Abit NF7-S2 Question

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I have an NF7-S2 wiyh a single SATA harddrive. The Bios lists it as an IDE
drive and when I try to load the SATA driver, Windows XP replies that it
cannot find the device. The drive works fine, but the system is unstable,
shuts down sporadically, and I think it may be related to the driver not
being loaded. Thanks for any help.

 

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Whether the driver is loaded correctly, should be available in hardware
devices.
The bios does indeed identify it as an ide device.
I've just used this board on a new sys, with win2k. With this o/s it is
neccessary to install raid/sata drivers with the install of the o/s, using
the F6 option to install third party drivers, as part of the o/s install. My
understanding is that winxp has inbuilt drivers for certain sata devices.


"Hop-Singh" <Hop-Singh@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I have an NF7-S2 wiyh a single SATA harddrive. The Bios lists it as an IDE
> drive and when I try to load the SATA driver, Windows XP replies that it
> cannot find the device. The drive works fine, but the system is unstable,
> shuts down sporadically, and I think it may be related to the driver not
> being loaded. Thanks for any help.

 

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My NF7 board ids SATA drives as SCSI. Thought they all did that in
Device Manager.


MrGrumpy wrote:
> Whether the driver is loaded correctly, should be available in hardware
> devices.
> The bios does indeed identify it as an ide device.
> I've just used this board on a new sys, with win2k. With this o/s it is
> neccessary to install raid/sata drivers with the install of the o/s, using
> the F6 option to install third party drivers, as part of the o/s install. My
> understanding is that winxp has inbuilt drivers for certain sata devices.
>
>
> "Hop-Singh" <Hop-Singh@Hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns969F7112C64DDHopSinghHotmailcom@65.32.5.121...
>
>>I have an NF7-S2 wiyh a single SATA harddrive. The Bios lists it as an IDE
>>drive and when I try to load the SATA driver, Windows XP replies that it
>>cannot find the device. The drive works fine, but the system is unstable,
>>shuts down sporadically, and I think it may be related to the driver not
>>being loaded. Thanks for any help.
>
>
>