Well, I am now in the process of upgrading to my new system.

Ok, I am at a loss. I installed the WD SATA, Plextar and a floppy and booted up. It posts and sees the WD HD connected to the #1 SATA port. The SATA jumper is enabled. When it reaches the SATA driver utility, it sees the WD as HD 0. Boot sequence is CD, Floppy and SCSI. Install asks for F6 if SCSI drivers and have hit F6. When XP gets to reading the HD, it doesn't see it and wants the 3rd party drivers. The current SATA drivers are there, so I don't know why XP doesn't see the drive. I am just running 1 SATA drive, not a raid config. I didn't get a SATA utility floppy with the drivers on it (purchased a barebones sys) and if I don't select installing the drivers, it of course doesn't see the drive at all and wants to stop loading XP.

I downloaded drivers (from the ASUS) and tried to put the SATA driver on a floppy but it's too big. I copied the ASUS CD SATA driver info to a disk and downloaded SATA drivers from the Silicon Image site and put them on a disk. It can't find "Si3112r.sys", but I know it is there. I am not sure which files I need. What do I need to do to get the XP setup to read the drive?

Can you pull the XP CD and replace it temporarily with the motherboard software CD until the drivers are loaded?

No, it only allows input from the A drive.

You should definitely figure out what is causing this issue, but one option you have, if all else fails, is to install your OS on a normal IDE HD, and use your SATA drive and a second data drive...just a thought...

As this was a barebones system put together by a vendor and the SATA was OEM (didn't include disk or instructions) I wasn't sure what needed to be loaded. I downloaded the ASUS SATA driver including the GUI that I didn't need. I have seen other mfgs drivers with "install" files you expand, but ASUS didn't have one. I thought I had picked all of the files I needed, leaving the GUI files alone, but must have left one out..therefore it wasn'
t seeing the drive. After working the the vendor, I found out what I needed..copied them to the disk and ran it. No problems.
XP is loaded and now I just have to copy files and load programs.

Thanks to all for the help.

Good deal...glad to hear it worked out...

Im having some problems aswell trying to get my SATA hard drive to work, whats are the jumper settings on most MOBOs? Any linkage would be useful aswel By the way, Im never buying OEM again!

What are your system specs? Specifically your motherboard...

Intel i875P Chipset........But Ive already tried downloading the updates from Intel and it wont work because my computer is a Dull..... argh........

gadget what did you put on the floppy as im hving exactly the same problem

hey i have the some MoBo and am haveing the same problem installing XP ......... i can't seem to find the right files to make xp even start loading the drivers for the SATA ......... plz some one post a list of the exact files need to make it work

You got a floppy disk with your mobo/sata controller.

When windows install prompts you, press F6 and insert the floppy.

the controller is on the MoBo ..... and all i got from Asus is the drivers CD ........ what i need to know is what files i need to set up on a floppy that windows will reconize and load from

i have the same MoBo not just some MoBo(as i seemed to have miss type earlyer) ..... its the A7N8X-E Deluxe

It has been about 3 months since this issue, but as I recall, I called or e-mailed tech support with Monarch Computers. I explained that the new install for XP was asking for the SATA drivers as the BIOS was detecting the drive. I downloaded what I thought was the drivers from the Asus site..I think..but had a problem opening it off of the floppy. I told the Monarch tech this and he e-mailed the correct drivers. No problem with the install after that. I looked though my emails for the link to the correct drivers for my ASUS MB, but haven't found them yet.

I've installed WindowsXP on an A7N8X-E a few weeks ago. I just needed to download the Silicon Image drivers located HERE (4.38mb).

Obviously the contents of that file are too big to put on a floppy. The only thing you need to have on your floppy are the following files (all located inside the zip file you've downloaded):

• Si3112r.inf
• Si3112r.mpd
• Si3112r.sys
• SIISUPP.VXD
• SIWinAcc.sys
• TxtSetup.oem

With these files on a floppy, once loaded at the beginning of the XP install procedure, it will find your SATA HDD & offer you the option to install XP on that drive.

thanks so much didou that is exactly what i needed to know ....... finnaly eveything works

Can you please tell me where you got the drivers I have the same problem. Thank you.

si3112r.sys ... i was having the blue screen of death cause my raid driver's where out dated goto asus web site down latest drivers they are microsioft cerified driver version

1.0.050 date 5/12/2004
hope this helps any ques email me

Anyone please help me to get SATA drivers for XP Pro / WD740 that I could fit it on a floppy.
Really appreciate it.