XP install question

Numbnuts

Numbnuts

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Ive just upgraded my pc and given my brother the old one. Its an old msi mobo with a 3000+ bartons cpu. When i installed xp i had to use 2 floppys with raid drivers and i think, chipset drivers. The only thing he has different is a new hdd which is a seagate 80gig. This has jumpers for sata 1 and sata 2. He has set it to 1 because thats what the mobo can see, but when installing xp it says it cant see the hdd.
Any ideas please
 
The SATA jumper reduces the speed to 150 whatever it is per seconds. I had to do this on my SFF iDEQ to egt the nForce 2 chip to pickup a SATA2 drive. Find the latest SATA drivers for the chipset, and have them on a floppy. Or better still, use nLite to put them on the XP CD, along with all your other drivers and settings, and ditch the floppy drive all together
 
I was going to suggest Nlite. XP has a habbit of not trusting un-assigned drivers and will just ignore them (Nforce2 and 3 especially). With Nlite you can import them into the OS and make your own XP that includes them as well as a completely unattended install. You'll probably make a few beer mats but if you stuff the OS as much as the people at my work seem to you will learn to love Nlite:p
 
its fairly commonly accepted that if you have had XP installed for more than 6 months, its time to reinstall it!
 
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