AHCI w/ Inspiron 1520 on XP / Problems with Intel Matrix Storage Software

Here's my complete specs just in case:

Intel® Core™ 2 Duo T7500 (4MB cache/2.2GHz/800Mhz FSB), English
3GB DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz (1GB x 2GB)
256MB NVIDIA ®GeForce™8600M GT
160G 7200RPM SATA HDD
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium Edition, English
Integrated 10/100 Network Card and Modem
8X CD/DVD Burner (DVD+/-RW) with double-layer DVD+R write capability
Integrated Sound Blaster Audigy HD Software Edition
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini-Card
Integrated 2.0M Pixel Webcam
Dell Wireless 355 Bluetooth Internal (2.0 + Enhanced Data Rate)

Now I know this ain't new, but I've been looking everywhere and still no solution to my problem. I recently reformatted my hdd with Windows Xp Home Edition (Fully legal, used cd n serial from my desktop) so I had to disable the AHCI mode and flash module (duh). So now, everything is installed, drivers, programs, my windows is ready to go. I've tried to installed the Intel Matrix Storage Manager, everytime I try a message pops-up saying "This computer does not mjeet the minimum requirements for installing this software". What else am I missing? I tried looking in the system requirements of the software:


2. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
************************************************************

1. The system must contain an Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo or
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme or Intel(R) Pentium(R) Processor
or Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor and one of the following
Intel products:

- Intel(R) 82801IR/IO I/O Controller Hub (ICH9R)
- Intel(R) 82801HEM I/O Controller Hub (ICH8ME)
- Intel(R) 82801HBM I/O Controller Hub (ICH8M)
- Intel(R) 82801HR/HH/HO I/O Controller Hub (ICH8R)
- Intel(R) 631xESB/632xESB I/O Controller Hub (631xESB/632xESB)
- Intel(R) 82801GHM I/O Controller Hub (ICH7MR)
- Intel(R) 82801GBM I/O Controller Hub (ICH7M)
- Intel(R) 82801GR I/O Controller Hub (ICH7R)
- Intel(R) 82801GH I/O Controller Hub (ICH7DH)

***************I think I have one of em*****************



2. The system must be running on one of the following
operating systems:
- Microsoft* Vista*
- Microsoft* Vista* x64 Edition (NOTE 1)
- Microsoft* Windows* XP Home Edition
- Microsoft* Windows* XP Professional
- Microsoft* Windows* XP x64 Edition (NOTE 1)
- Microsoft* Windows* 2000 Advanced Server
- Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003
- Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003,
Web x64 Edition (NOTE 1)
- Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003,
Standard x64 Edition (NOTE 1)
- Microsoft* Windows* Server 2003,
Enterprise x64 Edition (NOTE 1)
- Microsoft* Windows* Media Center Edition

NOTE 1: If the system is running Windows* 64-bit version,
the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager driver supporting
64-bit should be used.

3. The following operating systems are not supported:

Any version of the following Microsoft operating systems:
- MS-DOS
- Windows 3.1
- Windows NT 3.51
- Windows 95
- Windows 98
- Windows Millennium Edition (Me)
- Windows NT 4.0
- Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
- Windows 2000 Professional

Any version of the following operating systems:
- Linux
- UNIX
- BeOS
- MacOS
- OS/2

********* I'm running on a Genuine Windows XP Home Edition *********

4. The system should contain at least the minimum system
memory required by the operating system.

******* 3 GBs of DEATH *******

5. The 'Intel(R) Chipset Software Installation Utility'
must be installed prior to installing the
Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager.


****** Which where's my other problem, where the hell do I find that? I downloaded a version for chipset series 900 (mines a gm965) and installed it, and still have the same problem with the matrix storage manager. Can anyone help me??? Pleeeasssseeee! I beeeggg youu!!

 

Your XP CD didn't have SATA drivers on it and SATA is not enabled in your BIOS (if you haven't touched anything yet). You'll need to slipstream the drivers onto your CD (nlite) and reinstall Windows.

Search for "slipstream" for help. I saw a thread from some guy that got it working without having to reinstall Windows, so check that thread out.

Good luck.