1. Sata Drivers Downloads

'Windows XP. Windows XP does not provide drivers for all the SATA controllers, therefore, during the installation procedure, the user must insert a floppy with the drivers that came in the package along with the motherboard.' 'if you read through this to the part of ' insert the SATA drivers within the installation package, you need to have it saved on the HDD. Hence, when the warning window appears click OK and select the destination folder for the files to be saved.

Make sure that the destination partition / HDD has enough space to store the contents of the installation CD.' 'you may can use a usb pendrive if its recognized and get the files needed from there near the same steps as with the floppy or as there sais about the the rest just point it to the pendrive /files?best I can do on that. 'Windows XP. Windows XP does not provide drivers for all the SATA controllers, therefore, during the installation procedure, the user must insert a floppy with the drivers that came in the package along with the motherboard.' 'if you read through this to the part of ' insert the SATA drivers within the installation package, you need to have it saved on the HDD. Hence, when the warning window appears click OK and select the destination folder for the files to be saved.

Make sure that the destination partition / HDD has enough space to store the contents of the installation CD.' 'you may can use a usb pendrive if its recognized and get the files needed from there near the same steps as with the floppy or as there sais about the the rest just point it to the pendrive /files?best I can do on thatThanks for the quick responsI thought that was similar to what I did with using nLight. I basically included the drivers to boot.In fact before I did this I could go only as far and loading windows file on disk and could never get to the install.After adding drivers to the xp install I was then able to actually get to the installing windows screen. The issue after that is that it installs, but I cant get to the desktop, it just crashes.I will try to rebuild once more (have created about 10 install disks this far) to see if it works, but I really doubt it. Is this a retail copy of xp from Microsoft or something you just downloaded?

Don't know seeing you did say it fully installed and worked on the ide drive? So then whats wrong with using the ide drive?? Today even with my sata drives I still set them in the bios for ide have you tried that? I don't use ahci at all with any of my platter drives??you cant install windows on another computer and just move ti to another computer its tied to the computers motherboard it was installed on.also just looking are these the drivers you try to add in the install??' 'System & Chipset Drivers 'not the'System & Chipset Drivers ' I think that's just for setting up raid32been a long time since I had to fool with any of that - sorry. Thanks again Junkey.

The ide is one of two backups. The whole reason I am going back to xp is to see if a certain program is more stable.The ide is a milestone since it has been such a pain to install xp. I was looking at a mobo memory cpu combo that is above par compared to my core2duo for 90 bucks.

But I am a research freak so I will keep my eye out for other deals. I have spares of everything else that should work out.

I may need a new powersupply as well, but I will have to check to see what power connectors are different.I actually found an 80gb so I will use that, also have a seagate 500gb I will try later, but I think its busted along with the 250gb I have.I have thought that I may have some hardware issues in general because of the frequent bluescreening, always seemed to be due to my graphics. I have 3 cards (nvidia) and after a while they all crash my pc on fresh installs with fresh drivers.

I am starting to think It's probably just old hardware starting to fail (MOBO), The gtx 460 card I have doesn't have much use on it, and I can't imagine every nvidia card I have is bad. The chipset is nvidia as well so I would think they would play nicely. The graphics cards I have are in the same generation as the core2duo as well.I tried a cheap amd graphics too and it was bsod on 7, and it also ran my cad software like crap.Will test out the ide on xp and see if I get any bluescreens on the 80gb, if it works and performance is somewhat tolerable then I will just stick with that.If that fails then its either back to 7 or just upgrading the mobo cpu and memory with some cheap stuff. Again the cheap stuff of today is somewhat better than the core2duo e6300 1.8ghz processor I have, and it has better features (and probably compatibility with 7).

Sata Drivers Downloads

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