GA-K8NS Ultra 939 NVidia SATA Drivers Needed...

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I need to make an 'F6' XP setup floppy with the NVidia SATA mass storage
controller driver, but I bought this mobo as a refurb and have no driver
CD. Can someone email the files to me?

-Rick

 

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On Sat, 07 May 2005 06:07:41 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939.htm

Udo Kammer

 

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Udo Kammer wrote:
> On Sat, 07 May 2005 06:07:41 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:
>
> http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939.htm
>
> Udo Kammer


Thanks, but that page has only a link for the Silicon Image SATA driver.
What I need (or think I need) is a driver for *NVidia* mass storage
controller that I can use on a *floppy* during an XP setup/install. I
don't have a driver CD, and hence no 'bootdrv' folder or menu.exe
utility to create an 'F6' driver floppy disk.

-Rick

 

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You extract the file then create the floppy, leastways thats what I did last
time I downloaded a SIL driver

"Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote in message
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> Udo Kammer wrote:
> > On Sat, 07 May 2005 06:07:41 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:
> >
> >
http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939.htm
> >
> > Udo Kammer
>
>
> Thanks, but that page has only a link for the Silicon Image SATA driver.
> What I need (or think I need) is a driver for *NVidia* mass storage
> controller that I can use on a *floppy* during an XP setup/install. I
> don't have a driver CD, and hence no 'bootdrv' folder or menu.exe
> utility to create an 'F6' driver floppy disk.
>
> -Rick

 

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MrGrumpy wrote:
> You extract the file then create the floppy, leastways thats what I did last
> time I downloaded a SIL driver
>

Aaaargh!

What do you mean by "extract the file"??? Extract *what* file?!?! Can
you be *more* vague?

Again, I need the *NVIDIA* SATA controller driver, *not* the Silicon
Image driver. Remember, I have no driver CD. I have the driver files I
downloaded from Gigabyte, but unlike a driver CD, the downloaded files
contain no standalone driver file, or a 'bootdrv' folder containing the
menu.exe utility that creates a driver floppy to be used via (F6) during
an XP install, like a driver CD does. I can't just simply 'extract the
file' when I'm still trying to install XP on a SATA drive, comprende?


-Rick

 

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"Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote in message
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> Udo Kammer wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 May 2005 06:07:41 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:
>>
>> http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939.htm
>>
>> Udo Kammer
>
>
> Thanks, but that page has only a link for the Silicon Image SATA driver.
> What I need (or think I need) is a driver for *NVidia* mass storage
> controller that I can use on a *floppy* during an XP setup/install. I
> don't have a driver CD, and hence no 'bootdrv' folder or menu.exe
> utility to create an 'F6' driver floppy disk.
>
> -Rick

U sure there is a need for it? - I read elsewhere that A64/939 mobos no
longer need that driver floppy...




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SteveK wrote:
> "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote in message
> news:ufqcna9GicJ6oeDfUSdV9g@ptd.net
>
>>Udo Kammer wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 07 May 2005 06:07:41 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939.htm
>>>
>>>Udo Kammer
>>
>>
>>Thanks, but that page has only a link for the Silicon Image SATA driver.
>> What I need (or think I need) is a driver for *NVidia* mass storage
>>controller that I can use on a *floppy* during an XP setup/install. I
>>don't have a driver CD, and hence no 'bootdrv' folder or menu.exe
>>utility to create an 'F6' driver floppy disk.
>>
>>-Rick
>
>
> U sure there is a need for it? - I read elsewhere that A64/939 mobos no
> longer need that driver floppy...


You don't need it if you've got XP already installed on say a PATA HD,
but you do need it if you're doing a fresh XP install onto an
unpartitioned SATA drive greater than 130GB in capacity. Otherwise, the
XP setup doesn't see more than 130GB of the drive's capacity at the
point where the XP setup process lets you partition the drive.

During the setup process, I like to create a few special partitions
physically located at that physical location on the drive (a "VM" or
virtual memory partition, a "TempJunk" partition, and a secondary XP
'recovery' environment), and I can't do so if the XP install process
doesn't see all of the drive's capacity during the setup process.

I have found a simple workaround however. I simply grabbed the NForce3
SATA storage controller driver and the NVidia RAID Class controller
driver for XP from MSI's site instead, as they have it available as a
standalone download which fits onto a floppy, and simply made an F6
driver disk off of that instead.

http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/download/dld/spt_dld_detail.php?UID=622&kind=1

The filename is NVSA020.zip

It's an older driver version (2.5), but it worked to get the XP setup to
see the Gigabyte SATA controller and attached drive. Then after XP was
installed, I simply ran the NVidia NForce3 Unified driver install which
then upgrades the 2.5 version of the SATA driver to the current 2.6 version.


-Rick

 

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Rick M. wrote:
> SteveK wrote:

>> U sure there is a need for it? - I read elsewhere that A64/939 mobos
>> no longer need that driver floppy...
>
>
>
> You don't need it if you've got XP already installed on say a PATA HD,
> but you do need it if you're doing a fresh XP install onto an
> unpartitioned SATA drive greater than 130GB in capacity. Otherwise, the
> XP setup doesn't see more than 130GB of the drive's capacity at the
> point where the XP setup process lets you partition the drive.

I should also point out however, that I was installing XP Pro from of a
pre-SP1 CD as well. I don't know if an XP CD with SP2 addresses this or
not.


-Rick

 

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On Sat, 07 May 2005 18:10:50 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:

> What I need (or think I need) is a driver for *NVidia* mass storage
>controller that I can use on a *floppy* during an XP setup/install. I
>don't have a driver CD, and hence no 'bootdrv' folder or menu.exe
>utility to create an 'F6' driver floppy disk.

Unfortunately I have only experience with intel-based motherboards,
where this problem does not exist.

You may have a look at the FAQ and ask Gigabyte for the necessary
drivers.

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/FAQ/FAQ_464.htm

Udo Kammer

 

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On Sat, 07 May 2005 18:10:50 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:

>Udo Kammer wrote:
>> On Sat, 07 May 2005 06:07:41 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:
>>
>> http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8NS%20Ultra-939.htm
>>
>> Udo Kammer
>
>
>Thanks, but that page has only a link for the Silicon Image SATA driver.
> What I need (or think I need) is a driver for *NVidia* mass storage
>controller that I can use on a *floppy* during an XP setup/install. I
>don't have a driver CD, and hence no 'bootdrv' folder or menu.exe
>utility to create an 'F6' driver floppy disk.
>

The silicon controller should be preferred, since it is locked to pci
when overclocking. I am not so sure that the nvidia sata ports are so.

Another trick is (besides Ctrl F1 in bios setup) to set agp to 67 MHz.

Then check with clockgen for NF3 that sata and agp are both locked.

Just a comment !

best regards

John

P.S. If you don't want to boot on the sil controller. Then install XP
with the sil drivers on floppy, and the harddisk on the sil
controller. I believe that XP sees the nvidia sata and installs the
drivers. You should afterwards be able to move your harddisk to nvidia
sata and boot on it.

 

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"Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote in message
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> Rick M. wrote:
>> SteveK wrote:
>
>>> U sure there is a need for it? - I read elsewhere that A64/939 mobos no
>>> longer need that driver floppy...
>>
>>
>>
>> You don't need it if you've got XP already installed on say a PATA HD,
>> but you do need it if you're doing a fresh XP install onto an
>> unpartitioned SATA drive greater than 130GB in capacity. Otherwise, the
>> XP setup doesn't see more than 130GB of the drive's capacity at the point
>> where the XP setup process lets you partition the drive.
>
> I should also point out however, that I was installing XP Pro from of a
> pre-SP1 CD as well. I don't know if an XP CD with SP2 addresses this or
> not.
>

should work with a SP2 CD at least a few people posted it




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On Sat, 07 May 2005 19:34:18 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:

I just got one of these boards this weekend and installed Windows 2000
with no drivers applied with the F6 routine at install with the floppy
- worked like a champ for the Nvidia SATA - I am hanging on WD 36GB
raptor off SATA0 of the Nvidia ports. If Win2k needed no Nvidia SATA
driver, then chances are XP doesn't need one either.

Give it a try without.

>MrGrumpy wrote:
>> You extract the file then create the floppy, leastways thats what I did last
>> time I downloaded a SIL driver
>>
>
>Aaaargh!
>
>What do you mean by "extract the file"??? Extract *what* file?!?! Can
>you be *more* vague?
>
>Again, I need the *NVIDIA* SATA controller driver, *not* the Silicon
>Image driver. Remember, I have no driver CD. I have the driver files I
>downloaded from Gigabyte, but unlike a driver CD, the downloaded files
>contain no standalone driver file, or a 'bootdrv' folder containing the
>menu.exe utility that creates a driver floppy to be used via (F6) during
>an XP install, like a driver CD does. I can't just simply 'extract the
>file' when I'm still trying to install XP on a SATA drive, comprende?
>
>
>-Rick
>
>
>
>

 

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Ken Peterson wrote:
> On Sat, 07 May 2005 19:34:18 -0400, "Rick M." <dishtv@ptd.net> wrote:
>
> I just got one of these boards this weekend and installed Windows 2000
> with no drivers applied with the F6 routine at install with the floppy
> - worked like a champ for the Nvidia SATA - I am hanging on WD 36GB
> raptor off SATA0 of the Nvidia ports. If Win2k needed no Nvidia SATA
> driver, then chances are XP doesn't need one either.


Again, the point is being missed. *My* problem was related to using a
drive *larger* than 130GB. You, using a 36GB Raptor drive would not
encounter the problem I did. Furthermore, the next time you boot up.
check the POST screen carefully, or better yet go into BIOS and see how
your system looks at the SATA ports -- it lists them as IDE ports, not
SATA ports. Now while that is no big deal if using an HD smaller than
130GB, using a drive larger than that (like the 160GB drive I just
bought), the driver *is* needed if you are setting up Windows from
scratch off of a pre-SP1 XP CD, *if* you want to use the full capacity
of a drive larger than 130GB.

-Rick