Need some help.

[demetrics]

I have an ASUS Mobo, K8T800 Deluxe.

Antec Silver Performance Case
AMD 939 3500+
ANTEC TRUE BLUE 480W
1 gig of Corsair
NEC DVD 16x burner
160G Seagate HD
Windows XP OEM SP 1a
6800 GT AGP 8x

I would like all the help I can get please.
I want to use SATA but I heard that it can be confusing setting up the drives. I am not trying to set up raid yet. I hard you need to set up the OS first with the drivers or I am not sure could somebody help me out? Thanks

I have been hearing about some problems with the ASUS MOBO but I am not sure if it is mostly the 754 or is it all of the 64 AMDs. I mean the 754, 940 and 939?

 

[Creig]

As far as I know, all you have to do to use a SATA drive when setting up a fresh WinXP install is to watch near the beginning of the installation. You will have a blue screen and at the bottom you will see various filenames being displayed as they're being loaded. After a minute or so, you will see a message saying to "Press F6 if you need to install a third party SCSI or RAID driver".

You need to be paying attention for this as it will auto-close after a few seconds and will continue to attempt to install windows without having the proper driver.

Press F6 and in a few seconds press "S" to specify additional devices. Put the driver disk in your floppy drive and hit OK. It should access the drive then ask you to choose which driver to use (if there are multiple ones for different operating systems). Choose the one for your operating system (XP) and it will then load it. You can then continue with the XP installation.

 

[imported_Bunter]

The CD that came with your motherboard has the stuff needed to make the floppy disk required after selecting F6. The directions are usually about as clear as tar, but there may be a readme file in the directory that will help you.

When it works, it is extremely simple. mechBgon might be able to answer the specifics of that motherboard. Poor guy gets drug into every SATA drive installation out here, it seems.