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I've been looking for drivers for my Asus P5BW-LA motherboard (running Windows XP Pro SP3) that will allow me to use RAID and/or AHCI SATA mode instead of IDE. I found two different candidates:
https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/17762/Intel-R-Matrix-Storage-Manager-V8-9-0-1023
Does anyone know which one I need? I'm guessing it's the second one since it supports Media Center Edition (which is what the PC in question was originally installed with), but I just wanted to be sure? Am I going to have to slipstream these drivers and reinstall Windows XP to properly install them? I downloaded both .exes and extracted them, but I couldn't find any .inf files in the resulting folders to use with nLite. Thanks.
Pete
Posted 2017-08-25T22:22:17.620
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I don't have a floppy drive. And I'm not sure if I can use a USB floppy drive if I can find one. – Pete – 2017-08-26T01:07:14.270
You should be able to. XP does not support loading AHCI drivers from USB thumbdrives, but a floppy, even connected via USB should work. – music2myear – 2017-08-26T01:17:48.613
I downloaded the utility from Intel to look at it. Why does the readme mention an .exe file even though there isn't one in the .zip I downloaded? – Pete – 2017-08-26T01:26:27.797
I just downloaded chipset and mass storage drivers from driverpacks.net. Can I just use nLite to create a new XP .iso, burn it to CD, and slipstream the driver (IASTOR.INF) to the PC? Do I need to install 965g.inf (chipset) as well? – Pete – 2017-08-26T03:21:49.757
Yes; You can do that. Might want to test if the driver even solves your problem first though by using a floppy disk. – Ramhound – 2017-08-26T09:25:39.753
Just got the RAID controller to install by slipstreaming it! Windows XP now successfully boots from the HDD with the SATA Mode in the BIOS set to RAID! It doesn't work when I have it set to AHCI, though. And I haven't tried it with IDE mode. Thank you for the advice, however! – Pete – 2017-08-26T23:08:38.460