Switch to native SATA after install WinXP Pro?

I have a compaq presario C306us with a kind of chipset mobile Intel 940-family that is currently being displayed in the disk SATA controller device manager

"Intel 82801GBM/GHM ICH7 - M family Serial ATA" showing a driver as provided by Intel, as of 23/05/2005, version 7.0.0.1020
That all said, I'm not sure it's the right driver, or best driver for the device - it is extraordinarily difficult to determine what is right for this chipset [plethora of posts on the topic anywhere on the web].
The system works with the disabled SATA, it means Compaq say 'Compatibility ATA Mode' :)
Switching the bios "SATA" will result in bootloop.
There are messages here and there on the tech forums that support there is a way to implement the system I have now it, point to a source for driver update driver install, install it, restart and go to the BIOS and switch to native and it should work.
Such a position that seems well detailed is the following:
http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=5958179945737198333&PostID=1655526364059940970&page=1&token=1311643213679
SIW reports the northbridge as i940/943 and video shows i945GM
HP publishes only a softpaq Intel Matrix Storage for this model, and he's wearing an older driver than what I currently loaded.
HP has a manual on a similar model but sectors of this platform, which details the various solutions and workarounds for this problem.  The instructions after the fact are similar to the but not exactly that of the blogger above.
I would move this little laptop to a SSD drive, but without solving this issue, it would be a bit of waste.
I can't get this working and need help from someone more light I have.
Please help if you can.

for the sake of others who have this problem and get the same zero responses as I did, I will post the solution.

Intel crashes their drivers in CAB files so that, in the case of this particular implementation, simply run the executable does not create a folder anywhere that includes all the necessary driver extracted and available files. to make things worse, the cab files are protected by Word and no one I know has the 'key '. so even if microsoft and other kind souls after a procedure to enable real SATA mode, we need to find the drivers.
These drivers have been posted by some kind and knowledgeable on download.com soul.  This person obviously understood the catch22, extracted the drivers and their publication in a usable form there.
for reasons that I don't understand, just go to the Device Manager, pulling up the pane driver SATA device and point the wizard to the necessary driver "update" the file on the hard drive will not accomplish the goal.  Instead, copy the files to a usb flash drive and point the wizard on this device to extract the files.  Once that is done, restart the system and immediately call setup/BIOS and SATA to legacy mode SATA mode switch.  Save and let the system startup normally.  When windows is in place and connected, it will finish the task of updating all the devices associated with the controller [in my case the ICH7-M].  Then, the system must be restarted once more for all changes to take effect.  You are finished.  Finally

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