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ToddAndMargo
Andy said:Thank you. This seems like the easiest way. It will be
pretty quick too (~25 min) on an i7 motherboard.
-T
Hi All,
This is a follow up on the above post.
The install was fresh, I really had nothing to
loose except another 1/2 hour to do a repair
install of XP. So I figured I could get brave.
Here is what I did.
1) opened up my motherboards manual and looked
at the specificationsto see what kind of controller
I have: ICH10R
2) Booted XP. Opened the device manager and looked
for the hard drive controller. I found two of them:
a four port and a two port (makes sense, have six
SATA ports on my motherboard).
3) I then proceeded to do a force upgrade of these two
controllers to the ICH10R drivers on the F6 disk (also
on my hard drive as well). Windows did whine about
me replacing the drivers with the wrong drivers.
4) shutdown and rebooted into BIOS. Told my BIOS that
my controller was now AHCI (was IDE).
5) successfully booted back into Windows. BSOD all gone!
Happy camping returned.
Try this only at your own risk! Hope this helps someone
else. Thanks to all who gave me tips on this!
-T