A7n8X-E Deluxe

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Rudy Kazuti

Just got the above board today. Do you have to install the SATA drivers from
a floppy when installing the OS as you do with some other brands? It's not
clear in the manual.
Rudy
 
Rudy said:
Just got the above board today. Do you have to install the SATA drivers from
a floppy when installing the OS as you do with some other brands? It's not
clear in the manual.
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Yes, you have use the drivers from a floppy when you're instelling the
OS on a S-ATA disk. At least, I had to do that. ;-)

frank
 
Rudy Kazuti said:
Just got the above board today. Do you have to install the SATA drivers
from
a floppy when installing the OS as you do with some other brands? It's not
clear in the manual.
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I doubt it, unless you want to use RAID from the word go.
 
I doubt it, unless you want to use RAID from the word go.
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Not true... you need those drivers for any SATA disk, or else Windows won't
even recognize the drive's existence (even with XP, sp2). I know this from
personal experience installing a Seagate 200gig hard drive last week on
this same motherboard.

Sam
 
Frank van den Bosch said:
Yes, you have use the drivers from a floppy when you're instelling the OS
on a S-ATA disk. At least, I had to do that. ;-)
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So an a7n8x-e deluxe out of the box into a new case with an equally new
SATA drive requires you to borrow someone else's PC to copy the SATA
drivers from the mobo CD onto a floppy? Jeez! I'm a littlle surprised to
say the least! Youn are jesting, surely?
 
So an a7n8x-e deluxe out of the box into a new case with an equally new
SATA drive requires you to borrow someone else's PC to copy the SATA
drivers from the mobo CD onto a floppy? Jeez! I'm a littlle surprised to
say the least! Youn are jesting, surely?
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Because the motherboard doesn't have the SATA drivers and Windows doesn't
have them either. So you've got to get them from someplace. Most people
have the drivers put onto a floppy _prior_ to installing the new disk. That
saves you from having to run over to the next door neighbor's house.

Some newer boards do have built-in support for SATA, but the A7N8X series
(including the E) were designed before that was available. You may want to
look into a nForce 4 board for that kind of feature.

Sam
 
Sam said:
Because the motherboard doesn't have the SATA drivers and Windows doesn't
have them either. So you've got to get them from someplace. Most people
have the drivers put onto a floppy _prior_ to installing the new disk.
That
saves you from having to run over to the next door neighbor's house.

Some newer boards do have built-in support for SATA, but the A7N8X series
(including the E) were designed before that was available. You may want to
look into a nForce 4 board for that kind of feature.
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Thanks for the clarification - this will be useful to those who are used
to building their own systems. I actually own a -e as well as two
rev2 deluxe's and they're easily the best mobos I've ever used (and
that's aplenty ;), but all originally had at least one IDE drive when the
OS was installed. I suppose if the XP installer could be navigated to
the correct folder on a 3rd-party driver CD, this wouldn't really be an
issue.
Regards,
 
Thanks for the clarification - this will be useful to those who are used
to building their own systems. I actually own a -e as well as two
rev2 deluxe's and they're easily the best mobos I've ever used (and
that's aplenty ;), but all originally had at least one IDE drive when the
OS was installed. I suppose if the XP installer could be navigated to
the correct folder on a 3rd-party driver CD, this wouldn't really be an
issue.
Regards,
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I'm not sure if I understand you correctly, but the drivers must be on a
floppy, no optical media will work. Don't ask me why... ask Microsoft.

Sam
 
if you do the google type research you can make a winxp boot cdrom that has
the sata drivers on the cd. obviously you have to do it on another computer
where you can download the drivers, incorporate them into winxp and burn the
cd.
 
Long life to DOS :-)))

Isn't there a way, using the XP console mode during the installation or with
an install option to get access to the CD and the floppy drive ?

TIA
 
Sometime on, or about Sat, 12 Feb 2005 21:53:13 +0100, Aldo Larrabiata
wrote:
Long life to DOS :-)))

Isn't there a way, using the XP console mode during the installation or with
an install option to get access to the CD and the floppy drive ?

TIA
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Not that I'm aware of. I recall a few discussions where the person didn't
even have a floppy drive installed. I think the only options might have
been an outboard USB floppy... but with the cheap cost of standard floppy
drives, you might as well install a "real" one. I personally think it's
pretty short sighted on the part of Microsoft to be so limited.

It is possible to put the drivers on a slip-streamed version of the XP
disk... doing a quick Google search found quite a few web sites that
discuss it. One example is below:
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=20748

Sam
 
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