Problem installing IDE driver

[lucasc83]

I've just completed a new build a couple weeks ago and ran into this problem while trying to install the chipset drivers.

I have an Asus K8N-E Deluxe motherboard and a Hitachi 250Ggb SATA hard drive. I installed the NForce chipset drivers from the Asus CD and when I restarted my computer, Windows gave me a message saying that my HD was ready to be removed. The system seemed to treat my single HD like a removable HD. I did a system restore and reinstalled the Nforce drivers, simply leaving out the IDE driver.

I downloaded the latest drivers from Nvidia's website after updating my bios, yet I the same problem still occurs after installing the IDE driver.

To be honest, I'm not a tech wiz, and I don't know if this driver is even necessary. I just feel like I'm not getting total performance out of my hard drive (it takes about 23 seconds for a directory of 65 single thumbnailed folders to load).

After doing some searching, I've seen other posts on a couple boards describing this same problem with different hard drives, so the problem's source is probably the motherboard. I've never seen a solution to it yet, though. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.

Asus K8NE-Deluxe mobo
AMD Athlon 3200+ CPU
Hitachi 250GB SATA HDS722525VLSA80
running Windows XP w/SP2

[spyder003]

You're using a SATA HDD right? IDE drivers won't have any effect on your SATA HDD. You don't have to use the nVidia IDE drivers, XP has drivers that it will use.