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Why do I have to change to AHCI?


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Is that really important? :(

 

I'm going to dual boot with Windows Vista and Mac Leopard. AHCI can give Vista a Blue Screen of Death.

I know there are fix for Windows but it will take very hard time to change it to AHCI. I don't want to reinstall Vista.

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the most meaningful point to use AHCI, is NCQ.

NCQ can improve your disk performance, and life of your disk.

 

Vista can recognise AHCI mode correctly without reinstall,

in my knowledge, blue screen of death have nothing to do with AHCI ..

if you're using legacy IDE mode originally,

what you need to do is just change the mode to AHCI in bios,

then go in Vista and install Intel Matrix Storage,

everything will do just fine.

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On motherboards with Intel ICHxR southbridge, RAID implies NCQ.

 

So if the controller is set to RAID mode in the BIOS already, don't change anything.

 

Of course there's no telling if this applies to your particular motherboard (you failed to say).

 

So look up your SATA/RAID controller specs and read.

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Oh nevermind.

 

First, read it in wiki. [link]

 

Then, found the link. [link]

 

 

I read more about it in Tom's Hardware. [link] (If it doesn't load, keep refreshing until it appear)

They say it works with vista by fixing the registry.

 

I'll try it later.

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I follow this link.

 

Then I open with regedit. I check that it still there, I haven't change it. Maybe from Windows Vista SP1 update.

 

When I get into BIOS, I set it as AHCI. Now there is no problem with Vista.

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