Sata Off / Sata On = No

Tried to install a fresh copy xp. Could not find the sata drivers for f6 so I disabled Native Sata in the bios. Installed XP and main board drivers.

HP told me where to get the sata drivers and I downloaded them, ran the .exe and it says" Minimal Requirement's not met."

Any ideas?

 

Why would you want to install SATA drivers now? You wont see any difference performance wise.

 

I assumed Sata would be faster.

 

XP has the drivers included so no need to install separate drivers when asked before the install.

 

um no kanehl xp does not have sata drivers included, the version that does is usually modified by someone like HP. thats why when installing XP from your recovery discs you dont have to install SATA drivers as HP has included them.

you might try making your own XP CD with the drivers and updates included, there are many topics on the forums with links to places that help you make such a CD

 

I did a full install of the Media Center edition without it asking for the SATA driver. So I figured since it installed without problems that it's included with the OS. I also installed other flavors of XP (Home, Pro) and it loaded without difficulty but I preferred Media Center. I also installed Vista Ultimate without any problems but since most of my programs doesn't work with it well I went back to MCE for now.

 

and these versions of XP were untouched? ie originals or copies of originals? most of the ones you download can be patched to include SATA drivers and updates. Vista has the SATA drivers built-in so thats why you don't need it but XP doesn't. not sure about MCE though as I havent tried it on this machine.

 

Is this by chance an AMD unit? XP SP2 does have some native nForce SATA support, but Intel SATA chipsets are not recognized. Never understood why.

 

Yes it's an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-56. HP dv2000z. They were all full install discs, all originals (kinda expensive). I wonder if AMD and MS had an understanding and left out Intel in the process? That would be kind of ironic!

 

nope the CPUs in the systems I had were all AMDs, maybe certain SATA drivers were included but many werent. and maybe they included those updates in newer versions of XP. I know that even after SP2 they still didnt include them so they probably integrated them at some point in the last few months.

 

I was referring to the nForce Go 430 chipset used in the dv2000z/dv9000z/dv6000z, which *should* allow an XP SP2 disc to detect the SATA drive during the install process. At any rate, I'll find out in 2 days when the dv6400 comes (as I'll try to boot an XP SP2 disc).

 

The Sata drives would be found on the AMD site.
Then you'd use nLite to slipstream into a new XP disc that would boot without you having to turn off Sata in the bios. I looked on the AMD site but can't find them. That means you have to figure out what kind of hard drive controller your laptop is using. For example, everyone who has an Intel version of the laptop has an Intel IC7HM, or IC8HM controller in the newer laptops. If you click on control panel, system, hardware, device manger, you probably have a yellow question mark for the hard drive controller. Right click in and look at properties. See if you can figure out what kind of hardware this is. Then go to the company web site and search for the driver. That's what I had to do with my sound controller.

If you want, check out my guide and I have some pictures of slipstreaming drivers. But this is for Intel. You'll have to search the AMD site for Sata drivers for your chipset.

XP on DV6500T

 

Actually, the SATA drivers are bundled into the HP nForce chipset driver (I extracted the .exe with WinRar and nLite picked them up). I'm still hoping that the slipstreamed disc will be unnecessary, but I'll get ready just in case).

 

Try the guide I wrote that updates upon the original one for reinstalling WinXP for these intel chipsets.

 

Hi,
I have a new DV2500T and I can't find the option in the BIOS to disable SATA... if someone could point out where it is I'd appreciate it...
thanks.