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theboomboom · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

Slipstreaming seems soooo complicated though...

Anybody hear anything about how vista is going to handle installing on a sata drive?
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Wang Chung · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:27 am Post subject:

Not really, there are like 600007847943799 guides on how to slipstream and programs that even do it for you.
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Drunken Monkey · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 10:23 am Post subject:

i am not sure about any of that.

my last comp i built started off with 3 sata HDDs in it, dint even have a floppy drive. i just turned on the comp, pout in the win xp pro install disk, and was playing doom III within an hour.

the mobo in that comp is an ASUS a8n sli delux

it can handle 8 SATA HDDs with out add on's. Very Happy

it now has almost 1TB of HDD

even 2 really old ata or some crap hard drives from a comp i had back in 97........and it was a hand me down when i got it........only 8GB or so.........maybe 20gb at the most.......cant remember......only use it for the old OS that is on it....
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Wang Chung · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:52 am Post subject:

That's odd, because if I am not mistaken that's an nForce chipset, and I've never had any support for any SLI chipset that wasn't Intel.
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Drunken Monkey · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:58 am Post subject:

Wang Chung wrote:

That's odd, because if I am not mistaken that's an nForce chipset, and I've never had any support for any SLI chipset that wasn't Intel.

aye it is on an nforce4 chipset Very Happy

i think the new mobo i am getting is aswell Smile

hmm is newegg down today?

EDIT: ok got it now

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131517
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theboomboom · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:37 pm Post subject:

Actually, I belive that if your computer has an onboard SATA controller, xp will install fine without a floppy. It is just really hard to tell if the mobo you are planning on buying has a sata controller or not...
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Wang Chung · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject:

If it has SATA ports, it should subsequently have a SATA controller.
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ChrisT · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:56 pm Post subject:

theboomboom wrote:

Actually, I belive that if your computer has an onboard SATA controller, xp will install fine without a floppy. It is just really hard to tell if the mobo you are planning on buying has a sata controller or not...

No mine fucked up and made my 1 harddrive a raid array, so basically I had a 250 gb drive split in half. :/

but I got it working thanks to some l33t retro guy that you might otherwise know as wang chung
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SupaFly · Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2006 10:26 am Post subject:

Slaughter wrote:

theboomboom wrote:

Actually, I belive that if your computer has an onboard SATA controller, xp will install fine without a floppy. It is just really hard to tell if the mobo you are planning on buying has a sata controller or not...

No mine fucked up and made my 1 harddrive a raid array, so basically I had a 250 gb drive split in half. :/

but I got it working thanks to some l33t retro guy that you might otherwise know as wang chung

the deal is that windows (or more accurately the windows installer that runs in the dos type shell on a new install) as absolutely no friggin clue what a sata controller is or how to use it... the floppy gives it the drivers so that it knows

on a normal ide hard drive youd need the drivers too, except that the windows installer has a generic set of those thatll run until you get windows installed & install your chipset drivers
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