A7N8X deluxe SATA setup as a primary drive

touchmyichi

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Sorry to bother all of you with this as its probably been addressed, but I looked over many of the threads and was unable to have this done. I copied the files to the floppy and during the windows set up i pressed F6 - yet it tells me to put in a floppy labeled "manufacturer-supplied hardware support disk" windows only allows a few letters for this and silicon wants it to be called 'Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Driver Installation Disk'. This is probably completely noob, but could anyone give me a guide of how to do this? Thanks

edit: or more of just a guide to set this up in general
 

SpeedTester

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Are you using raid? If you arent make sure you are plugging the Sata drive into the SATA ports on the front (Right if your looking at it). I've done atleast 5 installs with this board and no driver disk was needed with XP Professional, and XP prof SP2. I believe the silicon controller is the raid controller which isnt the right one for you if your not going the raid route. Plug your SATA drive into the other set of ports and dont hit f6 and tell us how you made out.