SATA quick help

foreverdaedforeverdaed
edited April 2005 in Hardware
Don't know which chipset driver to use on a
k8 Triton
GA-K8VM800M
VIA K8m800 chipset -not an avaliable choice(from what i have seen)

Maxtor diamondmax plus 9 sata 150mb/s 120 gb


tried everything at http://www.gigabyte.com.tw
Need a floppy for xp installation
all on a fresh xp installation
i have looked all through my mobo cd and found nothing that works, dled loads of different drivers, made about 50 floppies
NEED- I need help on what files i need on my floppy
I am a super n00b with sata so please don't get too technical :D

thanks Beau/foreverdaed

Comments

  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/Support/Driver/Driver_GA-K8VM800M.htm
  • foreverdaedforeverdaed
    edited April 2005
    tried there...tried the silicone image....nothing.....need help with what to do and which one of those files to run
    and how to install them onto the floppy (zip?paste?unzip?run in cmd?)
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    are u trying to install the drivers prior to you install windows xp?? if you are, download this file
    http://europe.giga-byte.com/MotherBoard/FileList/Driver/driver_raid_via_8237_win2003.exe

    then extract files from the exe into a folder, and then follow the following instructions.

    * Copy all files and directories of DriverDisk\SATA folder to a floppy disk. Make sure
    following directories and files are copied into floppy disk.

    A:\
    \2003IA32
    VIAsraid.inf
    VIAsraid.sys
    VIAsraid.cat
    \Win2000
    VIAsraid.inf
    VIAsraid.sys
    VIAsraid.cat
    \Winnt40
    VIAsraid.inf
    VIAsraid.sys
    \WinXP
    VIAsraid.inf
    VIAsraid.sys
    VIAsraid.cat
    Txtsetup.oem
    VT8237


    * Boot system from OS installing CD-ROM.

    * Make sure VT6420 BIOS is executed by the system BIOS when POST.

    * Press "F6" when OS installer starts running.

    * Insert floppy disk.

    * Choose the OS device driver wanted for loading.

    * Install OS.

    * Run setup.exe after OS is installed.
  • foreverdaedforeverdaed
    edited April 2005
    leishi85 wrote:
    then extract files from the exe into a folder,
    how can i do that?
  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    do you have winrar or (i'm not so sure if winzip does it) u can just right click on the file and doo extract to
  • foreverdaedforeverdaed
    edited April 2005
    hmmm...not working, anything i could have done wrong, i have all the files on there(in their folders)
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