Where you able to find any solution? According to the specs at sis.com the chipset should support AHCI as far as I can understand but as you mentioned there's no AHCI options in BIOS (v1.3). No, I did not find any real solution, the problem still persists. I have though used the laptop for 1.5 year...

Hi I have a esprimo v5535, and bought a intel ssd drive (INTEL X25-M 80GB 2.5# SSD SATA/300). Both the laptop and the ssd have the latest firmware (laptop: v1.13). It turns out that the laptop and the ssd don't always want to make friends. The boot fails in several possible ways: -Sometimes it don't...