Need help with new Intel mobo ASAP

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I am building a 3GHz system with the Intel D865PERL, and this is the first time that I have used SATA drives. Here is how it is setup:

Primary IDE Master: Plextor 8X DVD+/-RW
Secondary IDE Master: Iomega Zip 250
SATA Port 0: Maxtor 7200RPM 8MB SATA Drive
SATA Port 1: Maxtor 7200RPM 8MB SATA Drive

When I was trying to install XP, when I created a partition on the Maxtor on SATA 0, it automatically named it Drive E. It is because of the two drives that I have on the Primary and Secondary IDE channels. So, how do I get it to name the drive C:? I checked the BIOS, but did not see a setting that would fix this issue.

UPDATE:

I just tried to update the BIOS to see if that would help. I used the floppy disk version. When it was in the process of doing it, it said that it was copying a program, sw.exe, from the a: drive to the c: drive, but the c: drive is the DVD burner!

It did its thing, and then asked to have me remove the floppy disk from the drive and hit enter, and said NOT TO DO A THING until it had finished. Well, it has been about 10 minutes, and it is still just displaying a blinking cursor (blinking underscore) on a black screen. I hope this didn't hurt the mobo. I'm guessing that it did not complete the process because there was not a c: drive to write to.

I did look at Intel's site for some answers, and it said by default, booting from SATA drives is disabled in the BIOS. You have to change it. But it didn't tell how! It did say how to enable RAID, but I don't want that feature.

Here is the page I am referring to:

http://support.intel.com/support/mo...b/CS-010691.htm

Anyone have any ideas? Would appreciate any ASAP. Thanks.
 
Yes, you have to go where the boot order is and select the drive you want to use in BIOS. Also I've heard you need to install the SATA driver from floppy by pressing F6 when prompted by Windows Setup.

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Actually, all I had to do was unplug the zip drive while I was installing the OS. I also had to restore the bios, as it was not able to complete the flash process since there was no writable c drive at the time I initiated the flash. And the instructions made no mention of the fact that it would use the c drive during the flash.

All is well now.
 
Wow, let me get this straight, you didn't have to use the F6 command?

OK, I knew the SATA controller of the ICH5 southbridge treats single SATA drives (unraided) as IDE and was actually told by a couple users that no special driver was needed to install windows.

But recently, someone else insisted differently.

I've owned a couple of these boards myself but still don't have any SATA drives, so I would really like to know for future reference, you say you did NOT need to load a special driver at the F6 prompt?

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That's right. I did NOT have to install anything via F6. Just installed it exactly like an IDE drive. The differing opinions that you've gotten may be on account of the motherboard that they used.

When you decide on a motherboard, the best thing to do is go to newegg.com and read the user reviews for that board (if newegg.com carries it). That will pretty much tell you whether or not they had to do anything special. It will also tell you how good of a board it is based on the ratings there. The board that I used had 5 stars. Nothing but the best. 😉
 
Actually, I don't have any choice in motherboards. I'm a review writer. I bought the P4C800-E Deluxe for my Corsair TwinX PC4000 Pro 1024 review after learning that was the board Corsair used to validate the speed. I sold that when I got a free P4I875P Dragon Ultra Version 1.0 Black Label for another review. And I still don't have any SATA drives.

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BTW, if you'd LIKE me to have an SATA drive, submit a suggestion for your favorite drive at Sysopt and my editor will request a review sample from the company.

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Gotta have a SATA drive.

<<BTW, if you'd LIKE me to have an SATA drive, submit a suggestion for your favorite drive at Sysopt and my editor will request a review sample from the company.>>

Give me the direct link, and I'll do that for you.
 
There's a direct link at the bottom of every article as seen <A HREF="http://www.sysopt.com/articles/CaseOptimization/index3.html" target="_new">HERE</A>

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LOL, it's not always THAT easy, some companies never respond!

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