XP onto SATA

tyranus · 18 Apr 2006 at 14:59

i've just brought an ASUS K8N4-E DELUXE PCI-E mobo, got all the stuff out of the box, no SATA driver floppy. Great.

A scan of the manual indicates that there should be a section to create a drivers floppy from the CD. ok, except on my CD the is no way to create a floppy.

does anyone have any ideas? i never had this trouble with my old msi mobo, i dont wanna splash out more cash on yet another mobo

wouldn't have a clue of how to slip stream, etc, and asus technical support seems terrible

modo77 · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:04

You can get the sata drivers off the asus site.
http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

tyranus · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:09

yeah, i've downloaded some, but they are simply 2 small files. will they work?

modo77 · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:12

If thats what it gave you yes

Stick it on a floppy and see if they work

Also not sure on your mb but my asus has 2 sata adapters and I got the wrong set of drivers first time. And had the drive plugged into the other adapter. Took me a while to figure out what i'd done wrong.

Datamonkey · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:12

they will work fine,

as you boot up the xp cd press f6 to install a driver, it will read the floppy and then carry on.

It may even be a case that you dont need a driver at all.

On intel rigs i have never had to install the sata driver unless i was running it in raid mode.

Not sure with amd stuff though.

hope that helps

tyranus · 18 Apr 2006 at 15:14

thanks guys, going fo it, i'll let ya know

tyranus · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:43

wierd...getting to windows load screen, pressing f6 but nothing is happening. in fact when it states that a drive cannot be found and you can press f3 i cannot do that either.

the keyboard is a normal purple connector version logitech, i forget the exact type, anyone have any ideas? i am thinking of getting a cheap usb keyboard and trying that in the various usb ports.

GordyR · 20 Apr 2006 at 10:06

Does the keyboard have an F-Lock key? My Logitech does and it's annoying as I have to press the F-Lock key first to enable the "F" keys. Everytime I reboot the "F" Keys are disabled again until I press this key.

Dutch Guy · 20 Apr 2006 at 10:11

I think it takes a while for the next screen to display, do you get the screen like on this page?

tyranus · 20 Apr 2006 at 10:48

GordyR said:
Does the keyboard have an F-Lock key? My Logitech does and it's annoying as I have to press the F-Lock key first to enable the "F" keys. Everytime I reboot the "F" Keys are disabled again until I press this key.

aha! yes it does, i think you have it. thanks, i'll try it when i get home

GordyR · 20 Apr 2006 at 10:51

tyranus said:
aha! yes it does, i think you have it. thanks, i'll try it when i get home

I had a feeling that would be it.

It had me miffed when I first installed XP with this keyboard. Just remember that after pressing F6 you still have to wait for all the other drivers to load before it brings up the selection screen. It doesn't come up instantly upon pressing the button.

The_KiD · 20 Apr 2006 at 10:51

Very good slipstreaming guide here, it is a simple enough process tbh.

http://www.maximumpc.com/2005/01/how_to_slipstre.html