haven't put together a comp in years, how about a little help.

[Martin]

i brought a SATA HD, do I need to load the sata drivers on a floppy to install winxp? does winxp sp2 (or whatever tis up to now) need the floppy?

 

[FleshLight]

I don't think so. Just boot to the cdrom drive that has winxp and you're all set. Or boot to fdisk if you need to partition.

[nik]Forum incorrecto![/nik]

 

[gistech1978]

yes you need the SATA drivers from the floppy, boot with your xp disc, when prompted to install SCSI or RAID drivers, hit F6 or whatever it is.

 

[MustangSVT]

depends on your mobo, some mobos are picky with sata drivers.

 

[Rent]

Depends on the motherboard. Some boards (like the last build I did on a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe) do not require drivers.

Others, most older boards that have SATA ports will require a floppy with drivers so that XP, or whatever your choice of OS is, can find the drive(s).

 

[Martin]

thanks everyone. I know its the wrong forum, but I wanted quick answers.

I got the a shuttle XPC, which doesn't even have space for a floppy drive, so I would assume I won't need a floppy. I'll try without, and if that doesn't work, I'm gonna have to fish the floppy drive out of my old P133 :/

 

[Viper GTS]

The real question is whether the SATA controller is part of the south bridge or a separate add on controller (typically a RAID controller).

If it's part of the south bridge you won't need drivers (just like you wouldn't for southbridge connected ATA). If it's a separate controller on the PCI bus you almost certainly will need drivers.

Viper GTS

 

[MustangSVT]

oh, btw, dont forget to tap on f6 like a horny nerd on a lonely friday night when installing xp

 

[Sphexi]

I have an ABIT IC7-G with the original BIOS (I'm lazy), and when I boot into the WinXP SP1 install disc I have to pop in the SATA drivers. But once that's done it works perfectly. I'd say you're probably all set, supposedly the SP2 versions of XP install discs don't have that problem anymore.

 

[Muadib]

Originally posted by: Martin
thanks everyone. I know its the wrong forum, but I wanted quick answers.

I got the a shuttle XPC, which doesn't even have space for a floppy drive, so I would assume I won't need a floppy. I'll try without, and if that doesn't work, I'm gonna have to fish the floppy drive out of my old P133 :/

What is the model? They make about 20 different models using different chipsets.

 

[amol]

will Nik's head finally explode?

 

[SynthDude2001]

Originally posted by: Amol
will Nik's head finally explode?

If we're lucky.

 

[MustangSVT]

Originally posted by: SynthDude2001

Originally posted by: Amol
will Nik's head finally explode?

If we're lucky.

I wish

 

[cavemanmoron]

Originally posted by: Martin
thanks everyone. I know its the wrong forum, but I wanted quick answers.

I got the a shuttle XPC, which doesn't even have space for a floppy drive, so I would assume I won't need a floppy. I'll try without, and if that doesn't work, I'm gonna have to fish the floppy drive out of my old P133 :/