Installing SATA Drivers, but have lost them

snazzy_dazzy · 5 May 2007 at 15:53

Hello, as you may know from previous threads my pc has crashed.

I had a root around in the attic and found a 320gb external USB 2.0 HDD.

Saved all my stuff on it. That took some time :eek:

Went 20mins ago to install windows again. All ready, then I realised I had lost my sata Drivers which I had got with my evga 680i.

Does anyone have any spares they can upload or some places to download.

Will any sata drivers do??

Cheers

Fothsn · 5 May 2007 at 15:56

Maybe try the Manufactures webby??

Thats the first place you should look for any drivers as there official.

http://www.evga.com/support/drivers/

snazzy_dazzy · 5 May 2007 at 15:58

fothsn said:
Maybe try the Manufactures webby?? Thats the first place you should look for any drivers as there official.

Tried that. They aint downloading
http://www.evga.com/support/drivers/

snazzy_dazzy · 5 May 2007 at 15:59

Also I dont think raid is what I want.

P.S just found a floppy disc with my handwriting on saying sata drivers.

Does it matter that this was for my ASrock board? :confused:

Fothsn · 5 May 2007 at 16:02

snazzy_dazzy said:
Also I dont think raid is what I want.

P.S just found a floppy disc with my handwriting on saying sata drivers.

Does it matter that this was for my ASrock board?

Does windows detect the SATA drive? No I believe you need to use the Main boards official SATA driver, which should be from NVidia as its they’re chipset, I’ll have a look on their website and see if I can locate the drivers for you.

EDIT: I cant seem to find any SATA drivers only hotfixes, :confused:

maybe someone with the same board might upload them?

snazzy_dazzy · 5 May 2007 at 16:10

fothsn said:
Does windows detect the SATA drive? No I believe you need to use the Main boards official SATA driver, which should be from NVidia as its they’re chipset, I’ll have a look on their website and see if I can locate the drivers for you.

Much obliged!

snazzy_dazzy · 5 May 2007 at 16:10

bugger!

Anyone with sata drivers for the 680i????

stickroad · 5 May 2007 at 16:11

Sorry please explain to me why you need drivers for a Hard Disk, im confused?

snazzy_dazzy · 5 May 2007 at 16:17

you need it when you install windows on a sata HDD to get lots of features speed etc

stickroad · 5 May 2007 at 16:18

Is that like just for the EVGA board or something, never heard of that before?

Fothsn · 5 May 2007 at 16:19

stickroad said:
Sorry please explain to me why you need drivers for a Hard Disk, im confused?

Some Motherboards with SATA hard drives don’t get recognised by windows setup so you need to install a driver just before the windows setup screen to tell it there’s a hard drive attached to the comp, that’s the best I can explain it

stickroad · 5 May 2007 at 16:26

fothsn said:
Some Motherboards with SATA hard drives don’t get recognised by windows setup so you need to install a driver just before the windows setup screen to tell it there’s a hard drive attached to the comp, that’s the best I can explain it

http://evga.com/support/680i/

If its a bug which is most likely the case just update your bios.

snazzy_dazzy · 5 May 2007 at 18:07

Anyone.

This is really annoying. I meant to reinstall windows Hours ago

Does anyone have a eVGA 680i sata driver they can upload

stickroad · 5 May 2007 at 18:13

Did you try the above?

snazzy_dazzy · 5 May 2007 at 18:35

stickroad said:
Did you try the above?

dude. Have you installed a sata Drive before??

You need to install the drivers first for xp

that fixes another prob

stinka · 5 May 2007 at 18:51

i never had this problem with my evga 680i i did a dual boot install on about a month ago

the only drivers you need are if youre running raid on 2 or more drives which i am (raid 0)

stickroad · 5 May 2007 at 19:00

No i ahvent installing a SATA DRIVE Before and i didnt need to, all you do is put it in connect it up format it then install windows.

Surely you only need drivers when setting up RAID?