A7N8X Deluxe SATA question.

[algae]

I'm installing a SATA drive on a new system with a A7N8X Deluxe board. Does
the Asus cd have sata drivers on it? I will be doing a new install of Win XP
Pro and the SATA drive will be the only drive.
Tia for any info.
Gary

 

[JBM]

Yes it does

 

[Gernot Saborowski]

I'm installing a SATA drive on a new system with a A7N8X Deluxe board. Does
the Asus cd have sata drivers on it?

Yes, it does. But you have to create a driver floppy disk because
unforunately Windows only reads from floppy disk drives during driver
search when hitting F6.

Regards,

-Gernot

 

[markjen]

There's at least ten or fifteen threads on this in the last couple months.
Search is your friend.

- Mark

 

[algae]

Hmm...I wasn't going to bother putting a floppy drive in this pc. Is that
the only option?
G.

 

[Gernot Saborowski]

Hmm...I wasn't going to bother putting a floppy drive in this pc. Is that
the only option?

I also did not want to put a floppy drive in my PC - but it is the only
option for the installation... I removed the drive right after
installation of the drivers.


-Gernot

 

[Ben Pope]

I also did not want to put a floppy drive in my PC - but it is the
only option for the installation... I removed the drive right after
installation of the drivers.

I think you can use USB memory sticks that emulate a floppy (on Rev2.0
boards), or is that only if you boot from them?

The other option is to whack the drivers on your installation media and then
script their install. (I think thats the correct terminology)

Ben

 

[algae]

Sounds easier just to put a floppy drive in ...at least for the
installation
Thx for the info.
Gary

 

[Ben Pope]

Sounds easier just to put a floppy drive in ...at least for the
installation
Thx for the info.

Yep.

But there are other options, thats all. There was a huge thread here there
or somewhere on whether you need a floppy of not, I argued that you
didn't... although I entirely agree that for the cost and ease, you might as
well whack a floppy drive in. I do hate floppies with a passion though.

Ben

 

[markjen]

The other option is to whack the drivers on your installation media and
then

script their install. (I think thats the correct terminology)

Or do a temp install on an PATA drive (that Windows has built-in drivers
for), install the drivers from CD/net, install the SATA drive, and finally
clone the IDE drive over to the SATA.

- Mark