Adding SATA SiI 3114 controller

I have a Tiger K8W S2875- Dual Opteron S2875ANRF mobo. I have installed
Win XP Pro. However I cannot get it to recognize the SATA SiI 3114
controller. I couldn't read the directions for installing the driver while
adding the OS included on the CD until after the OS was installed. There is
no card to add so I can't power it down and have the OS see something new as
described in your notes and add new hardware does not recognize anything
new. I use Maxblast and Seagate utilities and they tell me that yeah I have
a controller and a 300 Gb Maxtor hard drive and that everything is healthy.
Also the BIOS sees it. Now how do I make Windows add it?

On Fri, 19 May 2006 18:17:58 -0400, The Leon <TheLeon.RemoveThis@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> I have a Tiger K8W S2875- Dual Opteron S2875ANRF mobo. I have installed
> Win XP Pro. However I cannot get it to recognize the SATA SiI 3114
> controller.

I believe you have to insert the driver into the floppy when booting from
the XP CD. As soon as the computer boots from the CD and the screen turns
blue, quickly press F6 (to specify that you have an additional driver) and
XP will tell you when to insert the floppy.

If you already installed XP, boot the computer as if new install press F6
to add the driver, and when you get to the Install or Reapair option in
the installation process, press REPAIR and I believe that should take care
of it.

If you install Raid 0 (I wouldn't) you need the RAID driver which you
install the same way as the other drivers when booting from the XP CD.


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