Onboard SATA

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:02 pm

Ok Guys.. Quick question that some of you SATA guru's might answer. I'm looking at upgrading to A64, I am wanting to go SATA as well. The NF3 board I'm looking at has the NF-250Gb chipset. Which is onboard SATA. Does this mean it is "native" so I won't have to goof with installing the drivers when doing an install of XP? TIA

eGo

nexus_7 · Post by **nexus_7** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:11 pm

nope. I think you always do. I might be wrong though.

If I get off my ass and finish my Case migration I would know. lol

Greg

DoPeY5007 · Post by **DoPeY5007** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:56 pm

I didnt need to mess with drivers on the install of XP on my P4 box with onboard SATA ( on a SATA drive )

smb · Post by **smb** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 4:40 pm

What you can do is set the SATA to native in the bios, install winxp, install the SATA drivers, go back to the bios and set SATA to primary, etc.. and it should work.

Key Keeper · Post by **Key Keeper** » Mon Nov 08, 2004 10:03 pm

You should be able to install windows on a sata drive without any problems. One thing to be sure of is your boot configuration...floppy/cd-rom/sata. As long as you dont have any ata hard drives installed during you install, windows should see that only sata drives are present and install on them. The only time you would need drivers is if you were using a sata card or raid/scsi card/onboard riad controller. That has been my expierence anyways. I did it the hard way and ran two sata in raid 0. Nothing like installing xp pro in 10-12 minutes.