~misfit~ wrote:

Patrick Vervoorn wrote:

According to Intel, the ICH9R supports NCQ:

http://www.intel.com/design/chipsets/matrixstorage_sb.htm

You have these 'Matrix Storage' drivers installed?

No, nor can I find any that will install. I've downloaded two
different versions so far, both of which tell me my system doesn't
meet the requirements. One, I double-checked, was definitly for the
ICH9R southbridge. I'll have to spend more time looking. I see that
for NCQ I have to select AHCI in the BIOS but whenever I do so, when
it comes time to boot from HDD I get a flash of a blue screen, then
back to the start of boot up. I hope I can find drivers that will
install, and fix this, as part of the reason I spent an extra $100
(NZ) on this board and another $120 on the RAM was to have NCQ. I've
had the SATA II drives for a while now, bought with this upgrade in
mind.
I have a horrible feeling that I needed to install the RAID drivers
via flopy disk during Windows install now. That will annoy the crap
out of me if that's the case. I didn't install them as I have no
intention of running RAID. I really don't want to re-install XP, I'm
95% of the way to having it how I like it. <fingers crossed>

I'll have to put this issue aside for now, I've been busy and it
looks like, tomorrow, I'm doing a new build for my friend. A
Q6600/8800GTX build, we're getting the mobo tomorrow. Actually, I
should resolve it before I install his, he's talking of getting a
P35/ICH9R chipset as well because mine's going so well.

I'll get back to you on this one.

Woot!!!

I found this page:

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardware/112584-how-enable-ahci-raid-mode-without-reinstalling-windows-p35-ich9-ich9r.html

follwed the instructions and now have NCQ running on my Seagates. :-)

Thanks for prompting me Patrick.
-- 
TTFN,

Shaun.