SATA?

[ComputerWizKid]

I have an A7N8X Deluxe First of all any one that has (Or has had) this board hows the SATA implementation? and I'm looking at a 160 GB Seagate SATA drive if I enable sata first and install the drivers and then use thier drive copying utily (I assusme they have one) will I have to re install windows? as I really don't want to have to do that? because I have alot of stuff on this computer

 

[Matthias99]

I haven't used that board, but...

I'm looking at a 160 GB Seagate SATA drive if I enable sata first and install the drivers and then use thier drive copying utily (I assusme they have one) will I have to re install windows? as I really don't want to have to do that? because I have alot of stuff on this computer

Of course not. Windows doesn't care if the drive is physically ATA, SATA, SCSI, a RAMDrive, or something even more esoteric.

 

[Diademed]

The sata implementation is fine.... I'm using that board with 2x80gb Maxtor Sata's raided right now. You may notice a performance gain, you may not.... I don't know if I'd try a drive copy-utility, I tried that and had nothing but hassles. Just re-install. Everything will run faster afterwards anyway. (thanks to the innate design of Windoze)

 

[The Boston Dangler]

On any socket A board with SATA, the SATA comes from a 2-device controller (Promise or similar) built onto the mobo. Notice I said onto, not built in. No Socket A platform supports SATA natively. With my board (MSI K7N2 Delta ILSR, very similar to the Asus), the first thing to do to use SATA was building a RAID array, even for 1 drive. Once the Promise controller was set up, I installed Windows. When it says "Press F6 to install a SCSI blah blah blah" press F6. Then you'll need to insert the RAID driver into the floppy drive. The Windows disc must not be removed from the CD drive, as it doesn't support multi-session. And it demands Drive A: .