Which board for an IDE drive user?

[Devenhill]

I've been getting the impression that trying to load IDE drivers when building a C2D system around 965 chipsets can be problematic due to their lack of native IDE support.

I'd like to upgrade to a 965-based board, but not if I have to buy new HDD and CDR/DVD drives. I don't own any SATA drives, only IDE ones.

Are there any C2D boards which have native IDE support, so my install can go as smoothly as possible?

If not, can someone give me a quick guide as to what drivers I might need on floppy or USB stick during the installation?

Many thanks

 

[bobbyz]

Just a newbie here but don't almost all the boards have the PATA connector for your old IDE stuff?

 

[Devenhill]

Yes they do, but 965 chipsets don't have native IDE ports - they require a third-party IDE driver to be loaded before IDE drives work...

...and if I'm trying to load the drivers from an IDE drive... you see the problem?

 

[ribbon13]

Then include said drivers in the copy windows and reburn? put the drivers on a floppy? get a usb floppy if you dont want a floppy drive in the machine? join the rest of us and buy a SATA hard drive? A E6600 is like what? $310? A really nice 500GB 16MB cache SATA2 drive is like what $140?

Aye aye aye

 

[Jester666]

nVidia chipsets have native IDE support. the 650i is reasonably priced and should OC well too.

 

[Devenhill]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Then include said drivers in the copy windows and reburn? put the drivers on a floppy? get a usb floppy if you dont want a floppy drive in the machine? join the rest of us and buy a SATA hard drive? A E6600 is like what? $310? A really nice 500GB 16MB cache SATA2 drive is like what $140?

When during the installation would I need to install the relevant drivers from floppy or USB? I'd have to load them before starting to load XP (or my CD drive won't be found), and I don't know how to do that. What should I do?

 

[Heidfirst]

get a 650i Ultra or SLI mobo

 

[ribbon13]

Originally posted by: Devenhill

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Then include said drivers in the copy windows and reburn? put the drivers on a floppy? get a usb floppy if you dont want a floppy drive in the machine? join the rest of us and buy a SATA hard drive? A E6600 is like what? $310? A really nice 500GB 16MB cache SATA2 drive is like what $140?

When during the installation would I need to install the relevant drivers from floppy or USB? I'd have to load them before starting to load XP (or my CD drive won't be found), and I don't know how to do that. What should I do?

I'm not familiar with the exact problem your talking about, but by the El Torito standards, a generic IDE driver (AHCI) works just fine... The windows disc will boot, and then when it says 'press F6' at the bottom, you do so.

 

[BladeVenom]

Wasn't the Biostar P965 board suppose to have a better IDE controller?