup").
   
7. Boot off the freshly created Windows XP x64 XD with integrated AHCI driver.
   
8. Have fun with the OS running in AHCI mode.

Good luck!

Fernando

Thanks buddy.

It worked fine.

I think that the problem is because I was using a software called FlashBoot to make the image created by nLite bootable by a Flash Drive.

The very same image generated by nLite that I used in Flash Drive and didn't worked, worked just fine when burned to a CD-R.

This is off-topic but inside Windows XP x64 i'm having a hard time installing drivers. I managed to install WLAN, AUDIO and USB drivers, but whenever I use these devices the system gets lagged and some times freezes. It seems like the drivers are installed fine but something that connect these devices to the main board are not working properly. For example my WLAN is kinda slow (the signal seems good but the speed is very bad).

Thanks anyway.

[Integration of Intel's SATA AHCI and RAID drivers]

@ avelinocr:

Welcome at MSFN Forum!

Questions:

1. Which Intel textmode driver (name and version) did you integrate?
   
2. Which Controller did you enable, when you got the nlite textmode driver popup window?

Regards

Fernando

Hi, thanks for the fast answer!

1) I tried integratind different versions, wich include:

First I've tried the official one from this page on Intel Download Center, specifically the "f6flpy-x64_11.2.0.1006.zip" file, since my laptop is x64 based. But the strange thing about this is the fact that the "Detailed Description" section says this driver is for Intel desktop boards, maybe I got the wrong download?

Searching for 11.2.0.1006 on Intel Download Center also returned this other 2 pages:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21407&keyword=11.2.0.1006&DownloadType=Drivers〈=eng

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=21730&keyword=11.2.0.1006&DownloadType=Drivers〈=eng

But them both seem to be for RAID, and mine is AHCI.

After that I found your article and tried the A and B options.

2) First I tried enabling only Series 6 AHCI controller, since that doesn't worked I've tried selecting all of them at the same time (is this a problem?) but don't got lucky.

I don't know if this may affect the process but i'm booting these integrated drivers Windows XP Setup's from a Flash Drive (to avoid burning lots of CD's)

Other thing that make me question if I'm doing something wrong is these two quotes:

Attention: Look into your mainboard manual, if your S-ATA hdd(s) are connected to any of the above mentioned Intel ICH7/ICH8/ICH9/ICH10/5-Series/6-Series SATA ports. If your mainboard has an other (legacy type) Intel SATA AHCI/RAID Controller, you should integrate the Intel AHCI/RAID driver you will find within your mainboard driver CD.

What exactly is a legacy type controller? I don't tried the one from driver CD, maybe this works...

When I get home I'm gonna try this ASAP.

After some further tests, I finally discovered the trick. Service Pack 3 is required to install Windows XP on a machine with P67 chipset (and probably H67 too, maybe even Z68).

I tested drivers 10.1.0.1008 without SP3 and got BSOD. Latest drivers (10.5.0.1027) with SP3 worked.

So if you want to install XP on a Sandy Bridge machine you'll need to integrate SP3 and the Intel drivers. Driver version is not important as soon as they are recent enough, and also is not necessary to "isolate" a specific one, you may integrate the full pack.

Again, the SP3 requirement is not mentioned anywhere in the Intel documentation.

I'm updating the previous post to reflect the conclusions.

This other post caught my attention since my controller is a series 6 one, but how i'm gonna integrate SP3 to a Windows XP x64, far as I know X64 edition only got a SP2.

Thanks for all.

[Integration of Intel's SATA AHCI and RAID drivers]

Hello,

First of all, thanks for the great article.

But I'm kinda stuck:

I got a untouched Windows XP x64 SP2 disc and followed this guide line by line and I still can't manage to detect my SATA AHCI HDD at Windows XP Install Program.

I'm on a Dell XPS 15 (L502X) Laptop, I downloaded CPU-Z and according to it my SATA controller is a HM67, which means it's a Intel 6-Series controller (acordingo to this)

Here's the report from CPU-Z:

I've already verified that my BIOS is at last version.

What can it possible be the problem?