Need Help With SATA driver!!!

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16 years 1 day ago #25889 by urangeloflove

Need Help With SATA driver!!! was created by urangeloflove

I'm currently working on a friend's laptop computer - a Chinese TCL computer, to be precise, and it needs a SATA driver to enable the computer read the storage device. With out this SATA driver, I can't install any operating system. The TCL company website I cannot find, what can I do?

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16 years 22 hours ago #25892 by Smurf

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Give this site a go overseas.tcl.com/service/download.asp

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16 years 21 hours ago #25893 by S0lo

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If you give up finding the driver (like I did once). Then there is a way around this which is to disable the AHCI option in your BIOS so your SATA will work as a normal IDE were the OS setup can see it. (at least temporarily). Check here:

www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/23/window...-drive-on-ahci-mode/

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15 years 11 months ago #26024 by ikon

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nice trick solo

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15 years 11 months ago #26032 by S0lo

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nice trick solo

, but problem is it probably won't give us the performance we expect from SATA. I still have that laptop which I did it for and I'm too lazy to find a driver for it.

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15 years 4 months ago #28332 by durk21

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Or you could just go to your motherboard manufacturers website and download it. Also you can go to your hard drive manufacturers website they typically have generic drivers there as well.