Tips on installing Vista on Dell Dimension 9200 / XPS 410
I’m back from a great vacation! 
And finally decided to upgrade to Vista on my machine.
Then found it’s not as easy as I thought…
After 2 days of struggle I finally figured out the root cause of the problem:
If you have a Dell Dimension 9200 / XPS 410, and got BSOD “worker_thread_returned_at_bad_irql” during setup, or you worked around the setup problem but your Vista pauses for 15 seconds every 5~10 minutes, here is how to fix it:
Open your dell machine case, check where the DVD/Burner are connected. Most likely you will find SATA0 is connected to the only hard disk, and SATA1/2 is connected to DVD/Burner. Disconnect DVD/Burner and reconnect to SATA4/5. Mission accomplished!
It seems Vista’s RAID driver has a hard time to figure out a DVD driver is very different from a hard disk…
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