Oh boy woops my asus p6t se mobo has no floppy connector what to do?

ItsGonnaBlow · Aug 5, 2009

Wow things change fast this is my first upgrade in years bought an asus p6t se mobo never thinking to check to see if theres a floppy connector...eek no none.

All I need a floppy for are my 10000 rpm disk drive raid drivers. XP wont install without them crap what can I do? :bang head

Rattle · Aug 5, 2009

v64 or w7

no raid drivers needed

Trap05 · Aug 5, 2009

USB floppy or slipstream the necessary drivers into your installation media

ItsGonnaBlow · Aug 5, 2009

Ah a usb floppy didnt even know there was such a thing. I guess the bios will see it before mobo drivers are installed so it works?
I saw something about vista not needing the raid drivers which makes me wonder...is quad core more suited to vista than xp...is it faster or just disaster? I guess it would be foolish to buy vista with win 7 coming out here at some point or does vista work properly now? Im planning on overclocking and heavy gaming if that makes any difference. Thanks for your help.

Trap05 · Aug 5, 2009

Personally I would just use the Windows 7 RC

ItsGonnaBlow · Aug 5, 2009

Trap05 said:
Personally I would just use the Windows 7 RC

Having good luck with w7? Vista still scares me shouldn't a windows beta terrify me?

Trap05 · Aug 5, 2009

Yes its perfectly stable I haven't really found anything that doesn't work

Mekks · Aug 5, 2009

if you really wana stick with XP, i would just slipstream the drivers in with nlite. not sure the usb floppy will work with win xp installer.

Trap05 · Aug 5, 2009

Most do but slipstreaming would be better since you probably don't have a SP3 disc anyways. Two birds one stone.

ItsGonnaBlow · Aug 6, 2009

Hmm well I think I may try win7 and get a usb floppy too if they are cheap and go back to xp if win7 fails. Sadly I still use a floppy now and then anyways along with my horse-drawn carriage

Thanks again for your help.

Daddyjaxx · Aug 9, 2009

Don't waster your time. XP will not use a USB floppy as a floppy when loading RAID drivers. It has to be IDE. I've been there and done that in the past because I didn't want to open my machine and I would use my laptop's USB floppy.

Trap05 · Aug 9, 2009

Actually it works on some combos and not others

JCLW · Aug 10, 2009

Just slipstream the RAID & AHCI drivers into your XP installation disc.

http://www.nliteos.com/

It takes 15~20mins.

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