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vireo · 01-04-2006, 07:21 PM

sl-k8tpro-939 is my mobo and I'm pretty clueless about how to get my new sata150 WD Caviar installed as a primary drive. I have the drive plugged into the onboard promise controller and its recognized by it and it shows up in the boot menu. But when i boot from the windows install cd, its not even found. I even tried pressing F6 to install third party drivers and used my sata floppy, but to no prevail.

I have the latest bios installed because i remember updating for the cool n quiet inclusion in the bios. There are two sata controllers i think, via and promise. Not sure how to install drivers for each, since the readme's in the driver zips are written in techy, and I never learned techy.

Any help would be much appreciated.

01-04-2006, 07:21 PM	#1
vireo Member (4 bit) Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 8	SATA troubles in hell sl-k8tpro-939 is my mobo and I'm pretty clueless about how to get my new sata150 WD Caviar installed as a primary drive. I have the drive plugged into the onboard promise controller and its recognized by it and it shows up in the boot menu. But when i boot from the windows install cd, its not even found. I even tried pressing F6 to install third party drivers and used my sata floppy, but to no prevail. I have the latest bios installed because i remember updating for the cool n quiet inclusion in the bios. There are two sata controllers i think, via and promise. Not sure how to install drivers for each, since the readme's in the driver zips are written in techy, and I never learned techy. Any help would be much appreciated.