Satellite Pro A300-1PK - slow start up in Windows XP

CPU = Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz T5800
RAM = 2 GB
HDD = 250GB SATA
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SATA Controller is set to *COMPATIBILITY*
Installation time of Windows XP SP2 is *76 mins*
Boot up time without drivers is *1 min 30 secs.*
Boot up time with drivers is *2 mins 45 secs.*
I have tried setting the SATA controller to AHCI and download the driver from Intel. Pressing the F6 during the initialization of Windows setup. Before I reached the window where I can choose to install WIndows, Repair and Exit, the "Screen of Death" (blue screen) appears. Telling about the hard drive.
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SATA Controller is set to *AHCI*
Installation time of Windows Vista (NO Service Pack) is *45 mins*
Boot up time without drivers is *1 min 10secs.*
Boot up time with drivers is *58 secs.*
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I have tried been trying to download the AHCI driver from Intel, but everything show the same problem, BLUE screen.
Any ideas.
Thanks.

Hi
If the SATA mode is set to compatible then your HDD will always slow down the notebook performance!
> I have tried setting the SATA controller to AHCI and download the driver from Intel. Pressing the F6 during the initialization of Windows setup. Before I reached the window where I can choose to install Windows, Repair and Exit, the "Screen of Death" (blue screen) appears. Telling about the hard drive.
You need the right SATA drivers. You can find the right SATA files in the Intel Matrix Storage Manager which could be downloaded from the Intel page.
Note; there are different packages which supports different chipsets!
After the right SATA driver has been chosen you could use the freeware software called nLite to build a new XP CD and to include the SATA files.

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