From: philo@privcy.not   
      
   On 03/13/2013 08:22 AM, Rob wrote:   
      
      
   >>>>   
   >>>> The weird thing...in all the years I've been repairing computers...   
   >>>> I never saw a temporary profile being set up.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Just curious to see if anyone ran into that before?   
   >>>   
   >>> I've seen that before when the user profile is corrupted or if it is   
   >>> otherwise unavailable.  Say, for example, if it's being stored on a   
   >>> secondary drive that has failed.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Glad I was not the only one.   
   >>   
   >> I have the machine up and running now with SATA set to IDE in the bios   
   >>   
   >> Now I have to see if I can get the SATA drivers working   
   >>   
   >   
   > You sure it wasn't just the owner changing the BIOS to AHCI mode,   
   > perhaps after reading some article saying that is worth doing?   
   > To be honest, changing to ACHI mode and installing AHCI drivers   
   > into a running copy of XP already booting in IDE mode is rarely   
   > worth doing and can be rather tricky, sometimes resulting in the   
   > need to do a Repair Install.  Sometimes even a full re-install   
   > may be needed if a mistake is made in the process.   
      
      
      
      
   I got the drivers installed with no problem.   
      
      
   The user of the machine is unlikely to have made a BIOS change   
   but when I got the machine, the bios was actually set to RAID.   
      
   Once I booted the machine up with the drive set to IDE in the bios,   
   I reset the BIOS to AHCI.   
      
      
   The machine booted up ok but there was an unknown PCI device.   
   I went to Gateway's website and installed the AHCI drivers and rebooted   
   and now the machine is working OK.   
      
      
   However as you mentioned it was probably not worth it as the machine's   
   performance does not seem to be any different.   
      
      
      
   Since I don't have the install media, I would not have been able to do a   
   repair install...however...the owner of the machine was not too happy   
   with XP Media Center.   
      
   He had some software that was designed for XP...   
   but the installed did not recognize XP Media Center as a supported OS.   
      
   He would have needed XP pro or home...   
   Really bad news.   
      
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