Problem w drivers when reinstall XP Pro SP2 w SATA for Dell Vostro

[bearspa]

Hi all:

My wife has a 3-year old Vostro 1500 running Xp Pro, Sp3, and it was
somewhat messed up (wouldn't accept Windows updates, the Firewall stopped
working, and couldn't be turned on even with administrative tools, stopped
being accessible on the network, etc.). So, I backed up everything 3 times,
including a drive image, and wanted to reinstall XP using the Dell XP SP2
disk.

I removed the Dell Mediacenter partition, but left the first (small)
partition. I reformatted the remaining partition as NTFS, and installed XP.
Despite the fact that the Dell disk contained the SATA drivers, when I looked
in Device Manager, I found that the HD was seen as an IDE drive, and not a
SATA drive.

After researching this issue on the Internet, I ended up using the
information I found on this site to slipstream the OS from the SP2 disk with
the SATA driver. Using nLite, I added the file "iaahci.inf" from the Dell
driver R154200. nLite would only let me add this one file, although there
was also another called"iastor.inf" in R154200.

The installation went smoothly, I added the Dell drivers from the drivers
disk, and things seem to be working fine, although I haven't checked all the
components. However, I noticed a change in Device Manager. The old Device
Manager showed the following information:

,

while the new one shows:

As you can probably tell, there are 2 issues that concern me:

First, there were 2 Primary IDE channels, and now there is only one. Should
I be concerned, and, if so, how do I fix it?

Secondly, the first entry used to be "Intel(R) ICH8M 3 port Serial ATA
Storage Controller - 2828", and is now "Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI
Controller". Again, could this be a problem, and how do I fix it?

I have found Intel drivers that seem to be appropriate for the ICH8M 3 port
on the Internet, but don't know if I should also include them if I have to do
a new slipstream. I must confess that when it comes to chipsets, their
drivers, etc., I have a (somewhat intelligent?) monkey-see-monkey-do approach.

Thanks in advance for any help, particularly, as a friend reminded me today
of a saying attributed to Confucious:

There are few rewards but many disadvantages to fixing/upgrading
a wife's computer​

 

[bearspa]

Sorry, after posting this I realized that the site does not take HTML.
However, the statement below the pictures describes the difference between
the old and the new.

I should also add, in case this is relevant, that when nLite had asked me
which textmode driver to pick, I selected the 2 that had “ICH8m†in their
names, i.e, “Intel(R) 82801HEM SATA RAID Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E)†and
“Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller (Mobile ICH8M-E/m)â€.

Hi all:

My wife has a 3-year old Vostro 1500 running Xp Pro, Sp3, and it was
somewhat messed up (wouldn't accept Windows updates, the Firewall stopped
working, and couldn't be turned on even with administrative tools, stopped
being accessible on the network, etc.). So, I backed up everything 3 times,
including a drive image, and wanted to reinstall XP using the Dell XP SP2
disk.

I removed the Dell Mediacenter partition, but left the first (small)
partition. I reformatted the remaining partition as NTFS, and installed XP.
Despite the fact that the Dell disk contained the SATA drivers, when I looked
in Device Manager, I found that the HD was seen as an IDE drive, and not a
SATA drive.

After researching this issue on the Internet, I ended up using the
information I found on this site to slipstream the OS from the SP2 disk with
the SATA driver. Using nLite, I added the file "iaahci.inf" from the Dell
driver R154200. nLite would only let me add this one file, although there
was also another called"iastor.inf" in R154200.

The installation went smoothly, I added the Dell drivers from the drivers
disk, and things seem to be working fine, although I haven't checked all the
components. However, I noticed a change in Device Manager. The old Device
Manager showed the following information:

,

while the new one shows:

As you can probably tell, there are 2 issues that concern me:

First, there were 2 Primary IDE channels, and now there is only one. Should
I be concerned, and, if so, how do I fix it?

Secondly, the first entry used to be "Intel(R) ICH8M 3 port Serial ATA
Storage Controller - 2828", and is now "Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI
Controller". Again, could this be a problem, and how do I fix it?

I have found Intel drivers that seem to be appropriate for the ICH8M 3 port
on the Internet, but don't know if I should also include them if I have to do
a new slipstream. I must confess that when it comes to chipsets, their
drivers, etc., I have a (somewhat intelligent?) monkey-see-monkey-do approach.

Thanks in advance for any help, particularly, as a friend reminded me today
of a saying attributed to Confucious:

There are few rewards but many disadvantages to fixing/upgrading
a wife's computer​

 

[smlunatick]

Hi all:

My wife has a 3-year old Vostro 1500 running Xp Pro, Sp3, and it was
somewhat messed up (wouldn't accept Windows updates, the Firewall stopped
working, and couldn't be turned on even with administrative tools, stopped
being accessible on the network, etc.).  So, I backed up everything 3 times,
including a drive image, and wanted to reinstall XP using the Dell XP SP2
disk.  

I removed the Dell Mediacenter partition, but left the first (small)
partition.  I reformatted the remaining partition as NTFS, and installed XP.  
Despite the fact that the Dell disk contained the SATA drivers, when I looked
in Device Manager, I found that the HD was seen as an IDE drive, and not a
SATA drive.

After researching this issue on the Internet, I ended up using the
information I found on this site to slipstream the OS from the SP2 disk with
the SATA driver.  Using nLite, I added the file "iaahci.inf"  from the Dell
driver R154200.  nLite would only let me add this one file, although there
was also another called"iastor.inf" in R154200.

The installation went smoothly, I added the Dell drivers from the drivers
disk, and things seem to be working fine, although I haven't checked all the
components.  However, I noticed a change in Device Manager.  The old Device
Manager showed the following information:

,

while the new one shows:

As you can probably tell, there are 2 issues that concern me:

First, there were 2 Primary IDE channels, and now there is only one.  Should
I be concerned, and, if so, how do I fix it?

Secondly, the first entry used to be "Intel(R) ICH8M 3 port Serial ATA
Storage Controller - 2828", and is now "Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI
Controller".  Again, could this be a problem, and how do I fix it?

I have found Intel drivers that seem to be appropriate for the ICH8M 3 port
on the Internet, but don't know if I should also include them if I have to do
a new slipstream.  I must confess that when it comes to chipsets, their
drivers, etc., I have a (somewhat intelligent?) monkey-see-monkey-do approach.

Thanks in advance for any help, particularly, as a friend reminded me today
of a saying attributed to Confucious:

There are few rewards but many disadvantages to fixing/upgrading
a wife's computer​

You need to also understand that XP does not natively use SATA
drivers. Because of this reasoning, most PC makers also include an
"IDE" emulation with the motherboard SATA port settings. By default,
when a PC is shipped with XP, these SATA ports would possibly be set
to "IDE" emulation mode.

Check you BIOS.

 

[Gis Bun]

Integrate SP3 into the install disk and recreate the boot. SP3 supports SATA.
Alternatively is download the drivers to a floppy or USB key [Dell provides
into on this somewhere on their site]. At the installation, hit the F6 key
when mentioned at the bottom of the screen and follow directions.

Hi all:

My wife has a 3-year old Vostro 1500 running Xp Pro, Sp3, and it was
somewhat messed up (wouldn't accept Windows updates, the Firewall stopped
working, and couldn't be turned on even with administrative tools, stopped
being accessible on the network, etc.). So, I backed up everything 3 times,
including a drive image, and wanted to reinstall XP using the Dell XP SP2
disk.

I removed the Dell Mediacenter partition, but left the first (small)
partition. I reformatted the remaining partition as NTFS, and installed XP.
Despite the fact that the Dell disk contained the SATA drivers, when I looked
in Device Manager, I found that the HD was seen as an IDE drive, and not a
SATA drive.

After researching this issue on the Internet, I ended up using the
information I found on this site to slipstream the OS from the SP2 disk with
the SATA driver. Using nLite, I added the file "iaahci.inf" from the Dell
driver R154200. nLite would only let me add this one file, although there
was also another called"iastor.inf" in R154200.

The installation went smoothly, I added the Dell drivers from the drivers
disk, and things seem to be working fine, although I haven't checked all the
components. However, I noticed a change in Device Manager. The old Device
Manager showed the following information:

,

while the new one shows:

As you can probably tell, there are 2 issues that concern me:

First, there were 2 Primary IDE channels, and now there is only one. Should
I be concerned, and, if so, how do I fix it?

Secondly, the first entry used to be "Intel(R) ICH8M 3 port Serial ATA
Storage Controller - 2828", and is now "Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI
Controller". Again, could this be a problem, and how do I fix it?

I have found Intel drivers that seem to be appropriate for the ICH8M 3 port
on the Internet, but don't know if I should also include them if I have to do
a new slipstream. I must confess that when it comes to chipsets, their
drivers, etc., I have a (somewhat intelligent?) monkey-see-monkey-do approach.

Thanks in advance for any help, particularly, as a friend reminded me today
of a saying attributed to Confucious:

There are few rewards but many disadvantages to fixing/upgrading
a wife's computer​

 

[smlunatick]

Integrate SP3 into the install disk and recreate the boot. SP3 supports SATA.
Alternatively is download the drivers to a floppy or USB key [Dell provides
into on this somewhere on their site]. At the installation, hit the F6 key
when mentioned at the bottom of the screen and follow directions.

Hi all:

My wife has a 3-year old Vostro 1500 running Xp Pro, Sp3, and it was
somewhat messed up (wouldn't accept Windows updates, the Firewall stopped
working, and couldn't be turned on even with administrative tools, stopped
being accessible on the network, etc.).  So, I backed up everything 3times,
including a drive image, and wanted to reinstall XP using the Dell XP SP2
disk.  

I removed the Dell Mediacenter partition, but left the first (small)
partition.  I reformatted the remaining partition as NTFS, and installed XP.  
Despite the fact that the Dell disk contained the SATA drivers, when I looked
in Device Manager, I found that the HD was seen as an IDE drive, and not a
SATA drive.

After researching this issue on the Internet, I ended up using the
information I found on this site to slipstream the OS from the SP2 diskwith
the SATA driver.  Using nLite, I added the file "iaahci.inf"  from the Dell
driver R154200.  nLite would only let me add this one file, although there
was also another called"iastor.inf" in R154200.

The installation went smoothly, I added the Dell drivers from the drivers
disk, and things seem to be working fine, although I haven't checked all the
components.  However, I noticed a change in Device Manager.  The old Device
Manager showed the following information:

,

while the new one shows:

As you can probably tell, there are 2 issues that concern me:

First, there were 2 Primary IDE channels, and now there is only one.  Should
I be concerned, and, if so, how do I fix it?

Secondly, the first entry used to be "Intel(R) ICH8M 3 port Serial ATA
Storage Controller - 2828", and is now "Intel(R) 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI
Controller".  Again, could this be a problem, and how do I fix it?

I have found Intel drivers that seem to be appropriate for the ICH8M 3 port
on the Internet, but don't know if I should also include them if I haveto do
a new slipstream.  I must confess that when it comes to chipsets, their
drivers, etc., I have a (somewhat intelligent?) monkey-see-monkey-do approach.

Thanks in advance for any help, particularly, as a friend reminded me today
of a saying attributed to Confucious:

There are few rewards but many disadvantages to fixing/upgrading
a wife's computer​

Dell as well as most "branded" OEM PC makers do not provide a true XP
install CD. They only provide a "recovery" image (aka Disk image)
from the time when the PC left their "assembly" factory. These
recovery image can not normally have any service pack (SP) integrated
(aka "slipstream") into them.