Satellite A300-1N8 on XP in AHCI - "iaStor" error and gel

Hello guys,.

A friend of mine bought a new A300-1N8 Toshiba without BONE a month ago.

I installed Win XP Pro Sp3 and after 2 days of wondering how to activate DCIS (because in compability mode it was hellish slow), I found out how do and I've done my XP with NLite and drivers from the Intel Matrix Storage Manager - ICH9M and reinstalled windows in AHCI mode with no problems (because I did not know that there is a way to install it without reistaling windows)
I installed all the drivers on the site and everything was going well until the time we discovered that the system randomly stops responding and freezing... then restarts the only way to switch.

I found that in the event viewer (in the Control Panel - administrative tools) on the information system pops up an error randomly:
{color: #ff0000} "the device, \Device\Ide\iaStor, did not in the expiration time". {color}
And in fact, the Iastor.sys was the system for the Intel AHCI controller driver, is it good?

So after this error apears - the HDD lights on and the system unresponsive after some time or after trying to restart or shut down Windows menu start.

I found here
[http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1368385]
the error can be can be solved by changing the settings in the LPM from 1 to 0.
I fixed it but the still apears in the error and the system freezes randomly :(

Any suggestions?

Hmm, I read on one of the sites that I've found in google that a HARD disk failure could cause this problem too.
A guy has reported on the same issue of time out, and after installing Win XP on another HDD error didn t happen.

You must also make sure that the DMA if available option has been selected in the Device Manager-> primary IDE channel-> avancΘs-> device 0

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