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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition
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PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

by Robert Bruce Thompson, Barbara Fritchman Thompson
July 2003
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
874 pages
38h 13m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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CMOS and OS Setup

After you physically install the SATA hard drive, restart the system and run BIOS Setup. If the SATA drive is not listed, use the BIOS Setup autodetect feature to force detection and restart the system again. Depending on the motherboard, the system may or may not recognize the new drive, as follows:

Motherboard without native SATA chipset support

Motherboards made before spring 2003 lack native (chipset-level) SATA support. Transition motherboards produced in late 2002 through July 2003—e.g., the Intel D845PEBT2 and the ASUS A7N8X Deluxe—use an embedded third-party controller chip such as the Sil 3112A to provide SATA support. Some systems add SATA support with a PCI SATA host adapter. Accessing the SATA drive on most such systems requires a driver.

For a new Windows 2000/XP system that is to boot from the SATA drive, insert the driver diskette when the operating system setup utility prompts you to install third-party storage drivers. For Windows 9X, follow the instructions provided by the motherboard or SATA interface manufacturer. If the SATA drive is a secondary drive on an existing system, use the OS driver update feature to load the SATA driver after the system boots to the original primary hard drive. If the SATA drive and interface don’t appear on the list of IDE/ATA devices, which they probably won’t, examine the list of SCSI devices.

Motherboard with native SATA chipset support

Recent motherboards, such as those that use Intel Springdale-family chipsets, ...

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