OK - I took delivery of the motherboard today, but have been reading its manual over the past few days. Nothing in the manual about the lack of Nvidia drivers small enough to fit on a floppy, and nothing in the manual either about whether or not I can just plug the drive straight into one of the ports served by the nForce4 and not worry about drivers.
So, back to square one there.
Even more confusingly, the manual tells me about a program which can be used in Windows XP *after* installation, which holds the Nvidia and Silicon Image drivers and can install them. But what, I ask myself, is the use of having the Nvidia drivers in an 8MB file?? Obviously it can't be used during XP installation, which is what needs to happen!
So, guys, help me here with all your experience and skillz. I have none so I need yours.
I'm going to just plug the drive into one of the nForce4 ports and NOT press F6 first of all. I'm going to cross my fingers and hope that the nForce4 will save me. What do I need to do in the BIOS?
And if it doesn't work that way, what's my next step?