Serial ATA advanced host interface leads to XP blue screen phenomenon

The author scoured a ThinkPad SL500 (27466AC) notebook from the Internet, comes with Vista system, the appearance and quality are good, the only shortcoming is that the memory is only 1GB, in Vista The game is not smooth enough, so I plan to change Vista to WinXP system. But whether it is genuine or pirated WinXP SP2 installation disk, there is always a blue screen phenomenon during installation. After some research, it was found that the AHCI (Serial ATA Advanced Host Interface) mode affects the installation. Finally, the author successfully installed the WinXP system in the following way, and can also open the AHCI mode to make the hard disk more efficient.

Close AHCI, no roadblocks on the road.
AHCI is an interface standard jointly developed by many companies including Intel. It can get higher signal transmission speed and improve hard disk efficiency by about 30%. In general, only SATAII hard drives and newer (such as Intel ICH7R) motherboard south bridge chips can work together to support this feature. The ThinkPad SL500 uses the Intel PM45 chipset with a 160G SATAII hard drive, so the AHCI mode is enabled by default when the factory is shipped, and the earlier WinXP system disk generally does not have the “AHCI” drive, which leads to the “blue screen event”. . The author's notebook can be used normally in the Vista system, and the hardware should have no problem. Reboot and press “ld1;F1” to enter the BIOS and find that the “SATA Controller Mode Option” item is set to “AHCI” (Figure 1), which is the advanced serial ATA function. Set this item to “Compatibility”, press “F10” save and exit, and then use the Ghost version of the CD to install the system, you can successfully complete.

Re-opening AHCI, speeding up hard disk read and write efficiency
Since the AHCI mode is turned on, the performance is greatly improved. Of course, the performance of the whole machine should be improved. But the author tried to open the AHCI mode after installing the system, and a blue screen appeared. Then enter the system in the "Compatibility" mode, log in to Lenovo's official website (select the serial number in the Lenovo website, enter the serial number, you can intelligently download the relevant driver), download the Intel motherboard driver (Vista/WinXP) decompression And install, then download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver (WinXP), extract and find "install.cmd" in "C:\\DRIVERS\\WIN\\IMSM\\PREPARE"; double-click to install (install the system with AHCI mode after installation) It won't be blue screen). Restart the computer, press the “F1” key to enter the BIOS, enter “Serial ATA (SATA)” in the “Config Settings” interface (Figure 2), change the original “Compatibility” to “AHCI”, press & nbsp; F10 & rdquo; save exit, restart, after entering the WinXP system, prompted to find new hardware, click “ no, don't do now, press “ next & rdquo; select “ install from the specified location & rdquo; The path points to "C:\\DRIVERS\\WIN\\IMSM”, press “Next” Install. At this point, the hard disk AHCI mode was finally successfully enabled in the WinXP system.
Tip: In the new version of WinXP SP3 genuine CD and some newer clone GHOST system disk has integrated SATA driver, press F6 to load the driver to install WinXP system when installing the system, there will be no blue screen phenomenon. If it is a motherboard of a newer AMD chip (such as AMD790G chip).