I am putting together my first machine: Asus P5B, 2 500 GB HD(both are SATA II), sapphire x1950xt, GSkill 800 (2GB), Corsair 520 PS
It booted!!
I now have to set up the bios and have some questions:
I am going to install XP SP2, I have to set up the SATA drives do I enable ACHI or leave it as IDE (I don't want to do RAID). If I do enable ACHIwhy am I doing it? If I enable it and want to disable it later am I in trouble??
In the old IDE world, the boot drive was identified and setup with the format command - with two SATA drives how do I identify which one is the boot drive and the how do I partition and format each drive?
Any and all help appreciated
Steve
It booted!!
I now have to set up the bios and have some questions:
I am going to install XP SP2, I have to set up the SATA drives do I enable ACHI or leave it as IDE (I don't want to do RAID). If I do enable ACHIwhy am I doing it? If I enable it and want to disable it later am I in trouble??
In the old IDE world, the boot drive was identified and setup with the format command - with two SATA drives how do I identify which one is the boot drive and the how do I partition and format each drive?
Any and all help appreciated
Steve