SSD install on XPS Studio 8000 ( no AHCI in BIOS )

Want to pick up a ssd for my XPS 8000. Noticing that there is no AHCI in the bios. Is there a way around this?
I was hearing that I can set the BIOS to RAID and that will force AHCI. Is there any info on this?
Thank you and Merry Christmas.

You have to run the Microsoft FIX to switch to AHCI.
Go from IDE mode to AHCI mode for your SATA devices by running the Microsoft Fix It tool to enable AHCI driver support.
After running the MS Fit It Tool, reboot, enter the BIOS, change your controller mode to RAID AHCI, save the BIOS settings and reboot back into Windows.
Microsoft Fit It Tool – Enable Sata AHCI mode
After you use the BIOS setup of a Windows 7-based computer or a Windows Vista-based computer to change the Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (SATA) mode of the boot drive to use either the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI) specification or redundant array of independent disks (RAID) features, you receive the following error message when the computer is restarted:
STOP 0x0000007B INACCESSABLE_BOOT_DEVICE

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file type: 5
file id: 0
length: 1009
offset: 624320
file name: Verify.jar
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file id: 1
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offset: 625329
file name: instructions.txt
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file id: 2
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Finding a JVM
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Searching for Sun Microsystems Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.4.X for Linux in PATH variable using path hints
Searching for Sun Microsystems Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.4.X for Linux in PATH variable using platform specific JVM Path hints
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StdOut:
1739021872
Sun Microsystems Inc.
1.4.2_04
ErrOut:
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Matching JVM home is /mnt/local/j2sdk1.4.2_04/
Matching JVM file is /tmp/isjwSPfK2
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StdOut:
ErrOut:
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Class: XmScrollBar
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Warning:
Name: scrollbar
Class: XmScrollBar
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