Silly question but did you enable the registry key with a 1 or 0? Usually
enabling is a 1 but in this case enabling needs a 0 value. Also you might
see what driver is currently installed for the HDD controller. Also check
for the presence of system32\drivers\msahci.sys.
"Sebastian Vega" <nospam@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hello!
> I bought a PC with Vista Home Premium preinstalled and an intel G33
> chipset.
> However, SATA mode in BIOS was set to IDE. If I set it to AHCI or RAID, I
> would get a BSOD.
> So I enabled AHCI driver in Vista in the registry, with no success. I also
> tried installing intel Matrix drivers, but the installer says my system
> does not meet minimum requirements.
> So what do I have to do now to enable AHCI/RAID mode on an installed
> system?
> Thanks
> Sebastian
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