Newbie SATA question

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sagus

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Sorry for the newb question, could not find an answer using search.

When I built my current computer in 2003, I had to use a SATA driver floppy to get the system to recognize my Raptor. When I replaced the motherboard 6 months ago (admittedly older model Asus), I had to pull out the old FDD and install the drivers from floppy again. If I remember correctly, the motherboard would recognize them, but windows would not install correctly without the drivers installed.

I just ordered a new E6600 system with the Asus P5W DH Deluxe motherboard, 74GB raptor main drive, and 320GB Seagate storage drive.

I noticed that this motherboard does not come with a floppy. Will I need to download SATA drivers and use a floppy, or is the support built in on the new generation motherboards?

Thanks in advance, you guys are a wealth of knowledge. I'd never be able to build my new baby (let alone my original) without you.
 
With the newer motherboards the sata is built into the chipset so you don't need a driver for the main sata ports. Mind you a lot of boards also have an extra controller built on to give you more ports. If you ran it off one of those you would need a driver but you can get them off the cd that came with it and make a floppy disk.
 
you should still use the driver on the floppy. windows uses generic drivers for installation, so you may or may not encounter problems. however, you could always install the proper drivers once windows is installed. you shouldn't have a problem with the generic driver, but if you do, load up that fdd, hehe.
 
otherwise, you could also slipstream the driver into your XP install CD.
 
enginurd said:
you should still use the driver on the floppy. windows uses generic drivers for installation, so you may or may not encounter problems. however, you could always install the proper drivers once windows is installed. you shouldn't have a problem with the generic driver, but if you do, load up that fdd, hehe.
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Yea you want to load the chipset drivers once you get into windows. The generic ones work most of the time to load windows though.
 
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