A7n8x-Deluxe and SATA drivers

[Cyberdog]

Hi,
I am installing Windows XP onto a new hard drive, which is connected to
an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe M/B. I have put the relevant SATA drivers onto a
floppy disk, but when windows setup asks for the driver disk it can`t
open it.Can anyone please run through the correct procedure for
installing them.Thanks

 

[SPRITE1001]

As long as your talking about hitting F6 when the windows setup prompts you for
it, then yeah your doing it just fine.

You may want to try another floppy since those things have the life expectincy
of a gnat, also if your using the asus drivers you may wanna try the via
drivers, viaarena.com, the asus drivers dont aways work for some reason.

~Arie

 

[Paul D. Motzenbecker, Jr.]

Ciber, Arie et al:
Greetings and hallucinations from just north of Fantasy Land (Washington,
DC)!
I would not try the VIA drivers for this board, it uses the nVidia drivers.
Using the VIA drivers is akin to putting diesel fuel in a gasoline engine.
Peace,
Paul

 

[Natéag]

Have you copied TxtSetup.oem to the diskette ?
If so, are all the files mentioned in it on the diskette ?

 

[Rob]

Hi,
I am installing Windows XP onto a new hard drive, which is connected to
an Asus A7N8X-Deluxe M/B. I have put the relevant SATA drivers onto a
floppy disk, but when windows setup asks for the driver disk it can`t
open it.Can anyone please run through the correct procedure for
installing them.Thanks

Cyberdog,
As mentioned you may have a bad floppy. You definitely don't want to
use VIA drivers on a nForce board but the drivers from nVidia are good
to use once you have XP loaded! Before all that, you need the SATA
drivers on a good floppy. The ones below are from Ben Pope's site.
There is a newer set out recently but these work great.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/ben_pope/a7n8x/drivers/silicon_v10040.zip
After you unzip them to a floppy, put it in the PC your installing to
and leave it there until it prompts you to remove it. When you hit F6
to let Windows know you're installing 3rd party drivers, it sets things
up but won't actually load them til a little later on. HTH

Rob

 

[anon]

Drivers from Silicon Image, direct.
http://12.24.47.40/display/2/articleDirect/index.asp?aid=10469&r=0.4426386

 

[Cyberdog]

There is a newer set out recently but these work great.
http://mysite.freeserve.com/ben_pope/a7n8x/drivers/silicon_v10040.zip

HI Rob,
Thanks, they worked perfectly..Thanks to everyone else for their help.
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