Windows Vista won't boot changing from IDE to AHCI in BIOS

Hi, I've spent a lot of time looking up this problem online. I can find lots of google search results and they seem to say go into the REGEDIT and change the 'msahci' start setting to 0 and even the 'pciide', or 'iaStorV' start settings to 0. But that doesn't work for me. The Windows load screen with the green load bar just keeps going across and Windows never starts up. I have Windows Vista Home Basic.
I saw someone in this forum with a similar problem but they upgraded to Win7 on a fresh install to fix the problem, they were switching from RAID to AHCI. I contacted Intel tech support and they said to try HP or the motherboard manufacturer. I contacted Intel because I installed an Intel 520 series Solid State Drive and wanted to know if they had a driver to get the benefit of AHCI rather than IDE. I know lots of people recommend a fresh install of Windows but I did not get a cd of Windows with this computer
(My computer is a Compaq Presario SR2170NX Desktop 
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c00835809&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en... )
I tried installing this Microsoft fix too. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/922976
I'm wondering if there is an AHCI driver I can install or anything I can do to get AHCI working?
Thanks to anyone who can help!
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You're very welcome.
I always leave the boot order BIOS setting to boot from the HDD first so as to shave off a few microseconds from the boot time. 
When I need to boot from another device such as a DVD in your case, I turn on the PC, at the beginning of the HP welcome screen, I tap the F9 key to get the one-time boot menu.
I select the DVD drive from the list. Then I hit the button on the drive to open the drive, pop the bootable DVD in, close the tray, wait a second or so and then hit the enter key.
After I hit the enter key, watch the sreen for a message that states in substance...attempting to boot from DVD...press any key to boot from DVD...
I press any key and the PC boots from the DVD and off I go...
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Now remember...making that file is pretty easy, but only if you read both my notes and the guy that wrote the procedure's steps carefully.
There have been a few forum members that I have had to coach during the process, because they were following that guy's every step to the letter, and as I pointed out, there is only one mistake on his first screen shot...but that one mistake is all it takes to stop you cold.
Disregard the part of the text under the first screen shot about "extract the files to the Vista folder."
The files were already extracted to that Vista folder when you ran the X14.exe file by reading the text on top of the first screen shot.
You get past that, and you're home free.
Good luck!

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