Satellite A300-1N8 on XP in AHCI - "iaStor" error and freezing

Hello guys,
A friend of mine has bought a new Toshiba A300-1N8 without OS a month ago.
I've installed Win XP Pro Sp3 and after 2 days of wondering how to enable the ACHI (because in compability mode it was hellish slow), I found how to do it and I made my XP with NLite and the extracted drivers from the Intel Matrix Storage Manager - ICH9M and reinstalled the windows in ACHI mode without any problems (because i still didnt know that there is way to install it without reistaling of windows)
I've installed all the drivers from the site and everything was fine till the moment we discovered that randomly the system stops responding and freezing... then the only way is restarting from the Power Button.
I found that in the Event Viewer (in the control panel - administrative tools) on the System information randomly appears an error:
{color:#ff0000}"The device, \Device\Ide\iaStor, did not respond within the timeout period". {color}
And the Iastor.sys actually was the system driver for the Intel AHCI controller, is it right?
So after that error apears - the the HDD lights permanently on and the system stopped responding after a few time or after trying to restart or turn off from windows start menu.
i found here
[http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1368385]
that the error may be can be fixed by changing the parameters in the LPM from 1 to 0.
I fixed it but the error still apears and the system crashes randomly :(
Any suggestions?

Exactly the same problem here on a Satellite L300.
I also made an ISO file with nlite and the F6 SATA driver disk.
The system freezes (in fact its the windows explorer or "My computer" that freezes) and the harddisk LED remains solid on. But the drive remains working if a program was having access to it. But it's not possible to start an explorer based program.
The freezes appear to be randomly, sometimes after many hours.
After reboot there appears to be an "iastor" time out in the Windows log files some time before the freeze.
No IDE settings available as there is no IDE drive in the XP hardware manager...
Only thing I could try right now is set the BIOS to compatibility mode and use a "normal" XP install disk without the sata drivers and see if that works better for me.

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It is important to say that this notebook comes without any software (on external hardware (CD,...)) at all.
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Hi
Notebook supports the Realtek LAN card and the Mobile Intel GL40 Express Chipset (graphic card)
You can download the Vista 64bit drivers from the Realtek page and from Intel page.
The error code 10 means that the device (LAN card) cannot start or cannot be used because there is a compatibility issue between the device and driver.
In most cases a wrong driver has been used!
It could be also possible that some MS updates are needed to sort out this issue.
Check this MS knowledge base article:
+Description of Code 10-related errors that Device Manager generates on Windows XP-based computers+
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/943104/
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I had this problem with my laptop Satellite A300 (PSAJ4E). I bought a new battery and started my laptop. I have Windows Vista.
The battery is not detected. When I remove the charger its work well but with indicator of low battery so Im update my BIOS but the problem is still there.
So I look around and tried to disable Microsoft in device manger.
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hi king_soft,
sold a third party battery?
in some cases the used controller (battery) is not recognised by your system...
you can try this (without any promisses):
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insert battery and wait 24hours
disconnect ac-adapter and remove battery
switch machine on to make it fully discharged (some components holding electricity)
insert battery and start the unit
check powermanager or energy options if the battery is recognised...
never open up a battery pack - it's really dangerous!
if the battery pack is recognised by the system - you won!
if not make sure that your ac-adapter supplies the right voltage/current to your system
test another battery to make sure the loading device (notebook) is working properly
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Message was edited by: Al-eX

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Download the touchpad driver released for newer notebook series for example A660 or other
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1- Extract [http://www.mediafire.com/file/qjidwo20rnt/Toshiba A300 WindowsXP 32bit ICH9M.zip]
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[HD Tune Before|http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/1043/hdtune1ul1.png]
[HD Tune After|http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/8168/hdtune2rw8.png]

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Performance in compatibility is really poor (slowness at copying big files, windows takes so long to start up, CPU consumption), it’s 20 times better with SATA.<br />
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(And sorry for my poor English :p )

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As I can see your posting is mix of three different issues but described in two sentences.
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Hi
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Hello
> but not the connectors.
So the case is claer: If you dont have a second SATA connector, you cant install a second HDD.
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