ant eater Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 hi, as all we know, if you are using a serial ata drive you have to supply the disk of drivers provided with the controller/motherboard in the windows xp/2000 setup (using f6 in the startup). thats ok, i know that, i did it before, but there is a bit of a problem over here: I HAVE NO F#$&%?NG FLOPPY DRIVE:)) i dont use it so i never thought of buying one as it will look extremely ugly in a clear case. strangely windows 98 setup doesnt need that:pp so i installed windows 98 thinking i may be able to install xp over windows 98. it all went ok until it restarted the machine, after entering the xp setup it gives a win2k style blue screen saying it stopped because there was an error. right now i have a kinda dual boot system (windows 98 and xp setup) and i am definitely stuck! Is there any way to integrate the driver or change the way it searches for the driver? (i selected the "copy all files" option while installing xp over 98) any kind of help is really appreciated:)) thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hypoxiaicon Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 *Interested also As I have No FDD* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 you need to slipstream the driver to the cd, you can find the instruction on the internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roakes Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 No easy task tho, personally im waiting for the nice people who make nlite to add the feature Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 No easy task tho, personally im waiting for the nice people who make nlite to add the feature took me about 10 mins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VG11489 Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 this link will help u link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Floppy drives are like $10-$20 - just go buy one, plug it in and save yourself the stress. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant eater Posted September 16, 2004 Author Share Posted September 16, 2004 (edited) cheers Rudy, can i ask you if you have the link to that article handy? i am on a laptop right now and running out of battery, i have to solve this quick as i forgot to take the charger with me :cry: ? //edit: didnt see the last msg sent. sorry. Edited September 16, 2004 by ant eater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant eater Posted September 16, 2004 Author Share Posted September 16, 2004 this link will help u link :p thanks a million buddy =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudy Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Floppy drives are like $10-$20 - just go buy one, plug it in and save yourself the stress. :) its not about the price, i hate floppies and i never used one for the past 6 yrs and i would never ever put one in my computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearded Kirklander Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 its not about the price, i hate floppies and i never used one for the past 6 yrs and i would never ever put one in my computer Your call, but hey, if I can avoid losing time and getting stressed by spending $15 on a floppy drive, I'm all over it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ant eater Posted September 16, 2004 Author Share Posted September 16, 2004 its not about the price, i hate floppies and i never used one for the past 6 yrs and i would never ever put one in my computer totally agreed. i have a clear case and dont want that ugly thing in there. i also havent used one since 3-4 years maybe.. anyway, thank you all for the quick reply's. cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noyb Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 Am i the only person who did not have to install drivers for his SATA setup. I did when i changed to SATA Raid using the boards built in controller, this is the second time i have heard a thread of this nature and its confusing me. The setup is P4C800-Deluxe with 2x 74Gb Raptors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ascullycom Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 I just got the new MSI Neo 2 motherboard based on the Nforce 3 chipset, I was fully expecting to have to load SATA drivers from floppy when installing XP. Guess what I didnt have to :) Looks like the SP2 Slipstreamed ISO have the Nforce 3 drivers on it everything automatically loaded it was great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kagaku Posted September 16, 2004 Share Posted September 16, 2004 This may be of some assistance: http://www.ms fn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=26161 (remove the space) It's a driver pack containing drivers for some of the more widely used SATA/SCSI/IDE controllers. All instructions are included in the package, and I can confirm that it works great with my Sil3112r and HPT1540 sata controllers. :) He also has LAN driver packs, and sound driver packs as well, you may want to check those out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roakes Posted September 17, 2004 Share Posted September 17, 2004 Thanks, thats exactly what ive been looking for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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