AHCI on Southbridge SB600 - slow boot up in XP

[Guest Jerry]

I am using winxp professional SP3 in my PC with the following configuration:

AMD 5000+ with 2G ram

Seagate 250G harddrive in my mobo ASUS M2A-VM HDMI bios 1501

 

I changed the setting in the southbridge from IDE to AHCI according to the

following link:

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080302172255000&board_id=1&model=M2A-VM+HDMI&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

 

Everything is ok and the performance is improved except winxp stops for

about 10 second when booting up which is same as described as the following

link:

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/248043-30-sata2-problems-booting

 

I have tried different version of ahcix86.sys (driver for AHCI), but without

improvement for the above scenario. At present, the version of my ahcix86

is 2.5.1540.39

 

Anyone has encountered the problem and any solution to solve it?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Jerry Wong

http://www.geocities.com/jerrywong.geo

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But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to

new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: AHCI on Southbridge SB600 - slow boot up in XP

 

>I am using winxp professional SP3 in my PC with the following configuration:

>AMD 5000+ with 2G ram

>Seagate 250G harddrive in my mobo ASUS M2A-VM HDMI bios 1501

>

>I changed the setting in the southbridge from IDE to AHCI according to the

>following link:

>http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080302172255000&board_id=1&model=M2A-VM+HDMI&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

>

>Everything is ok and the performance is improved except winxp stops for

>about 10 second when booting up which is same as described as the following

>link:

>http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/248043-30-sata2-problems-booting

>

>I have tried different version of ahcix86.sys (driver for AHCI), but without

>improvement for the above scenario. At present, the version of my ahcix86

>is 2.5.1540.39

>

>Anyone has encountered the problem and any solution to solve it?

>

>Thanks in advance.

>

>Jerry Wong

>http://www.geocities.com/jerrywong.geo

>¦ý§Ú­Ì·Ó¥LªºÀ³³\¡B ¬ß±æ·s¤Ñ·s¦a¡A¦³¸q©~¦b¨ä¤¤¡C(©¼«á3:13)

>But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to

>new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)

 

As you've stated that when changing over to AHCI from IDE causes a

pause at boot, it could be BIOS related since that is the only thing

that changed when you experience the issue. I see no reason that you

shouldn't be at the current BIOS (2101) to see if it helps you any or

decreases this pause.

 

Sadly, it seems you have the current AHCI driver so until Asus or AMD

releases something newer, you're stuck with it.

 

Check in your event viewer for any yellow or red flags.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Brian]

RE: AHCI on Southbridge SB600 - slow boot up in XP

 

 

 

"Jerry" wrote:

> I am using winxp professional SP3 in my PC with the following configuration:

> AMD 5000+ with 2G ram

> Seagate 250G harddrive in my mobo ASUS M2A-VM HDMI bios 1501

>

> I changed the setting in the southbridge from IDE to AHCI according to the

> following link:

> http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080302172255000&board_id=1&model=M2A-VM+HDMI&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

>

> Everything is ok and the performance is improved except winxp stops for

> about 10 second when booting up which is same as described as the following

> link:

> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/248043-30-sata2-problems-booting

>

> I have tried different version of ahcix86.sys (driver for AHCI), but without

> improvement for the above scenario. At present, the version of my ahcix86

> is 2.5.1540.39

>

> Anyone has encountered the problem and any solution to solve it?

>

> Thanks in advance.

>

> Jerry Wong

> http://www.geocities.com/jerrywong.geo

> ¦ý§Ú­Ì·Ó¥LªºÀ³³\¡B ¬ß±æ·s¤Ñ·s¦a¡A¦³¸q©~¦b¨ä¤¤¡C(©¼«á3:13)

> But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to

> new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)

>

>

> Jerry,

 

I have virtually the same system (same MB, Athlon X2 4800+, 320GB HD,

2GB RAM, WIN XP home) and recently I changed from IDE to AHCI. I too noticed

the same delay on boot-up, but don't think much of it since the overall

system speed has not been affected. I've been wondering why the disk

performance hasn't increased over IDE mode, since I have noticed little to no

increase in speed since I changed modes. I'm wondering if the core speed of

our processors (200 MHz, or is this system speed?) has anything to do with

it. If anyone can shine some light on this, I would appreciate it as well.

 

Thanks, Brian

[Guest Jerry]

Re: AHCI on Southbridge SB600 - slow boot up in XP

 

I have checked the performance between in IDE and AHCI by the PC Wizard 2008

and HD Tune 2.55. The results in AHCI are even poor than that of IDE. In

the HD Tune 2.55, the seagate 250G even cannot properly display its disk

infos.

 

I have changed back to IDE mode already.

 

As I installed the windows in IDE mode, is there something need in the XP

professional that will add during installation? If yes, how?

 

 

 

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>

>

> "Jerry" wrote:

>

>> I am using winxp professional SP3 in my PC with the following

>> configuration:

>> AMD 5000+ with 2G ram

>> Seagate 250G harddrive in my mobo ASUS M2A-VM HDMI bios 1501

>>

>> I changed the setting in the southbridge from IDE to AHCI according to

>> the

>> following link:

>> http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20080302172255000&board_id=1&model=M2A-VM+HDMI&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

>>

>> Everything is ok and the performance is improved except winxp stops for

>> about 10 second when booting up which is same as described as the

>> following

>> link:

>> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/248043-30-sata2-problems-booting

>>

>> I have tried different version of ahcix86.sys (driver for AHCI), but

>> without

>> improvement for the above scenario. At present, the version of my

>> ahcix86

>> is 2.5.1540.39

>>

>> Anyone has encountered the problem and any solution to solve it?

>>

>> Thanks in advance.

>>

>> Jerry Wong

>> http://www.geocities.com/jerrywong.geo

>> |y¡±U-I¡Pˆ_¢DLaoˆY33\!B ?s¡Óa¡Ps?N¡Ps|a!A|3¡Mqc~|bÆØa??!C(c??ˆh3:13)

>> But in keeping with his promise we are looking forward to

>> new heaven and a new earth, the home of righteousness. (2 Peter 3:13)

>>

>>

>> Jerry,

>

> I have virtually the same system (same MB, Athlon X2 4800+, 320GB HD,

> 2GB RAM, WIN XP home) and recently I changed from IDE to AHCI. I too

> noticed

> the same delay on boot-up, but don't think much of it since the overall

> system speed has not been affected. I've been wondering why the disk

> performance hasn't increased over IDE mode, since I have noticed little to

> no

> increase in speed since I changed modes. I'm wondering if the core speed

> of

> our processors (200 MHz, or is this system speed?) has anything to do with

> it. If anyone can shine some light on this, I would appreciate it as

> well.

>

> Thanks, Brian

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: AHCI on Southbridge SB600 - slow boot up in XP

 

>I have checked the performance between in IDE and AHCI by the PC Wizard 2008

>and HD Tune 2.55. The results in AHCI are even poor than that of IDE. In

>the HD Tune 2.55, the seagate 250G even cannot properly display its disk

>infos.

>

>I have changed back to IDE mode already.

>

>As I installed the windows in IDE mode, is there something need in the XP

>professional that will add during installation? If yes, how?

 

Well, for what I understand, you'd have to slipstream the AHCI driver

into XP when installing it in AHCI mode since XP does not recognize or

support SATA / AHCI stuff natively. So if you're getting good

performance with IDE, I would leave it.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest R. McCarty]

Re: AHCI on Southbridge SB600 - slow boot up in XP

 

Basically the benefit to AHCI is Native Command Queuing. This is a

feature where disk commands are re-order to enhance performance

of the drive. I just recently upgraded my drives to the latest Seagate

family with 32-Megabyte Cache. On average, the disks are running

at or near 117 Megabytes-per-Second without AHCI.

 

"Thee Chicago Wolf" <.@.> wrote in message

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> >I have checked the performance between in IDE and AHCI by the PC Wizard

> >2008

>>and HD Tune 2.55. The results in AHCI are even poor than that of IDE. In

>>the HD Tune 2.55, the Seagate 250G even cannot properly display its disk

>>infos.

>>

>>I have changed back to IDE mode already.

>>

>>As I installed the windows in IDE mode, is there something need in the XP

>>professional that will add during installation? If yes, how?

>

> Well, for what I understand, you'd have to slipstream the AHCI driver

> into XP when installing it in AHCI mode since XP does not recognize or

> support SATA / AHCI stuff natively. So if you're getting good

> performance with IDE, I would leave it.

>

> - Thee Chicago Wolf

[Guest Thee Chicago Wolf]

Re: AHCI on Southbridge SB600 - slow boot up in XP

 

>Basically the benefit to AHCI is Native Command Queuing. This is a

>feature where disk commands are re-order to enhance performance

>of the drive. I just recently upgraded my drives to the latest Seagate

>family with 32-Megabyte Cache. On average, the disks are running

>at or near 117 Megabytes-per-Second without AHCI.

 

Watch out for the 7200.11, they have an obscenely high failure rate.

 

- Thee Chicago Wolf