I'm having a similar issue with the same chipset in an HP Elitebook 8460P. We have to downgrade to XP, but need it to run in AHCI to support the Drive Encryption. There was very little help that I found, but I did trick it into loading the Mobile express chipset driver.
Bare with me as I didn't document any of this, but I will try to make it simple.
1. Download the 10.1.0.1008 Inf update utuility and extract the contents into a folder.
2. Download the F6 floppy .zip witht he iaAHCI and iaStor.sys files in there.
3. Go in the autoint_enu folder you extracted and find the cougAHCI.inf, cougAHCI.cat files in the Win7 folder.
4. Transfer them into your F6 floppy folder.
5. You have to modify the cougAHCI.inf to this below;
I don't know if this will help you, but there are a crap load of other .INF files in that package as well. The extract command is close to this, but I'm not 100% sure. C:\<source> -e -e -p C:\<destination>
<quote>Extract the Intel Chipset Software Installation Utility files from the compressed distribution:
- Self-extracting .EXE distribution: INFINST_ENU.EXE -a -a -p <INF Extract Directory>
example: INFINST_ENU.EXE -a -a -p c:\extract\INF
- Compressed .ZIP distribution: SETUP.EXE -a -p <INF Extract Directory>
example: SETUP.EXE -a -p c:\extract\INF</quote>
Add the red lines and delete the strikthroughs.
***This is for the cougAHCI.inf x86 version
; ****************************************************************************
; ****************************************************************************
; ** Filename: COUGAHCI.INF
; ** Abstract: Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family
; ** Last Update: September 10, 2010 (Version 9.2.0 Build 1011)
; ****************************************************************************
; ****************************************************************************
[version]
Signature="$WINDOWS NT$"
Class=hdc
ClassGuid={4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Provider=%INTEL%
CatalogFile=cougahci.cat
DriverVer=09/10/2010, 9.2.0.1011
[SourceDisksNames]
1 = %DiskName%,,,
[SourceDisksFiles]
iaStor.sys= 1
[PackageInfo]
Name=Chipset
Condition=Provider(Microsoft)||InstallDriverName(Chipset)
[ControlFlags]
ExcludeFromSelect=*
[Manufacturer]
%INTEL%=INTEL_HDC,NTamd64
[INTEL_HDC]
;CougarPoint AHCI
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02.DeviceDesc%=intelahci,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C03.DeviceDesc%=intelahci,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C03
[INTEL_HDC.NTamd64]
;CougarPoint AHCI
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02.DeviceDesc%=intelahci,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02
%PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C03.DeviceDesc%=intelahci,PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C03
;**********************************************************
; Intel AHCI Controller
[intelahci]
Include=mshdc.inf
Needs=msahci_Inst
[intelahci.Services]
Include=mshdc.inf
Needs=msahci_Inst.Services
[Strings]
INTEL="Intel"
;CougarPoint AHCI
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C02.DeviceDesc="Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller - 1C02"
PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C03.DeviceDesc="Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family 6 Port SATA AHCI Controller - 1C03"
;*******************************************
;Handy macro substitutions (non-localizable)
REG_DWORD = 0x00010001
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