Good luck with Intel tech support. It's taken me months to get a solution for warranty support from them. It's a slow motion ballet of email messages.
I gotta say tho', this is really odd. I've installed XP with SATA drives on probably a dozen different chipsets and never run into this in a non-RAID environment. Have you tried the RAID driver? I don't recall seeing that in the thread. Driver page: http://tinyurl.com/6c6g5n > -----Original Message----- > Well, you may have *thought* you did, but like me, you probably had > EIDE mode enabled for the SATA ports. This works, but then none of the > SATA ports are using AHCI, so they're degraded - e.g. slower and not > hot swappable. By default WinXP (even SP3) doesn't come with SATA > (AHCI) drivers, so you couldn't possibly have ever installed WinXP to > a true SATA drive without jumping through hoops. > > Of course, it's possible to slipstream in SATA drivers, so if you're > using a custom WinXP disk this may have been the case. > > I didn't say the mobo didn't come with a cdrom. It did. But WinXP > won't install SATA drivers from anything but a floppy. I've searched > the cdrom and there are no floppy files or instructions how to make > one. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
