Serial-ATA drivers

[SEAN-NZ]

hi i just bought a new 320gb SATA hard drive along with a few other items, and i was wandering if someone new were i can download the SATA drivers (if they can be downloaded).

[illegal]

Either they're already installed (your signature mentions a SATA drive), or you could find them on the cd that came with your motherboard.

Found this link, but I'm not sure if that includes SATA drivers:
http://dlsvr05.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/u ... in2003.zip

[Orsenfelt]

You shouldn't need S-ATA drivers..

[SEAN-NZ]

i just got the parts, like 2 days ago, but i cant install windows or anything, coz i didnt get the cpu fan, il see wat i can do

[JasonJ]

I just bought a SATA drive. Plugged it into mother board and the BIOS (press delete on PC start screen) detected it. I then used Windows install disk and installed Windows to the SATA drive. Works like any IDE drive if your motherboard has SATA plugs in it. I disconnected the other IDE drives so there wasnt a conflict.

If you bought all that stuff in your signature then your SATA drive will work without 'drivers' You just need a Windows disk and make sure you have properly set your PICKS on the SATA drive to MASTER (Master PICK should be already set on the SATA drive out of the box) and you're good to start up.

[Orsenfelt]

If you are using 1 S-ATA drive and the rest IDE the motherboard selects S-ATA as main drive by default, Industry standard.

[SEAN-NZ]

i did get all that stuff in my sig, i dont understand the picks stuff, i only have the one S-ATA hard drive and no other ide hard drives, as there is only one IDE plug on the motherboard

[Orsenfelt]

i did get all that stuff in my sig, i dont understand the picks stuff, i only have the one S-ATA hard drive and no other ide hard drives, as there is only one IDE plug on the motherboard

BIOS' (The basic program on the motherboard that starts and controls your system) has a 'boot sequence'. It decides what the BIOS checks first for the operating system.

It used to be, In the days of IDE, When you got 2 Hard-Drives to a ribbon, Both going into 1 point, That it was decided by the physical jumper on the back of the hard-drive. Now, With S-ATA the computer auto detects the order they are in (Since you only get 1 hard-drive per port and they are ordered.)

If you mix IDE and S-ATA type drives, The S-ATA will be chosen as primary boot location by default. However that's not the case, So it doesn't matter.

Just plug it in and it will work since it's the only drive

[SEAN-NZ]

oh ok, i cant use it at the mo anyway as i dont have the CPU fan

[brataccas3]

I have never need sata drivers when I had one of those hdds

[SEAN-NZ]

cool, when i finally get the CPU fan i will try

[SEAN-NZ]

i got the fan , but i cant install windows , it comes up with a darkish blue screen and says something, but i dont know wat it is now

before i start setup it has a message at the bottem of the screen saying:
No Ide Master H.D.D Detected
Press F1 To Resume

so i press F1, and then start the setup
then it has the setup screen with Windows Setup at the top, and eventually it says Setup is Starting Windows

and after about 10 seconds, it says
Stop:c000021 Unknown Hard Erro
\SystemRoot\System32\ntdll.dll

does anyone know wat is wrong?

[shaken_bacon]

I just googled the problem first paged turned up this.

http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/wi ... 1007400173

3rd last solution/ post looked best to me and also was what I was thinking to try.

"The problem is the ntdll.dll file in your installation source location. copy your whole cd to your hard drive. and put in a folder called winxp. download the ntdll.dll from the web. the file has to be 658kb. put it in c:\winxp\I386 and c:\winxp\I386\system32 and try again. Good Luck "

was his answer and I am guess that would be your best bet to try, although the page had several responses you can try.

[SEAN-NZ]

i cant even install windows , and i only have 1 IDE plug, so i can only use my DVD drive

[SEAN-NZ]

a couple of pics, i had to use photo shop to do them, so they arent that accurate to wat the screen actually says, but should be recognisable

Setup Screen

This screen comes on about 10-15 seconds after the setup screen above shows up