Re: Installing SATA Drivers - Driving Me Nuts

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The board should recognise SATA drives out of the box or with a BIOS update.
You should only need F6 for RAID drivers. Have a look on the board and make
sure you have the SATA drive plugged into the right connector and not a RAID
connector. Have a look in the BIOS to make sure the right controllers are
enabled. I've seen problems like you describe when the drive is plugged into
a RAID controller and the controller is turned off in the BIOS. Double check
the manual and make sure you have it set up right, also try putting the
drive into one of the other SATA controllers. I have seen a Asus manual
which has the wrong information printed about the controllers which meant
the SATA drives were installed to the wrong controller.
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bios upgrade done. still does not detect sata drive.


"Rat_uk" <bumboy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i am trying to install winxp home edition OEM onto an asus p2-ae2 pundit
machine sing a maxtor diamondmax 10 sata drive.

the cd is a sp2 slipstream from my original home edition cd. windows (and
the bios) do not recognise the sata drive at start up and so i press f6
to install sata driver.

asus do not supply a driver on their installation disk and the maxtor
sata drivers don't work. i get a number of errors but basically the
maxtor sata drivers will not load and therefore i am stuck trying to get
xp onto my machine with no help from asus website at all.

there are many forums filled with people who are having the same problem
but no-one seems to have an answer. does anyone know how to get the
motherboard and/or windows to recognise the sata drive.

i have read somewhere that it is because i am using OEm disk but i have
used this to install 3rd party drivers on other machines.





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