*This is alittle long winded so please bear with me*
I just received my new ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe MB which I'm using in my new gaming box. For the purpose of aesthetics and air flow (I know it won't be any faster) I wanted my optical drived hooked up via SATA. So with my MB order I bought a IDE/SATA adapter.
Cutting right to the heart of the matter I installed XP (though said optical drive hooked up via SATA) hich had the nForrce drivers slipped streamed in, I figured they'd be needed to install windows (I should mention here I'm a nOOb with SATA and the two others times I've worked with SATA I had to do so by loading the the drivers via floppy. I hate floppys, didn't want a floppy in my new box, even temporarily, hence going for the slipsteamed CD)
So I got XP up and running no problem. Like with any new setup, I put in the MB's Driver CD and proceed to load all that stuff in. Problem was that when it came to the nForce Drives. My system froze up. I couldn't figure out why, and since I thought it had been using the slipped streamed drivers all along I never suspected that it was the nForce Drivers, however that turned out to be the problem.
I figured it out when I did finally started removing drivers to see what would happen. I was shocked when Windows loaded the standed drivers in place of the nForce ones. But that that raised new questions:
1. XP doesn't have SATA drivers, so how come the standard IDE drivers worked?
2. Why didn't the the nForce drivers work, since they are the SATA drivers.
I have a theory of why it works this way but it's late and this post is long enough, but you folks have any official answers, please tell me, I'm dying to know.
I just received my new ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe MB which I'm using in my new gaming box. For the purpose of aesthetics and air flow (I know it won't be any faster) I wanted my optical drived hooked up via SATA. So with my MB order I bought a IDE/SATA adapter.
Cutting right to the heart of the matter I installed XP (though said optical drive hooked up via SATA) hich had the nForrce drivers slipped streamed in, I figured they'd be needed to install windows (I should mention here I'm a nOOb with SATA and the two others times I've worked with SATA I had to do so by loading the the drivers via floppy. I hate floppys, didn't want a floppy in my new box, even temporarily, hence going for the slipsteamed CD)
So I got XP up and running no problem. Like with any new setup, I put in the MB's Driver CD and proceed to load all that stuff in. Problem was that when it came to the nForce Drives. My system froze up. I couldn't figure out why, and since I thought it had been using the slipped streamed drivers all along I never suspected that it was the nForce Drivers, however that turned out to be the problem.
I figured it out when I did finally started removing drivers to see what would happen. I was shocked when Windows loaded the standed drivers in place of the nForce ones. But that that raised new questions:
1. XP doesn't have SATA drivers, so how come the standard IDE drivers worked?
2. Why didn't the the nForce drivers work, since they are the SATA drivers.
I have a theory of why it works this way but it's late and this post is long enough, but you folks have any official answers, please tell me, I'm dying to know.
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