nForce 4 Ultra: Serial ATA

[B S D]

Hello,

I have the Chaintech VNF4 Ultra, and the manual says that I will need to hit F6 during the Windows XP setup to load drivers for the nForce 4 Serial ATA chipset if I will be installing to a Serial ATA drive.

Is this true?

Thanks,
David

 

[imported_Kensai]

I'm not sure.. I believe that the nForce 3/4 chipsets has native support fo SATA drives, but not RAID. You *will* need to use F6 RAID drivers, but I don't know about SATA.

 

[slash196]

No, you only need drivers if you're installing a RAID array.

 

[ahurtt]

As mentioned, Windows should install ok with a SATA drive if you are not installing on RAID. However, I would still install the nVidia nForce chipset drivers for the SATA controller after windows installs since they offer better performance than the default windows ones.

 

[keeleysam]

It will install w/o Floppy, jsut be sure to disable RAID in the BIOS.