SOLVED -- Need i865/ICH5 SATA Windows install drivers

[Farmer]

Can anyone help? My computer's registry became corrupted, and since the dumbass MSI mobo has a faulty FDD controller, I cant get Windows Recovery to pick up my SATA drive.

So, anyway, I'm doing the recovery on my P4 system, but I need this driver for Windows setup to pick up the SATA drive. Can anyone help me out?

This particular motherboard is the ASUS P4P800-VM, 865G chipset and SATA controller integrated into the ICH5 southbridge.

 

[stevty2889]

you shouldn't need the driver to get windows to see the sata drive on that board..I just installed windows on a sata drive with that motherboard, and I didn't need the floppy..Is this the only hard drive in the system? What settings do you have in the bios, Make sure raid is turned off, you can also have the drive emulated as a PATA drive.

EDIT: by windows recovery..what are you refering to? Are you booting with the windows cd and going to the recorvery console or are you trying to do a repair install(which is what I would recomend), or are you using floppy disks?

 

[Farmer]

stevty2889:

Thanks for your help. I found the ICH5 drivers off of Intel's website, used them. The Recovery Console detected the SATA drive and the Windows install on it. I dont really know if loading those drivers were necessary, since I didnt try w/o loading them; important thing is they worked.

Since I was using this system as sort of a piggyback to work on my other systems HDD (since the other system has a non-functional FDD controller and a SATA controller (VIA 8237?) that requires FD-loaded drivers), the primary boot drive on it was a PATA device. Having that being the boot HDD means that my needs-fixin HDD remains relatively untouched outside the Recovery Console.

And yes, I mean the Recovery Console of off an XP CD. I got the procedure for manually backing up and applying old registry files off of the MS Knowledge Base (I think article 318159? Not sure). It gave me step-by-step instructions on console commands (simply deleting the corrupt files and replacing them with older ones), and, surprisingly for something from MS, it worked like a charm. Repair install would've been my first choice as well.

Thanks again.

Mystery is the cause of the corruption. I just finished playing BF2 demo and decided to reboot my system, and the error came up....

 

[stevty2889]

glad I could help

 

[Werty]

Sir, can u give me or send me a coppy of that ICH5 driver sir? i cant seem to find anymore and only find for ICH5-R...

nilz052378@yaho.com

thanks