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    What is the Gold Standard for the older ATI control panel

    I have an ATI X800 XT PE AGP card and want to know which is the best version of the older non-Catalyst Control Center control panels for ATI cards. I don't want the .Net install that is required for CCC and my card is too old to use a lot of the features that the newer CCC provide.
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    Installed new drive but can't boot from it

    mpilchfamily- that makes sense, but you said to "leave the old drive disconnected from the SATA port when performing a fresh install on a new drive". Does it matter that the old drive was on the IDE channel and not a SATA port? I tried to do a repair install, but that option wasn't present. I...
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    Installed new drive but can't boot from it

    I ended up doing a reinstall and all went well. Thanks for the helpful tips. I definately learned alot.
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    Installed new drive but can't boot from it

    Harvey-- There is no place in the CMOS for SATA drive to be recognized. In the standard CMOS section of bios it has the IDE Primary master and slave section and the IDE Secondary master and slave section. There is no SATA reference there. Where the SATA entry is located is the Advanced Bios...
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    Installed new drive but can't boot from it

    Yes. SATA is enabled in BIOS and the new drive is set as the device to boot from. It did boot from it until I removed the old drive, which was IDE.
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    Installed new drive but can't boot from it

    I recently installed a new WD 320GB SE16 SATA drive into an older system (Gigabyte GA-8INXP mobo with Silicon Image 3112 chip on board for SATA)to replace a failing 5+ year old WD 120GB IDE drive. I installed the new drive on the SATA connector and installed XP pro on it. After install was done...