SATA NATIVE SUPPORT

I was thinking of posting on sata native support for quiet some time, When i bought my HP Compaq Presario V5000 series laptop(v5205nr), i had no problem every thing was running fine except one little thing that when the sata native support was enabled from the BIOS setting, laptop held at start up during boot up and it restart again for booting, but when i had disabled the feature of sata native support from BIOS it had worked very much fine and it seems there was no problem in booting.


So in order to use this sata native support for better performance follow these steps to install sata driver for your machine.....

DOWLOAD this file first and unrar it and save it in drive C:

http://www.4shared.com/file/65058741/dedde0dd/Intel_Matrix_Storage_Manager.html


1- Open the device manager

2- Expand the " IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers "

3- Right click on the " Intel 82801GBM (ICH7-M Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller "

4- Right-Click on that and select Update Driver

5- Say no to connecting to Windows Update to search, hit Next

6- Select Install from a list or specific location (Advanced), hit Next

7- Select "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install", hit Next

8- Select Have Disk

9- Browse to C:\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Driver and highlight the iastor.inf file, hit Open

10- Select OK

11- Now you should have a list of controllers, for the Compaq presario v5000. choose Intel 82801GBM SATA AHCI Controller, hit Next

12- You'll get warned that installing the device driver is not recommended, click Yes to continue installing

13- Click Finish

14- Click Yes to restart your computer


When your computer boots up, you need to hit F10 to enter the BIOS. Change SATA Native Mode to Enabled, save changes and exit.

After you log into Windows, your computer will find the "new" hardware. Wait until you get the popup message to restart your computer,
say Yes to restart one last time.


That's it, You had installed ur driver for Sata Native Support.


Waqas Rafi
Editor