getting SATA drive to work with SOLTEK AMD mobo??
I'm putting together my first puter, the old dell 550 has been a warrior but it is time to upgrade. I'm using a Soltek motherboard (VIA K8T900/SL-K8AV2-RL) with an AMD 64 3000+ CPU. 1 GIG o RAM, 80 gig SATA Maxtor hd (YY080MO), and a Radeon Pro 9600 Pro.
I'm putting together my first puter, the old dell 550 has been a warrior but it is time to upgrade. I'm using a Soltek motherboard (VIA K8T900/SL-K8AV2-RL) with an AMD 64 3000+ CPU. 1 GIG o RAM, 80 gig SATA Maxtor hd (YY080MO), and a Radeon Pro 9600 Pro. I have everything together, she boots up, the CD drive is recognized, and XP pro starts to install, BUT my hard drive is not recognized. How do I correct this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Chris
-Chris
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you have to use the sata driver disk (a floppy "usually") that comes with the mobo or drive. since you have to install the SATA raid drivers before windows can detect such disks in a preinstalled phaze. at once when you begin the xp installation look in the lower part of your screen. there you will see : " press F8 to install third party scsi/sata raid drivers" or something like that.
just follow the installation from there.
just follow the installation from there.
Originally posted by janfebmar:
Quote:you have to use the sata driver disk (a floppy "usually") that comes with the mobo or drive. since you have to install the SATA raid drivers before windows can detect such disks in a preinstalled phaze. at once when you begin the xp installation look in the lower part of your screen. there you will see : " press F8 to install third party scsi/sata raid drivers" or something like that.just follow the installation from there.
Actually its the F6 Key, you will see a small blue bar at the bottom of the screen stating this, just press the F6 key a couple of times and that should do it
Quote:you have to use the sata driver disk (a floppy "usually") that comes with the mobo or drive. since you have to install the SATA raid drivers before windows can detect such disks in a preinstalled phaze. at once when you begin the xp installation look in the lower part of your screen. there you will see : " press F8 to install third party scsi/sata raid drivers" or something like that.just follow the installation from there.
Actually its the F6 Key, you will see a small blue bar at the bottom of the screen stating this, just press the F6 key a couple of times and that should do it
