My friend, it works 100%, it's new Vertex 3 S3, just arrived at me from OCZ, unused, and i installed on it Win XP prof. SP3, but have to set in BIOS SATA as IDE, to be able install Win XP prof. SP3 on ti, cause SATA AHCI drivers didn't want to install at installation process of Win XP prof. SP3 So, it works 100%, and it's bootable, i run now Win XP prof. SP3 x86 on it, but with SATA as IDE mode in BIOS. It wasn't used anywhere, before 5-7 days i installed it in my Desktop machine, on my MB Asus P5Q SE2 with P45+ICH10 chipset. I have OCZ toolbox for OCZ SSDs tools, and it recognizes my new Vertex S3 Sata 3, cause i had to align parition before installing Win XP, cause XP doesn't have built-in tool like Win7 for align parititon. http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?105168-NEW!!-OCZ-Bootable-Toolbox-PC-Edition-%28REBUILD%29&p=756554&viewfull=1#post756554 Partition created and aligned, installed Win XP prof. SP3 x86, but only in SATA as IDE, in SATA as AHCI, with your drivers installation didn't install SATA AHCI drivers for ICH10 ...