Question for Asus A8n-Sli-Premium

[phillyman36]

Quick questions for those who have this board and have Sata drive but no raid. I see some people tend to have problems with their drives and some dont if your work fine in a no raid sata confg., please tell me what you did to install it ie di you have to install drivers, was it plug and play etc etc. If you did install drivers which ones did you use. Thanks for any info.

 

[Superguy]

I have a RAID and "normal" drives hanging off of mine. I slipstreamed the 6.66's in there and it seems to work fine.

Just use the text mode drivers for the install, either with a floppy or slipstreamed into your OS install.

 

[wanderer27]

I have a SATA and a PATA, and install was a breeze.

I hooked everything up, and when I was ready to install Windows I just unplugged the power to the PATA drive to prevent OS installation going to this drive.

In BIOS turn off the NVRAID and the Silicon SATA options. Note that under the IDE menu there are options for SATA as well, leave these enabled.

Turn on the power, install XP, and as soon as you get into Windows (second boot) install the NVidia (6.65) Drivers - omit the IDE portion of these.

Reboot and enjoy - and don't forget to plug your PATA back in if you have one

BTW - I use 6.65 instead of 6.66 because they're WHQL, and 6.66 are more for Win 2k/2003.


Also I should add, that on first power up be sure to set all your BIOS options. For example, my MBs were defaulted to OC, the one wanted to run at 5000+ MHz :Q , and Video on both wanted to output to PCI instead of PCIEX. Nothing like booting up to a blank screen.

 

[mode101wpb]

All I did was plug in my SATA connector to motherboard and boot, no issues. I only have one SATA device which is my Hitachi T7K250 HD. Plug and play for my new set-up as windows XP recognized everything on 1st boot.