Asus P5K Deluxe with no Floppy connector

[Grinja]

Hi
I've just ordered a AsusP5K Deluxe MB but I noticed that there is no floppy connector.

When I install windowsXP i need to hit F8 (I think) to include SATA drivers which have to be on the stiffy disk (A: drive) for installation otherwise windows will not detect my SATA drive.

How can I install the SATA drivers without the floppy drive?

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[cuti7399]

these board do not need floppy to install to sata drive, just plug your sata drive into sata slot 1

 

[alaricljs]

I know my board (Gigabyte) did just fine without jumping driver hoops on the XP install. However if you do run into a need for a floppy drive, USB floppies have worked for me for BIOS flashes, windows pre-install drivers, and norton ghost. I got mine free tho, and at the time I worked on 50+ machines that didn't have floppy drives (laptops and servers).

 

[vailr]

A single SATA hard drive won't need a driver. Either a Raid array or enabling AHCI mode will require a driver under XP.
The XP installer won't accept a USB drive as a source for drivers (F6 key, when booting from the install CD).
Vista, however, does allow using a USB drive.
One option for XP would be: create a custom XP install disc which includes whatever Raid drivers are needed. I'd recommend using "DriverPack MassStorage": http://www.driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/

 

[Cutthroat]

These answers are correct, but I have a P5K deluxe and it has a floppy connector, working and I've used it many times.

 

[lopri]

Yeah. Although I wish the death of floppy more than anyone else, I can't imagine ASUS (or anyone for that matter, other than pre-built boxes) not providing floppy connector on a motherboard. It will take many many years before floppy dies.

 

[Cutthroat]

Originally posted by: lopri
Yeah. Although I wish the death of floppy more than anyone else, I can't imagine ASUS (or anyone for that matter, other than pre-built boxes) not providing floppy connector on a motherboard. It will take many many years before floppy dies.

Although it is quite useless for the most part for me now, all I use it for is the overclock profiles because I formatted my thumb drive NTFS because I had some troubles with BSOD's with fastfat.sys in Vista. Not even good for a BIOS flash anymore because the ROM's are now 2MB.

 

[alaricljs]

vailr: The XP installer will accept a USB floppy as long as your mobo BIOS lies to it, which all current mobos I've worked with do, and most for the last 3 years.

 

[Grinja]

Thanks all for your responses, much appreciated.

 

[nitromullet]

nLite makes slipstreaming CD's really easy. I used to used this for NVRaid with XP.

 

[buddhatb]

The P5K Deluxe does have a Floopy Drive connector on it.


It's located on the top left corner of this Newegg photo.

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