vinylkid Posted October 19, 2004 Posted October 19, 2004 I've got a DFI NF3/250GB motherboard, a Athlon64 3200+, and a Thermalright XP-90 heatink in my grimy little hands and will be installing it later tonight into my main box (which is running XP loaded up on a WD Raptor on the SIL3114 SATA interface). I was wondering if anyone knows if I will require a re-install of XP for the SATA support, or if I can just plug the HD in and go. I'm not running the drive RAIDed at all at the moment. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addy Posted October 19, 2004 Posted October 19, 2004 I just installed my nF3 250Gb board yesterday. Upgraded from an nForce2 board with a single SATA drive. Booted right up into windows 1st time, seemed totally functional. Next thing I did was reboot, flash BIOS and re-format the HD though Didn't want to have to worry about legacy stuff hanging around costing me performance. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
red930 Posted October 20, 2004 Posted October 20, 2004 I did the same thing by pre-building XP on my LP Ultra B system. Before I shut down for the last time, I un-installed all of the system specific devices. Once the new system was built, I booted from the drive and XP found all of the new devices without an error. I installed the SATA driver then imaged to my Maxtor SATA. I was done in just about an hour including the drive image. So far, so good. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry_Games Posted October 20, 2004 Posted October 20, 2004 http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?...74&m=1400925745 http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314058 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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