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    5315 1.43 bios and XP...

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by mooler, Jul 24, 2008.

  1. mooler

    mooler Notebook Consultant

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    I just noticed that after installing updating to 1.43 sata drivers were automatically installed and I now have SATA support with XP Pro. I got this working previously without slipstreaming the drivers, but since then I had reinstalled and did not bother to do the workarounds required to install sata drivers post XP install. Anybody else have this welcomed suprise after updating to v1.43 from 1.42
     
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  2. ATG

    ATG 2x4 Super Moderator

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    Hmm normally, the BIOS update should not have nothing to do in this case...the SATA problem is caused by XP(missing drivers) not by the BIOS, therefore a BIOS update cannot solve this problem...this is really strange.
     
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  3. mooler

    mooler Notebook Consultant

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    i just updated the BIOS and of course it reverted to AHCI from IDE and when XP loaded I had new device drivers installed and I am now using SATA. No BSOD...no errors...nothing. Just perfectly installed drivers. I know its weird and outside the box, but A nice surprise is better than no surprise. :)
     
    mooler, Jul 25, 2008
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  4. bigozone

    bigozone JellyRoll touring now

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    i bet the SP3 update installed the SATA AHCI driver...

    but i thought the DATA on the HDD was in a different format due to the conversion that took place durring the install?

    oh well... nice to be proved wrong (in this case anyway)

    congrats
     
    bigozone, Jul 25, 2008
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