swhockey98

his is going to be a long email, but here's ALL the troubleshooting I've tried to do and I still cannot Windows to work unless native SATA is disabled in the BIOS.

I originally had Windows Media Center edition on my laptop, I wanted to reformat it to Windows XP Pro with 1 partition (i created the recovery disks first before i did this). So the first thing i did was disable SATA in the BIOS . I pressed F6 to install the SATA controller drivers in the beginning of installing windows. It would then ask me to insert a disk labeled “Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver into drive A and press ENTER to continue. I cannot get beyond this step because I am not sure what this is talking about, I tried visiting this link:

http://www.intel.com/support/chipset.../CS-021701.htm

But that is an .exe after Windows is installed, I'm getting this screen before Windows is even installed.

It’s discussing RAID, and I only have one hard drive in my laptop. So the next thing I tried was disabling SATA in the BIOS, then reformatting w/o installing the SATA drivers and the windows installation went by fine but then when I was on the desktop I tried to re-enable SATA so my laptop hd would perform faster but then when the PC rebooted it blue-screened at the windows logo and would continue to do that until I disabled native SATA in the BIOS.

The last option I tried was enabling native SATA, then pressing F6 to install the drivers for reformatting, and I still received the blue screen prompting: “Insert the disk labeled: Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver into drive A”. Press ENTER when ready.

But note, if I enable native SATA and try reformatting and installing windows without pressing F6 the windows installation disk cannot locate my laptop hd.

Lastly, when I have SATA disabled in the BIOS, and i was at the windows desktop. I tried installing the DV5163CL Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver which is 17.6MB .exe which is I guess supposed to update your SATA driver controller but I got and error saying "incompatiable hardware."

So I’m not sure what’s going on here, perhaps there’s a tweak around this?

I have a HP DV5163CL laptop.


I'd appreciate any help, thanks!

edsartori

I'm having the same problem. I'm running with Sata Native mode disabled, does anyone solved it? Anyone ever tried to slipstream Intel Matrix Storage on WinXP install CD?

meanman

you will need to install the drivers for your sata drive i yous via if you dont install them you will get the bod screen

edsartori

I can't install them on windows with SATA native mode disabled on BIOS (the driver does not find the hardware) and if I enable the native mode, windows does not find the disk on installation or crashes (blue screen) during the boot.