Socket A mobos and SATA drives?

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I'm building a little side project, and the only HDD I have is a 40GB SATA.

This is an old Socket A system, and the motherboard is an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe.

So I plugged everything in, and it boots up fine, but I need to format the drive and install XP.

Now the bios doesn't see SATA drive anywhere within itself, but if I set the boot sequence to RAID (only option which has anything to do with SATA), I can boot from the drive.

So the board and bios can deffo work with it SATA drives, but when I boot from the XP cd, it tells me there is no drive to install to.

If I plug the same drive into my main rig, and install XP, it sees it no problem, so I can only assume that my newer MSI can deal with SATA at that level and the ASUS cannot?

Is there any way I can make it work, short of trying to source and IDE HDD? I'd really rather not put any more money into this machine.
 
If i remember correctly, with socket A you need to install SATA drivers before installing the OS. (same with 754 & 939???) Can't remember the exact details as it was so long ago! Maybe someone else can explain further.
 
don't have the sata driver for nforce on the xp disc

do this on another machine..

copy xp disc to C:\XPCD

download and setup driverpacks 'base' and the 'mass storage drivers'

http://driverpacks.net/

point it at your XPCD dir and integrate the drivers (has pretty much all sata drivers)

then use nlite to rebuild the disc.



now your xp disc will have all the sata drivers it'll ever need

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or use nlite and this thread to get just the nforce driver.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51140
 
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bledd. said:
don't have the sata driver for nforce on the xp disc

do this on another machine..

copy xp disc to C:\XPCD

download and setup driverpacks 'base' and the 'mass storage drivers'

http://driverpacks.net/

point it at your XPCD dir and integrate the drivers (has pretty much all sata drivers)

then use nlite to rebuild the disc.



now your xp disc will have all the sata drivers it'll ever need

---------------------



or use nlite and this thread to get just the nforce driver.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=51140
Click to expand...

THANKS!! :D
 
I HAD THE SAME MOBO some years ago... i will dig out the drivers for you.

but you can still get them on asus web site, be easy if you have a floppy drive to install them on.
 
they're in that thread i linked to, all ready to be used, plus the ones in there are the best version
 
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