AHCI drivers for maximus V gene windows XP

[EmBoLa_be]

Sorry for the bad language since i am dutch and i am trying my best.

this build is for my mom and NO, she won't upgrade to 7 since she allready have a pc with 7 that she hates.

ive been trying for days trying to install drivers for ahci support for windows xp, tried nlite but i don't know what driver i need to select for this motherboard and i allready burned 5 dvd's and they ALL are the wrong drivers. or i might be doing something very wrong.
it has to be one of these since they are from asus download page.

and witch .inf do i need to select in nlite? iaAHCI.inf or iaStor.inf
and what driver do i need to select in nlite

"Intel(R) ICH7R/DH SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) ICH7M/MDH SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) ICH9M-E/M SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) ICH10D/DO SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) ICH10R SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) 5 Series 4 Port SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) 5 Series 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) Desktop/Workstation/Server Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) Mobile Express Chipset SATA AHCI Controller"
"Intel(R) 7 Series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller" i thought this was the one but it seems i was wrong.
"Intel(R) 7 Series Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller"

this motherboard dosn't support ide floppy disks.

Can someone give me a tutoria or directions on how to install ahci on xp, i don't care if i have to reinstall it 10 times since i allready did that many.

installing xp in ide mode is fine and i don't use the asmedia sata connectors isince they aren't recognised by the bios, strange since its the latest bios i think 1903. so i put the hdd in the intel controller and that works just fine in ide mode but when i switch to ahci in bios and install it just reboots when xp is almost installed so there must be some driver isseu.

i hope someone can answer this since i am at a total loss, did research on google for days and still can't make it to work? thank god that id did NOT installed my old ssd in this setup and yes i know xp dosn't support trim but there are software to do this.

[Nate152]

Hello EmBola.be

Welcome to the ROG forum.

I don't recall having to install any of that when setting up my board of course I was on win 7 then upgraded to 10, the only thing I install is the Lan driver, the chipset driver, the MEI driver and the usb 3.0 driver that's it, like you I have no need for the asmedia ports.


It looks like you may need to install more than one.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_xp-hardware/setup-ahci-under-win-xp/4a95e43...

Or how about just doing a windows 7 install and do the free upgrade to windows 10? Do you think she would like windows 10?

[EmBoLa_be]

thx for the response but the only facts that she still wants to use xp is when browsing folder she just have to place a pic in the folder and the folder would look like the pic, with w7 and newer its different, maybe i can find a picture to explain it. ha, found it,

thats the ONLY reason why she wants xp because she have a huge music collection all ripped cd's from her huge collection.
she hates this layout in newer windows:


these pics are just examples found on the web.