AHCI drivers on CD

[tnw]

Hey, I just bought the GA-M720-US3 motherboard and I want to install XP on a SATA II hard drive using the AHCI drivers. I've loaded the CD onto my old machine and I'm not sure which files I need to copy onto the floppy disk, anyone got an idea? Cheers 

[oggmonster]

On the driver CD itself is there anywhere where you can run an .exe and create the floppy from that?

[tnw]

Possibly. I've gone into \Other\GSATA and there are four folders, APPLICATION, DRIVER, FLOPPY32 and FLOPPY64, could any of those be what I'm after?

[oggmonster]

If its 32bit XP then i'm guessing you will need to copy the files from the FLOPPY32 folder onto the floppy

[tnw]

Yeah just regular XP home. Just putting the beast together at the moment, but will try those drivers. I'll let you know how it goes! 

[oggmonster]

Yeah logic dictates it will be under the floppy32 folder. Should be 3 or so files. One should be TXTSETUP.OEM

[tnw]

txtsetup is there, think we cracked it! Thanks a lot mate 

[oggmonster]

No worries, let us know how you get on 

[tnw]

Well for some reason pressing F6 didn't bring up the option to use the floppy. Tried it a few times and nothing so I just went ahead and installed it as if it were an IDE device.  It found the full 1TB so can't complain!

The only issue I've had so far was installing one particular driver, the High Definition Audio Bus. After trying to install it came up with that annoying "search the web for the driver" pop-up which usually (and did this time) comes up with a "problem installing hardware" error and ? in the device manager. I installed the RealTek driver afterwards and that seems fine and my headphones work so I've no idea.