Nforce 4 sata drivers

[Oceanic]

can anyone point me to the correct files to use at the f6 screen with a floppy on an nforce4 ultra board? looked and looked...

thanks

 

[rivethead]

I didn't need to do anything with with SATA drive.

I built a system this weekend with a Chaintech VNF Ultra and one drive: a Seagate SATA 160GB drive.

The Chaintech immediately recognized the Seagate SATA. I did not need to hit F6 and install any drivers.

 

[Oceanic]

yeah i read somewhere that was the case but still saw people messing with drivers for some reason...guess ill find out

in a single device system raid is disabled right? what other settings do i need to know?

 

[rivethead]

Well, I'm REALLY new at all this stuff, so you might want a second opinion.

I believe you are correct. With a single drive, RAID is disabled automatically.

As for other settings....I haven't got that far yet. I know after putting all the hardware together, the first thing I did (after making sure everything (DVD player, HD, memory, CPU was recognized) was go into the bios and make sure the dvd player was the first thing to boot.

Sorry, I know that's not much help. I haven't got any farther than that as I'm having difficulties getting an OS on the system.

 

[Oceanic]

yeah lol you hit f6 when you boot from the xp cd to install a raid driver so windows can use it, other wise its fubar i think...

anyone know?

 

[rivethead]

So you're thinking my OS problem may be because I haven't installed some drivers? I don't think so because I was able to format the hard drive and put some files on the drive (for example, scandisk is on the drive and I can run that from dos).

 

[joshc]

Originally posted by: Oceanic
yeah lol you hit f6 when you boot from the xp cd to install a raid driver so windows can use it, other wise its fubar i think...

anyone know?

You don't need any raid drivers if you are running a single drive and thus in a non-RAID config. If you have plugged the SATA drive into one of the SATA ports hooked up to the native controller(nforce4 chipset) then you shouldn't need any drivers on a floppy and no need for F6. Make sure to check your mobo manual to see which ports hook up to the native controller.

 

[Oceanic]

if you say so... heh

 

[Horsepower]

looks like they are on the cd and you have to build the floppy

from Anand Chaintech thread:
"What was stated is to load the SATA driver then the Array Driver (two seperate drivers) in that order from a floppy disk with your install inf files in the root directory along with drivers. Essentially, copy the contents of the WinXP directory on the included drivers CD to a floppy, press F6 during WinXP install boot (this apply's to any WinNT-based OS, such as Win2K or Win2K3 Server) and load the drivers that are found in that order."

I have problems on my Epox everytime I install a new build of 64 bit windows. Epox, like many manufacturers, do not think 64 bit is real yet.

 

[MrChad]

The nForce SATA controller has IDE emulation, i.e. it looks and acts like an IDE controller to Windows setup. As a result, the generic IDE drivers in Windows will work and should interact with the SATA controller just fine.

 

[Oceanic]

sounds like that would affect the speed wouldnt it?

 

[Oceanic]

anyone else know anything?

 

[rivethead]

Well just to be safe, I followed the directions on page 50 of the Chaintech VNF4 Ultra Users Guide.

I copied all the files into floppy, hit F6, hit S just like steps 1 through 4 say. Step 5 says "Then the installation program will detect two drivers".

THAT didn't happen for me. Instead the installation program kept asking me to insert a "manufacturers drive disk" (or something like that).

I hope you have better luck. I give up.

 

[MrChad]

Originally posted by: Oceanic
sounds like that would affect the speed wouldnt it?

It just allows the operating system and drivers to interact with it as if it were an IDE controller. It doesn't affect the speed on the controller.

 

[Oceanic]

so whats rives problem then? wont i run into the same thing? grr

 

[rivethead]

My problem is somehow I'm a dumbass.....On my Gateway computer I copied the drivers over from CD to floppy, verified they were there, and then carried the whole floppy drive over to the new computer and installed it. Then I went into BIOS and had the new system recognize the floppy. Then I ran the OS installation and got the problems I described. Later, after I made my earlier post, I moved the floppy back into the Gateway and discovered that the floppy has somehow been reformatted and wiped clean during my transfer.

Don't know how I did it, but I did it?

Strange. I haven't tried again yet.