[bmwk75]

cdob, on 08 March 2012 - 04:03 PM, said:

bmwk75, on 07 March 2012 - 04:54 AM, said:

The installation of Windows 7 with bios setting Sata1-6 AHCI, Sata 5-6 IDE; or Sata 1-6 AHCI went all right. After boot the drives were recognised and installed. The program CrystalDiskInfo showed all drives and their temperature.

Did you add AMD AHCI drivers to Windows 7?
Windows default driver msahci.sys does transfer S.M.A.R.T data.

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For XP I tried the installation of the AHCI drivers ... AMD AHCI Driver V3.2.1540.35
However; CrystalDiskInfo doesn’t show disks and their temperature

Driver ahcix86.sys 3.1.1540.127 dosn't transfer S.M.A.R.T data.
http://sourceforge.n...msg_id=27817123
No idea about V3.2.1540.35

Sorry for not answering your question

For Windows 7 I used no extra AMD drivers; so the drivers are 7 drivers.

[bmwk75]

Fernando 1, on 09 March 2012 - 04:05 AM, said:

@ bmwk75:
I repeat tcdob's earlier question, which you didn't answer yet:
Which AHCI driver (the in-box msahci.sys or the AMD one) do/did you use while running Windows 7?

bmwk75, on 09 March 2012 - 02:47 AM, said:

dstk suggested driver V3.3.1540.26, which I couldn’t find.

See below.

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Cdob says that some drivers do not transfer SMART data.
Is a workaround possible (fernando1)?

Obviously none of the AMD AHCI/RAID drivers do support the S.M.A.R.T. data while running Windows XP. If this should be true, there is no workaround. At least it will be your decision, if you want a better performance (running the SATA Controllers in AHCI mode, but without S.M.A.R.T. data) or a continuous monitoring of the hdd S.M.A.R.T. values.

@ all:
Here are the requested download links to the newest 32/64bit AMD SBxxx textmode drivers dated 11/17/2011, which have been modified by me yesterday to make them usable with (hopefully) all AMD Southbridges from SB6xx up:
>32bit AMD SBxxx textmode driver v3.3.1540.26 for Windows XP mod by Fernando<
>64bit AMD SBxxx textmode driver v3.3.1540.26 for Windows XP x64 mod by Fernando<

Good luck!

Regards
Fernando

Thank you for your help Fernando. I give a thought.

[dstk]

Thanks Fernando. I try to tell the result.

[yescool2002]

I used this .REG

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#VEN_1002&DEV_4391]
"Service"="ahcix86"
"ClassGUID"="{4D36E97B-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ahcix86]
"Type"=dword:00000001
"Start"=dword:00000000
"Group"="SCSI miniport"
"ErrorControl"=dword:00000001
"ImagePath"="system32\\drivers\\ahcix86.sys"
"tag"=dword:00000019
"DisplayName"="ATI AHCI Compatible RAID Controller"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ahcix86\Parameters\PnpInterface]
"5"=dword:0x00000001

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ahcix86\Settings\CAM]
"EnableALPEDisableHotplug"=dword:0
"EnableCCC"=dword:1
"CCCTimeoutValue"=dword:10
"CCCCompletionValue"=dword:32
"NCQEnableDiskIDBits"=dword:0
"EnableHIPM"=dword:0
"EnableDIPM"=dword:0

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ahcix86\Enum]
"0"="PCI\\VEN_1002&DEV_4391&SUBSYS_B0021458&REV_00\\3&61aaa01&0&88"
"Count"=dword:00000001
"NextInstance"=dword:00000001

and copied the AHCI drivers that I got from ASUS.com to the system32/drivers folder, reboot, changed the BIOS SETUP to AHCI and got it working
So no need to slisptream on my XP32 system on my ASUS M3A78-EM, just added that to REG and the official drivers to system32/drivers

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

Welcome to MSFN.
It is a known approach (see post #9 on page 1), I've done it too and I'm happy to know it worked for you. It would be nice if you could upload the .reg file, as copying from the forum post sometimes messes with the lines and spaces. I also see additional options in this code that can be discussed.

Edit: this http://www.askvg.com...alling-windows/ is the general principle
Cheers

This post has been edited by Sp0iLedBrAt: 02 April 2012 - 02:56 PM

[yescool2002]

Hello
Let´s see if this works

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