stupid question about sata drivers on A8N-E

[plion]

This is for a single Sata drive NOT on raid.

1. The Asus cd gives me two drivers to make a disk of: Sil3114 Sata/Raid and Nvidia Nv1 Raid, I'm guessing I have to use teh Sil3114?

2. During the windows install after I press F6 do I install both of the things listed or just one?

 

[CraigRT]

Have you tried not using a driver at all?

If it's the nV controller, it should be installable natively, then once windows starts, you just install the nForce unified drivers.

on every nForce machine I've setup with a SATA boot drive, I've never once had to press F6.

 

[danklumpp]

Sometimes the motherboard doesn't have the right drivers installed. Try downloading the Nvidia nForce drivers from their website and intalling them beforce loading Windows

 

[plion]

How do you do that?

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: plion
How do you do that?

Have you not tried just booting without the drivers?

if the controller is nVidia, it should work fine without them....

 

[plion]

Well on my dfi lanparty ultra-d board I would always get a bsod while installing windows, only way to get it to work was with the included drivers in their floppy disk, but I returned the board and I'm now using an A8N-E so I figured I had to do the same thing since it's the same hard drive, but I'll try installing without the drivers like you said, this won't cause any problems? I always thought it was necessary to use the drivers when using Sata drives... thanks anyways

 

[CraigRT]

Originally posted by: plion
Well on my dfi lanparty ultra-d board I would always get a bsod while installing windows, only way to get it to work was with the included drivers in their floppy disk, but I returned the board and I'm now using an A8N-E so I figured I had to do the same thing since it's the same hard drive, but I'll try installing without the drivers like you said, this won't cause any problems? I always thought it was necessary to use the drivers when using Sata drives... thanks anyways

Honestly if it works without a hitch during install, you're gold. Get into Windows, install the nForce4 drivers, and you're set!

PS. Just FYI I setup my A8N-E system at home tonight. Did not need to boot using F6 🙂

 

[Gerbil333]

Originally posted by: CraigRT

Originally posted by: plion
Well on my dfi lanparty ultra-d board I would always get a bsod while installing windows, only way to get it to work was with the included drivers in their floppy disk, but I returned the board and I'm now using an A8N-E so I figured I had to do the same thing since it's the same hard drive, but I'll try installing without the drivers like you said, this won't cause any problems? I always thought it was necessary to use the drivers when using Sata drives... thanks anyways

Honestly if it works without a hitch during install, you're gold. Get into Windows, install the nForce4 drivers, and you're set!

PS. Just FYI I setup my A8N-E system at home tonight. Did not need to boot using F6 🙂

My A8N-E didn't need any drivers for WinXP setup to detect my 74GB Raptor and I didn't install any SATA drivers later either. It's been running since June.

 

[plion]

Yea I just tried it without using the drivers, it worked fine, thanks for the help.