HDD SATA on motherboard ASUS P4P800S-X

[Venomus]

Hi to all, im new on this forum and i was hopping you can help me.
I have a ASUS P4P800X-S Motherboard on my pc i know that is a lil bit old but it still works great. Im using 2 hdd IDE on it and I was thinking to install a hdd SATA .
Is that possible ????
Thanks to all of you.

 

[brucethetech]

Yes but it is pointless. You dont get the benefit of a sata confuration b/c (unless your board had sata ports) you'll buy a converter to take ide connection to a sata connection but you're limited to the speed and features of IDE since that is the connection on the board.

 

[mailpup]

It appears to me that your motherboard has two SATA ports so you can install a SATA hard drive if you want. Make sure you have the motherboard's SATA controller driver installed.

 

[Venomus]

Thanks ! Yes i have seen those ports on my motherboard that how i get the idea lol.
And the benefits are that i can have much more space on a hdd SATA so i can remove one from my 2 hdd IDE that i have already installed.
@ mailpup, how can i detect if those drivers are installed ?
Thanks.

 

[mailpup]

Check the Device Manager for any devices that have a yellow symbol next to it. That would indicate a driver problem. To be sure you could always install the latest driver anyway.

 

[Venomus]

ah you mean after that i had installed the hdd SATA ?
any extra cable that i should buy to make the installation ( motherboard with hdd SATA ? Thanks mailpup

oh extra question this morning when i turned on the pc i had to restore the time & date ? do you think that that the motherboard battery is gone ?

 

[mailpup]

You can install the SATA drivers before if you wish.

I'm not sure what you mean by extra cable. You need a SATA 3GB/sec. compatible cable.

Yes, the first thing I would do is change the CMOS battery.

 

[Venomus]

Thanks a lot your great

 

[Mirob]

I had a number similar mobos (P5P800 and P5P800se.) I never had a problem with the SATA ports. XP recognizes them. You may want to update the drivers but it should just work. Newer OS'es should be fine too.
(edit-I was wrong. I thought it was 865 but it's 848.)
Here is the (correct) driver page,
http://www.intel.com/support/chipsets/sb/cs-009237.htm

 

[Venomus]

Thanks Mirob