![]() Install SATA AHCI Driver to Windows 7 After Install. With the upcoming End of Support for Windows XP, I expect that many of us will be upgrading some older machines that run Windows XP to Windows 7. My suggestion is to only upgrade machines that are relatively newer, for example PCs that were bought in the Vista or early Windows 7 years but had XP pre- installed. I wouldn’t recommend upgrading older XP machines that will struggle with Windows 7. But if you have an XP machine that can handle Windows 7, then it might be a good idea to upgrade it. I ran into a situation with a Dell Precision T3. Windows 7 Professional 6. ![]() I had installed a brand new Seagate Hybrid Solid State/Hard Drive in the machine and was doing a clean install. It kept rebooting after the initial install sequence. It appeared to me that it was blue screening in a manner that was indicative of a SATA AHCI driver problem. Sure enough, when I went into the BIOS and set the SATA operation to ATA, the installation completed without further issue. However, now I had a Windows 7 installation with ATA drivers instead of the higher performing AHCI drivers (it was puzzling to me why the installation was able to get that far in AHCI mode if it wasn’t going to install a suitable AHCI driver and simply crash later, but I chalk that up to Windows being Windows). · Windows 7 Forums is the largest help and support community, providing friendly help and advice for Microsoft Windows 7 Computers such as Dell, HP, Acer, Asus or a. Welcome!! Thank you for downloading AndroMouse 6.0. This is the place where you learn how to setup AndroMouse, download AndroMouse Server, ask questions and help others. 1. Incompatible Drivers. One of the first checks to make with any mouse problems are the drivers. Windows 10 should take care of all driver updates, but that doesn. Usually, this isn’t such a hard problem to fix: simply download the proper AHCI drivers, install them, change SATA operation back to AHCI in the BIOS and you’re golden. However, in this case, the AHCI drivers (Intel ICH9. R/DO/DH) would not install. The installer kept claiming the computer did not meet minimum requirements or something similar. I couldn’t even force the drivers to manually install after extracting them. It appeared to me that since SATA operation was set to ATA mode, the installer/drivers didn’t recognize the controller as AHCI capable. Brilliant. I couldn’t set SATA operation back to AHCI because that caused a blue screen crash during boot, so I was almost of the mind that I would need to reinstall Windows 7 making sure to specifically add the AHCI drivers during the installation process. But I had already installed Windows 7 SP1 and a bunch of other updates that took a long time, so I didn’t want to use this nuclear option unless it was absolutely necessary. Luckily, after much research, I found a procedure that allowed me to install the SATA AHCI drivers without reinstalling Windows 7. Thanks to Windows. Themes. net for having the answer: Basically, change the following registry key to 0. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Current. Control. Set\services\msahci\Start. Restart the computer once (without changing any BIOS settings) and Windows will load default AHCI drivers. You may not notice anything happening, so let Windows sit for a minute or two after reboot to give it enough time to make sure this process happened. Restart the computer again and change the SATA operation to AHCI in BIOS. Save the BIOS settings and when Windows boots again, it should not crash with a blue screen. This time you should notice that Windows is installing new hardware, which includes several SATA AHCI components (similar to what the picture above shows). Windows will probably ask to restart once more. At this point you should have a functioning Windows 7 install with default SATA AHCI drivers operating. I then was able to install the vendor specific drivers from Intel because they now recognized the controller properly. Yay! A few hours of my life gone, but at least I learned something! This whole problem could have been avoided if Windows 7 would have installed the AHCI drivers properly in the first place, and/or if the Intel drivers were smart enough to recognize that the controller in ATA mode is in fact the correct controller and simply installed the drivers anyway. But issues like this are why we do what we do, so hopefully my experience will save some of you some grief! Update: With the variety of hardware and drivers out there, it seems that my procedure above does not always work. Based on comments and other research I have done, changing the values of the following Start registry keys (to either 0 or 3) might also be necessary. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current. Control. Set\services\pciide. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current. Control. Set\services\ia. Stor. V. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\Current. Control. Set\services\ia. Stor. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\Current. Control. Set\Services\atapi. Andro. Mouse 6. 3 – Android Wireless Mouse And Keyboard. Thank you for downloading Andro. Mouse 6. 0. This is the place where you learn how to setup Andro. Mouse, download Andro. Mouse Server, ask questions and help others. Andro. Mouse lets you convert your Android smartphone into a wireless mouse, keyboard, media remote, file browser and much more. Communication with your computer can be made using your Wi. Fi network or using Bluetooth. Andro. Mouse features most mouse functionalities including click, double- click, drag and drop, scroll and right- click. You can use your phone’s on- screen keyboard as the wireless keyboard. In addition to wireless mouse and keyboard, Andro. Mouse also provides tons of extra features. Most popular features include speak- to- type and file- browser. Relax on your couch and search Google or Youtube with your voice. Compose an email with your voice instead of using your physical keyboard!! Browse your computer files on your phone. Here is a sneak peek of what’s new in all new Andro. Mouse 6. 3. What has changed since earlier versions? Basically everything! I published the first version of Andro. Mouse in 2. 01. 1 – since then I had been updating/fixing few thing here and there without changing much of the core functionalities. To make the application and the server much more robust and to boost performance, I rewrote them again from scratch. Although everything underneath the application is brand new, the basic motivation of my hard work remains unchanged – to make the best performing wireless mouse and keyboard app. If you are familiar with earlier versions of Andro. Mouse, it should be fairly simple to get started. Getting Started. Connecting to the Andro. Mouse Server. If you have not downloaded Andro. Mouse in your phone yet, download it from the Play Store – Andro. Mouse Free Andro. Mouse – No Ads. To use Andro. Mouse, you will need to download the Andro. Mouse Server and run it on the computer that you want to wirelessly control. Andro. Mouse server runs on Windows, Mac or Linux and requires no further installation. Please download Andro. Mouse Server from the link below: Download Andro. Mouse Server: http: //www. Andro. Mouse. Server. Please make sure that your app version and server version matches – current version is Andro. Mouse 6. 3 (both app and the server). The downloaded zip file contains a readme text file and Andro. Mouse Server. jar file. The Andro. Mouse Server. Java runtime installed on your computer. Most computers already come with Java runtime but if yours didn’t – just download it from the java website and install it. Link to instructions on how to check if you have java installed on your computer is provided below: How to check if you have Java installed. When you have made sure that Java runtime is installed, double click on the Andro. Mouse Server. jar file that you have just extracted and just like that the Andro. Mouse Server is running. Now we can use Andro. Mouse app on your phone to make a connection. Linux users – When trying to run the server you might get an error message with something like ‘. To fix this, right- click on the file and click on properties and on Permissions tab – make sure to check box ‘Allow executing file as program’ is selected. Mac Users – When trying to run the server for the first time you might get a message saying ‘the file cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer’. In that case, right- click on the server file and click on open. Windows Users – You might get a Windows security alert saying something like ‘Windows Firewall has blocked some features.’. You must select ‘Allow Access’ to use Andro. Mouse. If you are still having issues connecting to the server, your Anti. Virus software might be blocking connections – please open Java SE binary for incoming and outgoing connections on your Firewall settings. You will see the following screen when you successfully start the Andro. Mouse server. Now all you have to do is let it run and use your Andro. Mouse app in your phone to setup the connection. Connecting Using Wi. Fi. Note – Screenshots provided below are from the ad- free version. Andro. Mouse home – To start a connection click on the new icon. Andro. Mouse – new connection screen. Click on the ‘new’ icon located on the title bar of the application. You will see the following screen that will let you choose either Wi. Fi or Bluetooth (Bluetooth is only available on Windows for the time being). Select Wifi. Note – Please make sure that the computer and the Android device are connected to same the wifi network or hotspot. Andro. Mouse will automatically start detecting Andro. Mouse Server that is running on your computer connected to your wifi network, once found it will provide the server details and give you the option to start the connection. However, for some reason, if the app didn’t detect the server – you also have the option to enter the Server’s IP address manually to make the connection. Andro. Mouse automatically detects the Server. When server is found, select Connect to begin. Connecting Using Bluetooth. Note – Please make sure that your phone is paired with the computer and Bluetooth is turned on. From the ‘New Connection’ screen – select Bluetooth. You will see a list of Bluetooth devices paired with your phone under ‘Paired Devices’. Select your computer to make the connection. Connecting with Bluetooth. Green line under title indicates connected state. After successful connection – you will notice that the thin horizontal bar below title bar turns green. Note – the color of the thin horizontal bar beneath the title bar indicates connection status – red for disconnected and green for connected. You will also feel a short vibration when your active connection gets disconnected. Using Wireless Mouse. Move your single finger around the touchpad area as you would move a physical mouse over a mousepad. You can tap on the touchpad to send a click signal or use the mouse buttons below the touchpad to send respective click signals to your computer. Here is the list of various ways you can send signals using the touchpad, scroll bar and the mouse buttons. Click. Tap on touchpad with single finger or left click button. Double click. Double tap on touchpad. Right click. Tap on touchpad with two fingers or right click button. Drag and drop. Tap and hold on touchpad for two seconds- move finger to drag- tap to release. Scroll. Swipe up or down on the scrollbar. Using Wireless Keyboard. Tap on the ‘keyboard icon’ to bring up keyboard. Press on back soft- button to hide the keyboard. Andro. Mouse uses your phone’s standard keyboard. Andro. Mouse Extras. Andro. Mouse Extras. I have provided screenshot of each of the Andro. Mouse Extras and a short description underneath. Speak- to- type. If you feel like speaking instead of typing – use this feature. Function keys. All your function keys and additional keyboard keys are provided here. Numpad. Numpad. Game Pad. Use game pad to use your phone as a wireless joystick. You can customize each button so that you can select what key you want to send when you click on that button. Shortcuts. Use pre- existing shortcuts like copy, paste, print or create your own. Media Remote. Remote to control the media player running on your computer. It also comes with mini file browser so you can browse your computer’s media files and select which ones to play. File Browser. Browse your computer’s files from your phone, you can also send the signal to open the file in your computer from your phone. Presentation. Control your Powerpoint presentation from your phone. You will also see your computer’s screen to make sure that you are on right slide (this function is currently in beta). Power Keys. Restart, shutdown, lock and put your computer to sleep from this remote. Settings. Many of the Andro. Mouse features are customizable via the settings screen. If you have a specific question on any of the setting item, please let me know in the comments below. Thank You!! I know there are a lot of things that I have not covered on this page, but should you have any question, comment or any suggestion for the future release, please let me know in the comments section. Thank you once again for downloading Andro. Mouse. I hope you will enjoy the app and give me positive review in the app store. Link to the app store. Andro. Mouse Free. Andro. Mouse – No Ads.
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