SDREnate Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 I installed a new motherboard today, and when I try to install Windows, setup doesn't detect any of my SATA hard drives. I looked in the manual that came with the motherboard (Foxconn 925XE7AA-8EKRS2) and couldn't find anything. Is there some setting in BIOS or CMOS that would help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chmsant Posted January 26, 2006 Share Posted January 26, 2006 You must manually load the SATA drivers (from a floppy i might add) during the inital xp setup loading process. Either that, or you can slipstream the drivers in. XP does not support most SATA controllers natively Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDREnate Posted January 27, 2006 Author Share Posted January 27, 2006 It came with some SATA RAID Driver floppies. Is that what I need? I'll go check. Sorry. I'm kind of a newb when it comes to building computers, as this is my first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acoustikrage Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 ooh, i remember the first (and only, so far) time i installed an sata drive. man, that was a pain in the butt. it took me a while to figure out i needed drivers on a floppy, but i hadn't bought a floppy drive since i never thought i'd need it, so i had to pull one out of another machine and put that in. :hmmm: so yup, those sata raid driver floppies should be exactly what you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G4M3R Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 You must manually load the SATA drivers (from a floppy i might add) during the inital xp setup loading process. Either that, or you can slipstream the drivers in. XP does not support most SATA controllers natively Press the F6 key during the first part of the install Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDREnate Posted January 27, 2006 Author Share Posted January 27, 2006 Now I've run into another problem. I'm using my floppy drive from my Dell Dimension 4700. When I press F6 during setup, it doesn't detect any floppy drive, soI haven't been able to install the drivers. Now, I looked at my drive, the ribbon, and the connection for it on my old motherboard, and I noticed some differences. The floppy motherboard connection on the Dell mobo has 2 pins taken out, while the Foxconn mobo connection has only 1 pin taken out. Also, the original ribbon has 1 hole blocked, while the Foxconn floppy cable has none blocked. This leads me to think the floppy drive isn't compatible with the new motherboard. It is hooked up correctly, and I tried both the original ribbon and the new cable. When using the original ribbon, the light on the drive would never turn on. Additionally, when the new cable is used, the light on the drive never turns off. I'm at a loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeremy1 Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 XP does not support most SATA controllers natively I've installed XP on many computers with SATA, and I've never had to give it any drivers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNay Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I've installed XP on many computers with SATA, and I've never had to give it any drivers. Same here. In the bios there should be a option for Sata. There is for me, and I didn't need any drivers (my motherboard is almost 2 1/2 yrs old) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amrinders87 Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 I've installed XP on many computers with SATA, and I've never had to give it any drivers. I beleive it was added with SP 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arckon Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Can anyone confirm that you no longer need SATA drivers w/ an SP2 slipstreamed disc on either a 865PE or NForce4 chipset? When I initiall installed XP, it was an SP1 slipstreamed disc on a regular IDE drive and not SATA. So I would like to know if I would need a floppy to get it installed again if I need to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A10 Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Microsoft didn't add any kind of support for Serial ATA as you technically don't need to. Older SATA controllers where raid only and the drivers where seen as SCSI just like IDE raid controllers. Newer native controllers that allow single and raid configs do not sit on the pci bus and are seen by XP as regular ide drives so thats the reason why no drivers are needed on AMD boards using the Nforce 4 family and on Intel boards with the ICH6 or 7 for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxster17 Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 But when I installed Windows XP on my computer which has an ICH7R controller, it didn't recognize my SATA HDD. I don't know if having it SATAII matters, but I had to use a floppy for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amERICa Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Set the SATA operational mode to normal ATA in the BIOS, disable any RAID basically, and you shouldn't have any problems installing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A10 Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 But when I installed Windows XP on my computer which has an ICH7R controller, it didn't recognize my SATA HDD. I don't know if having it SATAII matters, but I had to use a floppy for it. The R designates you have a raid capable SB. You need to go into the bios and search for the AHCI option(could be called SATA if unsure just set it to anything but raid). If you find it don't change it as your drive will fizzle(no it won't fry but your file system will go bang). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boxster17 Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Oh yeah, I know what you're talking about now then. It has an option 'Configure SATA As' and it's normally on 'Standard IDE' (in which I need to insert a disk when installing), but if I set it to AHCI (the only other option is RAID), then do I not need to have that driver disk? And this is something I'd need to switch when doing a fresh install, I can't just switch it to AHCI right now, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A10 Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 Yes to everything if you change the option in the bios you'll do some major damage to NTDLR and probably the rest of your drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golazo Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 i never needed sata drivers :s maybe because i use pata as a master and my 2 satas as slaves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam1V Posted January 27, 2006 Share Posted January 27, 2006 you dont need to load the SATA drivers. I came accross this problem myself. Go into the system bios, and disable the raid function. Simple as that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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