On Sat, 25 Mar 2006 08:15:51 -0500, you wrote:
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>From: "Hugh Gundersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 3:34 AM
>Subject: Re: SATA Question
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>> YES but I would suggest that you also load the driver software just in
>> case you ever get a SATA Hdd
>> and want to install it.
>
>With my Asus motherboards I have never been given a prompt to install SATA
>drivers and I use SATA hard drives exclusively now. Am I missing something
>important? I have always simply hooked up the SATA power and data cables and
>everything ran fine.
>
>In the early days of USB 2.0 you had to install drivers for it, or it would
>run as USB 1.1. Those drivers were on the CD furnished with the motherboard.
>Now they are in either SP 1 or surely in SP 2 for Windows XP.
>
>I hope I have not been depriving the computers I have built of performance
>by not installing SATA drivers.
>
>Chuck
It could also be a bios thing with the newer MOBOs. the one on this machine is
a Gigabyte 8KNXP
with SATA, SATA RAID, PATA RAID (x2 sockets), PATA (2 usual sockets) and the
proverbial FLOPPY.
The only way I can get to use the SATA drive is to use the Gigabyte CD after XP
is installed - F6
just ignores what I want to do like - installe the SATA drivers from the CD -
perhaps they are just
"Windows" software and won't run in the installation routine?
BTW - Wayne.... You mentioned a Gigabyte MOBO similar to this (mine has the P4
@ 3.2Ghz) with the
AMD 64 939 pin socket.
I have just bought a Gigabyte MOBO with a 3400 CPU "GA-K8NS-pro" -
AMD Athlon 64 3400+ S754 512M cache
2x512MB matched pair Corsair DDR Memory
Gigabyte S754 motherboard GA-K8NS pro
An ATI Radeon 9800pro 128MB AGP graphics card
480W power supply
Any good?
Sir Hugh of Bognor
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