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Sorry about the hijack. I though this thread was what I was looking for. The link that you mentioned in post 41 sends me to a "MediaFire" website that shows an invalid or deleted file. Is this the zip file that you are talking about? 32bit AMD SBxxx textmode driver v3.3.1540.29 for XP mod by Fernando.7z Also, I have an AMD SATA Controller (Native IDE Mode) instead of the Standard Dual Channel IDE Controller. Is this the one that I should update? The other ones are AMD PCI IDE Controller and two of the Primary IDE Channels and two of the Seconday IDE Channels. Also can you educate me and tell me what this BIOS setting in the Chipset page. It shows "Native IDE", "RAID", "AHCI", "Legacy IDE", and "IDE->AHCI". I am interested in what the last setting means. I can not find any documentation anywhere that addresses the "IDE->AHCI" selection. All I know is that if I select it, Windows XP will BSOD. As a last, as I have already imported the reg hack from Cdob in post 9 and moved the file as indicated, should I revert back to an earlier version of the registry? I exported a copy before I ran the hack in case there was a problem and I needed to revert. Thanks for your help and again, sorry to have hijacked this thread. I throught after reading through it that it was kind of dual topic and this was the best place to address this instead of starting a new thread.

Copy file ahcix86.sys to system32\drivers. Import this reg settingsREGEDIT4[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_1002&cc_0106]"Service"="ahcix86""ClassGUID"="{4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ahcix86]"Type"=dword:00000001"Start"=dword:00000000"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001"Tag"=dword:00000021"ImagePath"="system32\\drivers\\ahcix86.sys""Group"="SCSI Miniport"[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ahcix86\Parameters\PnpInterface]"5"=dword:00000001Goto BIOS, set AHCI. Reboot. Basically do the same thing as in XP.However: does ahcix86.sys support Windows 2000? Hello. New to the forum. I have been searching for many days trying to find a way to install the AHCI drivers post Windows XP/SP3 and I found this site. I want to use this method of trying to get the AHCI option enabled. I have a Biostar TA790GX128M V5.3 motherboard with the AMD SB750. This method looks pretty straight forward except I have one question. The regedit that need to be imported into the registry list it as REGEDITV4 and I am assuming that this means Version 4 of the Registry Editor. However, I have Version 5.1.2600.1106 of the registry editor. Can I still use the REGEDITV4 script and import the file using the newer version of the registry editor that I have? This would be the best way for me to get ACHI drivers loaded into my current XP installation. I want to use the AHCI instead of the Native IDE when I load Windows 7 Ultimate on my computer but I do not want to loose my Windows XP installation as there are too many files and folders that I want to keep, and some programs that I want to use Windows XP to run. I know that Windows 7 has the XP Emulation capability, but I would prefer to keep both my Windows XP/SP3 install that I have and also install the Windows 7 Ultimate. Under the current configuration, I have to go into BIOS and change things around to load Windows XP using the Native IDE mode and then when I want to run Windows 7 Ultimate, I need to change the BIOS to AHCI. Dumping Windows XP and doing a fresh install using the nLite method is not an option for me at this time. Thanks for your help and I am happy to have found this thread.