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Just an update: I installed the MassCool XWT-RC040 a few days ago, and it's working fine. I'm using it in XP, Windows 7 32-bit, and Windows 7 64-bit. I haven't tried booting to it yet; so far it's just a data drive. The performance seems fine, though I don't know how to benchmark hard drive...

Does Windows 7 have a new addressing model? At the time I bought the Abit UL8 in 2006, 64-bit Windows had already been available for a while. I don't know when the UL8 was designed, but 64-bit Windows XP was released in early 2003. Anyway, 64-bit Windows 7 and 64-bit Vista are both running...

I went to newegg.com and clicked Computer Hardware | Computer Accessories | Add-On Cards. Then, I clicked Power Search, and checked the four boxes in the Type section that had PCI on the left and SATA on the right, and clicked Search. That narrowed the field to 11 cards. Then I sorted by...

Thanks for all the help! :) I've decided to go with a MassCool XWT-RC040: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815280003 As far as I can tell, the Silicon Image chips works better than Via. I have a SATA 3.0Gb/s drive with no jumper to throttle it to 1.5Gb/s (Hitachi...

Thanks, I'm surprised at how cheap those motherboards are. But the last time I tried doing a repair install of Windows after swapping out the motherboard, it didn't work and I had to reinstall. Greg

Thanks, but even if it turned out that it worked if I migrated all IDE devices to SATA or USB, it would still be simpler and cheaper to get the SATA add-in card. Or maybe an adapter that made the SATA drive interface as an IDE drive: http://www.amazon.com/SATA-PATA-Driv...=1E7CT9572W5VB (I'm...

Correction on this -- Device Manager wasn't happy with it after all. I must have absent-mindedly looked before rebooting. :rolleyes: After rebooting, Device Manager says it can't start. Greg

Thanks, I installed that and used it to create a backup of the driver files. Then I booted to the 64-bit Win7 Setup CD and when it came to the screen prompted for where to install it, I clicked Install Driver (or whatever it was named), and pointed to the driver. It refused to install it...

Thanks, but mixing them is working fine in 32-bit Windows 7; also in 32-bit XP. I think I'd rather go with an add-in SATA card than with 2 external USB housings and a new SATA DVD burner, unless I'm missing something? Greg

Thanks, but I tried that and Windows Setup wouldn't accept it. But that wasn't with the integrated v2.20 driver setup that makes Device Manager happy. All I have for that is the setup EXE (same as the one ihyagp linked to in this thread); is it possible to extract the files from it that I'd...

Come to think of it, doesn't that suggest that the problem might be a conflict, rather than the driver not working? Maybe I'll test installing 64-bit Win7 to another partition, and then do nothing else before installing that driver. Although I didn't do much before installing it this time. Greg

Thanks, but I'm happy with the performance of 64-bit Windows 7 on this hardware, and that's with only a single-core CPU (Athlon 64 3200+) and only 2GB RAM. I do need to be able to use 64-bit Windows, because I sell Excel add-ins and Microsoft has recently released a 64-bit version of the Excel...

Thanks, but I've already tried that. That was what finally made Device Manager happy, but it still wouldn't boot with the SATA drive attached. Greg

Thanks -- The bios setup calls them IDE drives; I have no idea why. It lists 6 IDE drives: -- IDE Channel 1 Master -- IDE Channel 1 Slave -- IDE Channel 2 Master -- IDE Channel 2 Slave -- IDE Channel 3 Master -- IDE Channel 4 Master But 3 & 4 are for SATA ports. In their setup, it says: --...

What do I need to do to get SATA working on an Abit UL8 motherboard in 64-bit Windows 7? It's working fine in XP and in 32-bit Windows 7. I was finally able tonight to get Device Manager to seem to be happy with the driver (with the SATA drive detached), but it still didn't work -- if the SATA...