Hello people hope things are well with you all, I love the Board, what i would like to ask is i have K8T Neo2 with a AMD 64 3500 venice core 1GB ram 120GB HD (IDE) , i didnt install the sata drivers when i setup as i had no SATA HD now im thinking of getting one (250GB). On post it says no bios installed and it says SATA2 150, ive been reading and some SATA drives are 300 does this mean i have to get a 150 speed drive ?? soz just not sure. also will an operating system install onto the SATA drive?? also it wont let me install the SATA drivers from the floppy DO i have to reinstall the OS so i can load them?, Thank you in advance folks, SMI2LE Jadedhills
Windows 2000 and XP (as well as any recent release of Linux) should detect the SATA controller and install onto it just fine. However, if you have to enable RAID to get the drive to be seen, then you will need to provide a driver for it. SATA and SATAII hard drives (150MB/s and 300MB/s, respective maximum transfer speeds) are the same otherwise, so you'll be able to use a SATAII hard drive on a SATA I controller and vise-versa without issue.
thank you for your advice i will now buy a SATA 2 HD at 300 speed Hope this works, will let you know Regards Jadedhills
Just remember: 300MB/s is a burst rate, not sustained rate. However, as drive technology improves, these will allow for faster sustained transfer rates, which run anywhere from 40MB/s to 60MB/s for ATA drives. So, a SATA II drive is going to generally be a better drive in performance vs. a SATA I drive, all things being more or less equal.
took all my equipment out of a cheap case and put it in a thermaltake, connected up and now no output to screen and thats before i installed the SATA HD, computer starts and seems to run ok screen says NO SIGNAL worked befor now it is AAAAHHHAAAAHHH sending me mad. im on strong pain killers so cant think straight. so took it to the local shop and said dont go over £100 as thats all i got, waiting for a phonecall. (was going to buy my 21 years together partner,wife, an engagement ring god she will be pissed) seeing i cant work, i ask is anyone on this board in the berkhamsted Herts area? so i could meet and discuss computer problems??? AMD 64 3500venice 1gb ram thermaltake cpu cooler K8T Neo2 pro board.:swear: PS Inno3d nvidia 6800 Ultra graphics card
