This should hopefully help someone avoid the nightmare that I had getting windows onto this motherboard. SATA is ace but getting XP to boot and see the disks is a ball-ache, so here´s how you do it with this motherboard.
- Go into the BIOS and "Load Optimised Defaults"
- Set the First Boot Device as CDROM
- Go into the SATA setup thing
- Choose "Create RAID Set"
- Choose "JBOD (Single)" for one drive or the raid setup you want
- Set the drive size and then exit
- Go to another PC and put in the motherboard driver cd
- Go to the "BootDrv" folder and double click on "MENU"
- Choose option "I"
- Start the new PC with Windows CD in
- Press F6 to load additional drivers when it asks
- When it asks for the additional drivers shove the floppy you just created in and load the XP drivers
- Continue and all should be OK
This worked for me but if it doesn´t for you then email someone else. I´m a web developer, not an IT support technician and this PC I´m doing now isn´t even for me! God, I hate this stuff…
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