yeah! glad to hear that Rick ^_^It's no big deal really, but you should still be able to switch to AHCI now that you can boot into Win 7 doing this

Mine was already set at zero, tried to change the BIOS to ACHI mode but the system wouldn't boot. Reverted and evrything came back up ikay.From what I read in the reviews on that thread it doesn't make ahuge difference anyhow.Thanks anyhow DazzNow...lets see what this baby will do!Rick S.

Mine was already set at zero, tried to change the BIOS to ACHI mode but the system wouldn't boot. Reverted and evrything came back up ikay.From what I read in the reviews on that thread it doesn't make ahuge difference anyhow.Thanks anyhow DazzNow...lets see what this baby will do!Rick S.

I guess you would need to set the Start register to 3, reboot and then back to 0. Reboot into BIOS, set SATA to AHCI and it should then install the AHCI drivers.Just in case you want to try it, but it's not really necessary until you add an SSD.

yeah! glad to hear that Rick ^_^It's no big deal really, but you should still be able to switch to AHCI now that you can boot into Win 7 doing this

Thanks, may do it later.Rick S.

After reloading the OS onto my old XP drive I came across an a single page stuck in my ASUS Users Guide. It described the same problem and included a link to resolve. It had to do with EDI mode. Well, I tried it but couldn't get it to work but it made think. I rember someon here asking me if I had tried changing to IDE mode in the BIOS. Well I had but remembered that it also asked after making that change if I wanted Enhanced or Compatible Mode. I had left it on Enhanced.Soooooo, I went back into the BIOS switched the Boot device to my old Win7 OS and changed the IDE tag to Compatibilty mode and BINGO, Win7 loaded right up!!!!NEVER GIVE UP!!!!Now, what is the difference between AHCI mode vs the IDE/Compatible mode.Is it a big deal?ThanksRick S.

Damn! Why didn´t I remember that earlier???I myselfe found that sheet after I brought my PC away for repair. Sorry that I didn´t recall earlier but you did it yourselfe so no great loss (except some grey hair and cups of coffee, I suppose ).