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SATA Drivers

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Gawd
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I've seemed to misplace my motherboard disk with the SATA drivers so I can load XP onto my system and was wondering if anyone could help me find them online. I DID look on my motherboards website, but no luck.(at least that I saw, could have went past it as I'm in a rush to get to work) Anywho, its a DFI Lanparty UT NF3 GB. My SATA drive gets here on wednesday from the egg, so please help!!! Thanks.
 
i am not familiar with that board but if it is newer and has onboard sata and you have a xp with sp2 it should see the drive. I have a abit duramax and i did'nt need any drivers to load xp on to my sata drive.
 
Thanks to the poster who found it. Also, I read the discription, and I'm using them as raid yet, because I only have one coming...I'm poor, anywho, to me it sounded like I didn't need to use the driver if I'm useing only one HDD...am I correct? Thanks again.
 
Anyone again...my hdd's should be here today or tommorow, hopefully today :D
 
hahaha sorry man, no you do not need the drivers if you are using onboard SATA and only one drive, or at least that is what i am led to believe after putting windows on to 4 or 5 diffrent SATA drives with friends and what not. If you do need drivers let us know becuase that will be the first case i have ever seen.

Make sure you have the latest XP, even though that mean SP2(i hate you sp2) :mad: :mad:
 
Will do. Will SP1 not work on sata drives? I've not upgraded because of all the problems I read about, but I will download it if need be.
 
OT: SP2 is pretty darn good, with some tweaks. Also, much of the newer software coming out is designed with it in mind. Yes, the first thing I do is open services.msc and disable the firewall, security center, and automatic updates, as I prefer to do these things myself. Once you turn off the bloatware they added, it's pretty efficient. I'm only showing 20 background processes and 97MB of RAM usage on my SP2 installation, and that includes Daemon-Tools, my IM client, NV Mixer, and the NV Display driver. This box doesn't even make one complete cycle at the XP kernel boot splash screen and is my fastest booting and most responsive system yet, and that's only with a Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 160GB PATA HDD. Yes there is some stuff you have to tweak, but SP2 is still pretty darn good. /OT
 
Of their services of the SP2 compared to the SP1, the SP2 seems to be slimmed down to the services that you only need while SP1 has too many unnecessary services on.

Ahhh, what else is there to tweak besides services and everything related in the System part?

-J.
 
What can I turn off when I do download SP2? I'm not going to now because I will have to again when I install the new hdd. But what to disable? Right now I have auto updates disabled. How do I turn off the firewall?
 
Isn't it easy? Look into your control panel and click on "Firewall". It's all there.

-J.
 
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