A slightly stupid question

ElGriton · Sep 25, 2007

I putting together a new box with a P5N-E. I'm going to use my WD 10k SATA drive to install Vista. When I installed XP-64 many moons ago I needed a floppy with special drivers for the drive. My question is, will Vista pick up the drive or will I need drivers for it? If I do, will they be included in the box or do I need to d/l them?

torin3 · Sep 25, 2007

ElGriton said:
I putting together a new box with a P5N-E. I'm going to use my WD 10k SATA drive to install Vista. When I installed XP-64 many moons ago I needed a floppy with special drivers for the drive. My question is, will Vista pick up the drive or will I need drivers for it? If I do, will they be included in the box or do I need to d/l them?

I don't believe you will need special drivers. I recently installed 64bit Vista on a WD 10K SATA drive and had no problems and no request for special drivers.

jason4207 · Sep 25, 2007

AHCI mode requires special drivers.

aja · Sep 25, 2007

jason4207 said:
AHCI mode requires special drivers.

What is that about? If it requires a lengthy explanation, just say so and dont worry about it!

rainless · Sep 25, 2007

aja said:
What is that about? If it requires a lengthy explanation, just say so and dont worry about it!

Forget ACHI mode. Not worth the explanation. Vista will install fine.

jason4207 · Sep 25, 2007

AHCI-Advanced Host Controller Interface

If you set your sata mode to AHCI in BIOS then you need the F6 drivers just like you do w/ RAID. Setting your sata to IDE mode avoids this. I'm using AHCI, and have read that it is better, but I haven't done any kind of testing to say one way or the other.

BytesBack · Sep 25, 2007

I have installed Vista 64 on three 2 intel 965 chipsets and a p5 chipset, all three time I did not need Ahci drivers. Vista just installed.

aja · Sep 25, 2007

jason4207 said:
AHCI-Advanced Host Controller Interface

If you set your sata mode to AHCI in BIOS then you need the F6 drivers just like you do w/ RAID. Setting your sata to IDE mode avoids this. I'm using AHCI, and have read that it is better, but I haven't done any kind of testing to say one way or the other.

Cool, Thank you very much! :soda:

ElGriton · Sep 25, 2007

thank you all for the help

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