

ħ) In Device Manager, right-click the IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers/Intel ® 82801 GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller and select 'Update Driver'.Ĩ) Follow these steps to complete the Hardware Update Wizard:Ī. Note : You can use the steps 4 & 5 on a Desktop system having floppy drive and then transfer those files to a CD-R.Ħ) Download and run the Intel Chipset Installation Utility for ICH7, SoftPaq SP32781, from. The files will be located on this floppy.ĥ) These files should be located on the floppy disk. Run sp32478 this will create a floppy disk. You can install SATA drivers on a Retail OS by following these steps:ġ) Enter F10 Setup, and go to System Configuration/Device Configurations/SATA Native ModeĢ) Install Windows XP Service Pack 2 in whatever manner is typical for your organization.ģ) Download the Intel SATA AHCI Controller Driver, SoftPaq SP32478.exe, from 4) Extract all the files from the SoftPaq.

If you want to install the SATA driver, then you need one external floppy driver and then follow the below steps: But you should enable SATA support in BIOS after completing the installation.

Now it will allow you to install the XP OS without any issue. Choose Yes for "Save configuration changes and exit now". Select "Disable" for the "SATA Native Support" item.ĥ. Press the F10 key when the "HP Invent" logo appears on the screen. Here are the steps to disable then steps:Ģ. One is to disable the SATA support in BIOS. Here is how I did it.įor this issue, we have 2 alternate solutions. Right now I have SATA disabled in the bios and the laptop is running great but I'd like to get SATA working properly. Especially since I just used the same method about a month ago. Under that I have Primary IDE Channel and Secondary IDE Channel listed. If I look in My Device Manager under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers I see listed Intel(R) 82801 GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller - 27C4. If I do, I get a blue screen and the computer just keeps on restarting coming back to the screen that gives you the option to Start Windows Normally. Now after everything is reloaded including all drivers from Compaq's website I can no longer reenable sata in the bios. I used this method once before because the same message about the Storage Manager driver popped up. I didn't have this driver nor could I find it so I decided to reformat again but this time I disabled Sata in the bios. That seemed to work until another message popped up a bit later and said insert the Intel Matrix Storage Manager driver into floppy drive A.

I tried loading the Sata driver during the reload by hitting the F6 button. I had to reload Windows XP Home on a Compaq V6105NR laptop with a new SATA hard drive.
