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Clean install of Vista with AHCI on 1420
I did a search on AHCI here and it seems people had to load the drivers in order to reinstall/install Vista on their laptop. I did a clean install of Vista without loading any drivers. It installed fine and in Device Manager it has the Intel ICH8M SATA AHCI Controller. Does that mean it installed correctly? I always thought you had to load the drivers prior to installing Vista.
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Does this mean Vista automatically loads ahci drivers during install?
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Can anyone help?
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Anyone? I don't want to install all my apps and fix my settings and then find out I didn't install it properly.
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The AHCI drivers must be loaded only for XP Installation and for Vista I suppose it already has them.... Vista comes with a huge native driver base....
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The AHCI drivers must be loaded only for XP Installation and for Vista I suppose it already has them.... Vista comes with a huge native driver base....
Do I still need to install the AHCI drivers from support.dell.com?
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No. If you were able to get Vista onto your hard drive, you already have the drivers you need. They would have been included on your restore CD.
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If you have the latest AHCI drivers then it is well and good to install them.... Or if you are cool with what you have already then leave it as such :)
But for XP you need to install the AHCI drivers to make the hard disk work in SATA...
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The AHCI drivers must be loaded only for XP Installation and for Vista I suppose it already has them.... Vista comes with a huge native driver base....
Vista DOES NOT have them!
You MUST install this:
http://support.dell.com/support/down...&fileid=205611
That is for all x86 OS's from Win2k to Vista...
x64 version is at a different link, for x64 XP and Vista:
http://support.us.dell.com/support/d...&fileid=205616
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Vista DOES NOT have them!
You MUST install this:
http://support.dell.com/support/down...&fileid=205611
That is for all x86 OS's from Win2k to Vista...
x64 version is at a different link, for x64 XP and Vista:
http://support.us.dell.com/support/d...&fileid=205616
I installed Vista without loading those drivers and it automatically loaded Intel AHCI drivers.