Nforce SATA drivers on vista

Ronaldo · 27 May 2007 at 23:47

yes its me again done a full format because usb sticks didnt work and the install was only a few days old.

now everything is working but the sata drivers do not install

normally it would say sata controller instead of ATA controller/Standard dual channel...blah blah

installed chipset drivers from nvidia site made no difference, normally windows update finds the drivers and installs, even if i manually try its says its not compatible for the hardware :confused:

any ideas?

Thanks

bledd · 28 May 2007 at 00:16

motherboard model?

Ronaldo · 28 May 2007 at 01:00

bledd. said:
motherboard model?

in sig a8n sli premium mate,

do u know if i meant to set plug and play OS to YEs or No in bios

Augustus · 28 May 2007 at 02:31

Look under 'storage controllers' - third from bottom in your screen dump.

Should find sata and raid stuff in there.

mrochester · 28 May 2007 at 02:52

I have the same motherboard and mine has exactly the same entries in Device Manager. I can't say I've noticed it having an effect on the machine whatsoever. Also, to get USB sticks to work, all you need to do is browse to C:\ and get the driver installation to search there. It'll find and install the drivers when you search that location.

bledd · 28 May 2007 at 10:33

Ronaldo said:
in sig a8n sli premium mate,

do u know if i meant to set plug and play OS to YEs or No in bios

sorry i have sigs turned off right now

that plug & play setting isn't for windows os's i believe, i always have mine off

-what do you have in your pci slots? pci simple communications can be onboard sound, a modem..?

-edit, latest bios is 2006/06/19, drivers for the SI 3114 controller are here http://www.siliconimage.com/support/downloadresults.aspx?pid=28&bios=0&drivers=0&sataraid=0&

Ronaldo · 28 May 2007 at 11:18

funny thing is this is the 1st time i installed windows with "plug n play OS:YES" the other times it installed sata drivers for nforce.

usb stuff work since format/install

looks like i'll be doing another format. msn has got double contacts of every1 :eek:

oh PCI slot has a 56K modem lol just keep it there incase and i put some cables under it. does not affect the OS.

Ronaldo · 28 May 2007 at 13:40

done a re-install with "plug n play OS :No" did not fix the sata driver problem but msn is sorted lol got my main stuff installed so all is good.

did have a nice suprise

standard sata drivers are pretty good

got partition on the 320GB so u can see the dip but performace is good