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Setting up a P5B-D based system this weekend, and I have a few detail questions concerning setting up this board.
First, I don't remember seeing in the manual anything special for installing off an IDE optical drive. The IDE ports are hung off the JMicron controller right? So do I have to do anything special to set an IDE optical drive on the JMicron controller as my boot drive for a WinXP install?
The onboard audio issues I've just recently read about - are these fixed at all? I was going to use the onboard for a few weeks or a month while I decide on a soundcard, I know it's not as good quality but it would just be temporary. I do have an ancient SB Live! if there's no way to make the onboard work reasonably, but I'd rather not install it and Creative's drivers if the onboard can be made workable.
This is more software about software, but still mostly related to this motherboard: I'm going to use my old comp to slipstream a new WinXP disk with SP2 and drivers. I'll look at the 'how to slipstream WinXP' stickie in the software forum again, but I just wanted to know if there's anything special to putting the latest drivers on the disk? Or is it just convenience, and you still just install the chipset etc drivers off the disk once windows is mostly installed? And is there a way to slipstream SP2 without installing WGA?
First, I don't remember seeing in the manual anything special for installing off an IDE optical drive. The IDE ports are hung off the JMicron controller right? So do I have to do anything special to set an IDE optical drive on the JMicron controller as my boot drive for a WinXP install?
The onboard audio issues I've just recently read about - are these fixed at all? I was going to use the onboard for a few weeks or a month while I decide on a soundcard, I know it's not as good quality but it would just be temporary. I do have an ancient SB Live! if there's no way to make the onboard work reasonably, but I'd rather not install it and Creative's drivers if the onboard can be made workable.
This is more software about software, but still mostly related to this motherboard: I'm going to use my old comp to slipstream a new WinXP disk with SP2 and drivers. I'll look at the 'how to slipstream WinXP' stickie in the software forum again, but I just wanted to know if there's anything special to putting the latest drivers on the disk? Or is it just convenience, and you still just install the chipset etc drivers off the disk once windows is mostly installed? And is there a way to slipstream SP2 without installing WGA?