SATA Woes

[soonerfan1]

Recently had to reinstall windows, reformatted C partition on SATA drive(where windows XP was installed), added an 80 gig IDE, installed windows on it and ubuntu, both installations went ok but I'm having trouble getting SATA drivers and modem installed on XP.

I ran the driver disk from mobo mfg. to install the drivers, booted back into windows, it detected ide controllers, sata, modem etc. things seem to be ok with installation, and appears to have located the proper driver files (briefly starts showing the graphic of the folders with the files being transported from one to the other) but then I get the following error:

Cannot Install This Hardware

There was a problem installing this hardware:

NVIDIA MCP2S Serial ATA Controller(v2.6)

An error occurred during the intallation of the device

This installation package is not supported by this processor type. Contact your
product vendor.



Same message with parallel ata and sata, the modem, which is pci, gives the following error message:

Cannot Install this Hardware

The hardware was not installed because the wizard cannot find the necessary software



I installed windows from the same cd last year on just the sata and had no probs and the modem even had the necessary driver files in windows, It installed without a hitch.

Anyone have any ideas? I've searched alot on the web but haven't seen much help

MSI K7n2 Delta2 LSR
Windows XP home

BTW, Ubuntu, (which is also installed on the 80 gig ide) has no problems with the sata drive

 

[stoma]

The first thing I'd do is install one piece of hardware at a time. When you get one working, install the next.

You shouldn't need drivers for a sata drive, unless you meant you have a sata controller card that you needed drivers for. If this is the case you may have a bad sata card.

 

[Roguestar]

What stoma said. Try formatting again and installing just on the SATA drive. Then add the IDE drive and format that under windows. My SATA drive didn't need any drivers at all when installing.

 

[soonerfan1]

Thanks for the replies guys, I don't have a sata controller card stoma, it's onboard. I haven't had any problems intalling any of the other hardware, even changed the video and sound cards, but when it comes to these 3 items I'm having this issue.

Windows will not even recognize the sata drive right now so that's why I thought it was a driver issue with the sata controller.

 

[stoma]

Originally posted by: soonerfan1
Thanks for the replies guys, I don't have a sata controller card stoma, it's onboard. I haven't had any problems intalling any of the other hardware, even changed the video and sound cards, but when it comes to these 3 items I'm having this issue.

Windows will not even recognize the sata drive right now so that's why I thought it was a driver issue with the sata controller.

Check out your bios settings (what mb do you have?). My bios has SATA settings...check to see that your SATA ports are enabled.

 

[soonerfan1]

Yea thanks stoma. I had enabled sata in the bios, in fact I've pretty much concluded that it must be something with windows since the sata drive works fine when I boot into ubuntu.

Motherboard is MSI K7N2 Delta-2

 

[Zepper]

Make sure you have all your windows service packs and other updates and patches from M$ installed. There are quite a few hardware support patches in the Service Packs and updates.


.bh.

 

[soonerfan1]

That's a good idea Zepper but I have already done all windoze updates, as well as all updates from MSI for the mobo.