93bh Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123238-why-do-i-have-to-change-to-ahci/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123238-why-do-i-have-to-change-to-ahci/#findComment-871687 Share on other sites More sharing options...
93bh Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 Is that hard? It must be tested including your witness. Show me the tutorial. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123238-why-do-i-have-to-change-to-ahci/#findComment-871689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
muitommy Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 what tutorial do you need?? what you need to do equal to what i was saying ... so i mean, there might be other problems if you get bluescreen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123238-why-do-i-have-to-change-to-ahci/#findComment-871698 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerkex'd Posted August 28, 2008 Share Posted August 28, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123238-why-do-i-have-to-change-to-ahci/#findComment-871706 Share on other sites More sharing options...
93bh Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123238-why-do-i-have-to-change-to-ahci/#findComment-871707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
93bh Posted August 28, 2008 Author Share Posted August 28, 2008 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/123238-why-do-i-have-to-change-to-ahci/#findComment-872046 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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