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From: andy on 6 Jun 2010 17:18
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:03:06 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"
<Nobody(a)NotMyISP.com> wrote:

>I installed Win7Pro on this machine with the SATA Controller in IDE mode
>and have been trying to get it going in AHCI mode: I've tried the
>official Microsoft method -- change msahci Start to 0, reboot and change
>BIOS setting from IDE to AHCI -- but it does not work. I get the colored
>"blobs," but then the machine reboots almost immediately and just keeps
>repeating that cycle until I change the BIOS setting again.
>
>I wondered whether updating the drivers would help, but I can't get them
>to update. The drivers on the CD that came with the mobo are later than
>ones the Windows installer installed, and I have downloaded later ones
>still from Asus, but Device Manager insists that I have the latest ones.
>
>Any suggestions?

Set SATA1-4 to AHCI.
Set SATA5-6 to IDE.
Connect disk to SATA5.
Boot to Windows.
Install AHCI driver.
Connect disk to SATA1.
Boot to Windows.

>
>Perce

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