Hi All,

I have a "chicken and the egg problem".

I installed XP with my BIOS set to IDE. I should have
had it set to AHCI and used an f6 disk to install the
Intel ICH9_10 driver. Oooops. (Ah Poop!)

XP will boot fine with BIOS set to IDE. I have
copied the ICH9_10 driver to my c: drive. I also now
have it copied to a floppy (f6) disk.

Problem: with XP booted with BIOS set to IDE,
I can not figure out how to install the ICH9_10 driver.
There are no bang marks in my device manager.

With my BIOS set to AHCI, I get the Blue Screen of
Death when XP boots up.

Anyone know a way around this?

Many thanks,
-T

If xp is up & running then you don't need F6 to install drivers for ICH 9_10
controller,however,the ICH 9_10 driver is intel matrix mgr,which is only for
a ICH 9_10 R The R has RAID capability,w/o the R then intel says to use
native windows drivers.If you do have RAID/SATA controller,then forget F6
& simply download the matrix utility,run the chipset installation utility
first.Also,
if you run IDE & SATA/RAID hds,then you must first set the BIOS for the 2 to
run together (advanced chipset),also,read the owners manual......


"ToddAndMargo" wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I have a "chicken and the egg problem".
>
> I installed XP with my BIOS set to IDE. I should have
> had it set to AHCI and used an f6 disk to install the
> Intel ICH9_10 driver. Oooops. (Ah Poop!)
>
> XP will boot fine with BIOS set to IDE. I have
> copied the ICH9_10 driver to my c: drive. I also now
> have it copied to a floppy (f6) disk.
>
> Problem: with XP booted with BIOS set to IDE,
> I can not figure out how to install the ICH9_10 driver.
> There are no bang marks in my device manager.
>
> With my BIOS set to AHCI, I get the Blue Screen of
> Death when XP boots up.
>
> Anyone know a way around this?
>
> Many thanks,
> -T
>

Andy wrote:
> On Sat, 23 May 2009 16:38:39 -0700, ToddAndMargo
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I have a "chicken and the egg problem".
>>
>> I installed XP with my BIOS set to IDE. I should have
>> had it set to AHCI and used an f6 disk to install the
>> Intel ICH9_10 driver. Oooops. (Ah Poop!)
>>
>> XP will boot fine with BIOS set to IDE. I have
>> copied the ICH9_10 driver to my c: drive. I also now
>> have it copied to a floppy (f6) disk.
>>
>> Problem: with XP booted with BIOS set to IDE,
>> I can not figure out how to install the ICH9_10 driver.
>> There are no bang marks in my device manager.
>>
>> With my BIOS set to AHCI, I get the Blue Screen of
>> Death when XP boots up.
>>
>> Anyone know a way around this?
>
> Do a repair installation.

Thank you. This seems like the easiest way. It will be
pretty quick too (~25 min) on an i7 motherboard.
-T