Hi, I just bought a Dell Dimension 9150. I'm trying to install Windows XP on it. I'm pretty sure that I have narrowed it down to a problem with the harddrive controller not recognizing the harddrive. It is a Seagate 7200 80GB SATA drive. I have installed the Seagate harddrive utility on it, but even it does not truly recognize the drive and calls it a Bios Disk Drive. Anyways, XP install will load up all the drives, hang for 5 seconds, and then give me a pci.sys error. Is there anything special that I need to do? I have already tried pressing F6 and installing third party drivers, but that doesn't work either. I need help quick. Thanks for anything.

what's the error message on bsod?

Perfect instruction which worked for me:
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http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/wind...ard-disk-drives-installed-in-your-system.html
(in short: change the BIOS setting for SATA Controller to 'Combination'
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But, after changing the SATA Operation setting back to RAID AUTODETECT / AHCI, new BSOD occur. So I left the setting to "Combination"

win xp instillation problems

Hi, I just bought a Dell Dimension 9150. I'm trying to install Windows XP on it. I'm pretty sure that I have narrowed it down to a problem with the harddrive controller not recognizing the harddrive. It is a Seagate 7200 80GB SATA drive. I have installed the Seagate harddrive utility on it, but even it does not truly recognize the drive and calls it a Bios Disk Drive. Anyways, XP install will load up all the drives, hang for 5 seconds, and then give me a pci.sys error. Is there anything special that I need to do? I have already tried pressing F6 and installing third party drivers, but that doesn't work either. I need help quick. Thanks for anything.