M58 Boot Disk Failure

Hello and thanks ahead of time.
I have several M58's. One of them seems to have had a failure of the mother boards SATA chips. Neither of the 2 spots are discovered during boot and I can't use the HDD or the CD. .. it just skips right past them and says no bootable device without ever accessing them.
I removed the drive and put it in an external enclosure and connected to another computer. The drive appears fine and I was able to copy files off of it and navigate the full file structure. But I really need to boot from it at least one more time to run a specific application at least one more time.
The problem is that it only will boot part of the way in the external housing. It starts to show the windows boot screens but right after the windows colored symbol shows it just stops the boot and power cycles. I tried putting the drive in a different one of my m58's and it did the same thing. Then, for curiosity, I tried swapping drives on 2 of my normal working m58's and the same thing happens. I put the 2 drives back into their original computers and they both boot fine. Also I tried moving a normal m58's HDD to the external enclosure and booting on that same machine and this same half-way boot then abort happens. The drive works fine when returned to the main SATA plug on the mother board. So this does not appear to have anything to do with corrupted drives but rather physical location. This particular computer was running windows server 2003 but I find the same thing happening on xp-pro machines. I had temporarily moved server 2003 over from an actual server using a restored disk image while I was doing some hardware changes to the server. It was working so well that I got lazy and didn't bother going back to the server (until now of course)
I don't understand why the drives will boot fine ONLY when plugged into the computer they were created on and plugged directly into the mother board's SATA location. Is this some sort of license protection to keep people from moving drives around? I really need to boot that drive just one more time. Any thoughts?
And I also tried putting in a PCI-e SATA card and it isn't working either. I think the pci-e slot is non-functional as I can get the same card working on another m58.
Thanks.

Thanks for the response.
In the bios, under devices, I see ATA drives, then under that sata drives. There are 3 options next to that, enhanced (what it was on), disabled, and compatible. Is this what you refer to? I find nothing that specifically states AHCI.
I also found the following on a forum after some googling. Any comments regarding it?
Thanks a ton.
Originally Posted by kent1146
Here's how [to install AHCI on an existing XP install]:
1) Download the Intel Matrix Storage Manager here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Prod...=2101&lang=eng
2) Once you download the file, run it with a -a switch:
iata76_enu.exe -a
This will NOT install the Matrix Storage Manager. What this will do is run the installer, and ONLY EXTRACT the files to C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Again, this does NOT install anything.
3) Your drivers are now located in C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager. They will be found in either \Driver, or \Driver64, depending on whether you're running a 32-bit or 64-bit OS.
4) Go to Device Manager --> IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers. Double-click on the Intel ICH8M 3-port SATA Controller - 2828... remember, *ONLY* click on the device that ends with 2828.
5) Go to Driver tab, and choose to Update Driver.
6) Tell the Wizard prompts:
- No, not this time
- Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)
- Don't Search. I will choose the driver to install.
- Click the "Have Disk" button. Point it to C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Driver (or Driver64).
- The driver you want to install for WinXP 32-bit for the Dell XPS M1330 is Intel 82801HEM/HBM SATA AHCI Controller
- After you install the driver and click OK out of every menu, reboot the laptop.
7) During reboot, go into BIOS and turn on AHCI mode and Flash Module
8) Voila! WinXP will boot up with no BSOD!

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