Integrated ALI driver 1.09 disable standby &...

eat cheese... that should do it

Okay, the solution is to uninstall the ALI IDE drivers. You will get back
the primary and secondary IDE drivers instead of the two SCSI RAID
controllers, which came with the new integrated drivers. But you also get
the hibernate option back.
And HDTach doesn't show any noticible difference in performance.

I also installed the new integrated1.91 drivers. I've have very similar
problems but I still have the two SCSI/RAID Host Controller entries (using
IRQ 14 and 15) but no primary and secondary IDE drivers entries. Under IDE
ATA/ATAPI controller I have listed 'ALi Ultra IDE Controller' and I got new
entries under the 'DVD/cd-rom drives'.

My Musicmatch software stopped working (error (29) buffer too large,
message). They said others have reported the same problem. They say it's may
be the controller for the DVD/cd-rom drivers that may be the problem. More
on that when I hear back from them.

Steve

Registry hack from ALi's UltraIDE driver v4.008 ReadMe.txt:

In Win2000/XP, Standby and Hibernation can be enabled by following 3 steps.

(1) Run "regedit.exe"
(2) Click on
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SYSTEM/CurrentControlSet/Services/alihdd/Parameters/PnpInterface/5
Highlite "5" in right-side Data window & click Edit/Rename to change Name from "5" to "1".
(3) "Restart" system to take effect.

Anyway, it will not solve the "buffer too large" error (I get it with Nero 7)... ;-(

Trash the 1.09 ALI integrated driver set and re install the 1.07 set. I ran
into this problem many months ago and have posted the problem at the
AMDMB.com/Iwill forum as well as on the Iwill BBS. Sorry I forgot to post it
here. It hasn't been that big an issue as the only way to find the 1.09 set
is to go directly to ALI's web site. If you need the 1.091 AGP drivers, you
can download them seperately at the ALI website.