Recent content by Scott46835

You should be able to find the latest drivers on your motherboard manufacturers website. Do you have the same motherboard? If so, let me know if you find any newer drivers then on the CD as it looks like I'm going to have to reinstall XP.

The correct way to install the SATA2 drive on this board is to put the drivers on a floppy disk, then when XP install begins hit F6 when you see a note at the bottom about installing third party drivers. Later in the install it will ask you to insert the disk. My problem was that I neglected...

OK, I found a couple hard drive utilities, but I'm getting conflicting results. HD Tune 2.52 produced a benchmark burst rate of 113.9 MB/sec, which appears to be slow for a SATA II drive rated up to 300 MB/sec. It is also showing on the "info" page at the bottom right side: Standard...

I would be interested in an answer to this as well. I had the same problem installing XP on a different board (w/ XP not finishing install with F6). I tried installing the drivers after and then changed the BIOs settings to SATA, but not sure if that did the trick. Might be something worth...

I just upgraded to a ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 motherboard with a Western Digital SATAII 3.0 hard drive (WD2500KS), but I'm not sure if I have the hard drive running at its maximum capability. When I installed Windows XP, I got an error message when I got to the "Specify Additional Device" part to...