Installing SATA drivers for AHCI mode

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sergeycentral · #1 Post by **sergeycentral** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:20 pm

I wanted a fresh install of windows from OEM disk... none of that pre load garbage...

In order to do this, to reformat the disk, I had to set the SATA in the BIOS to compatibility mode.. otherwise you get the blue screen of death and its not a pretty picture...

So everything goes well.. as well as getting rid of the 5gb EISA Utilities partition... windows installed, all drivers installed.. then the SATA drivers installed, called "Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver"

at this point I think im supposed to switch back to AHCI mode in the BIOS for the SATA.. but when I do... blue screen on windows launch.

when im in compatibility mode now however, the device "Intel 82801GMB/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller - 27C4" is installed under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. But, there is an uninstalled unknow device that's located on "Intel 82801GMB (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Controller - 27B9". when I do an update driver on it, it says no new hardware has been detected.. but this must be a driver something to do with the SATA..

ThinkVantage System Update says Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver has been installed..

this is on a T60p 2007-C8U

any suggestions?

kimx · #2 Post by **kimx** » Mon May 22, 2006 4:57 pm

Follow the instruktions on this page:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-62909

That was what I did and it worked.

sergeycentral · #3 Post by **sergeycentral** » Mon May 22, 2006 7:55 pm

ok sweet the instructiuons there helped a little bit... basically i had to uninstall my current drivers / restart / install drivers / restart / shut down / restart / update drivers / restart / then it worked.. crazy!! hopefully driver support will be even better in vista..

e.g. when installing drivers from a spesific location. why cant it search all sub-directories as well.. dumb

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what a nightmare must it be to install all the drivers for linux

btw, i still get unknow device "PCI Device" what in the world is that?

kimx · #4 Post by **kimx** » Tue May 23, 2006 4:15 am

Just a note, It takes a maksimun of five minuts to get most of the drivers installed in ubuntu. The only thing you need to do yourself is the WLAN card.

The unknow PCI-device could e many things, the fingerprint reader, security chip and so on, try to find out if your missing something that you laptop should have.

Chrispy · #5 Post by **Chrispy** » Fri Feb 16, 2007 11:55 pm

I just did a clean install of Vista x64 on my T60 and I cannot find the matrix driver to be able to use my HDD in AHCI mode. Does anyone know where I can find it?

kowercje · #6 Post by **kowercje** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 12:50 am

sergeycentral wrote: btw, i still get unknow device "PCI Device" what in the world is that?

Most likely that is the IBM PM device. Had me scratching my head for awhile as well.

BadAndy · #7 Post by **BadAndy** » Mon Feb 19, 2007 3:12 pm

I got rid of the PCI Device after running the Atmel TPM package.

Installing SATA drivers for AHCI mode

Installing SATA drivers for AHCI mode

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