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Sil680A ATA card drivers
Rohan
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I'm doing an upgrade for a friend's machine, and need to install Windows on an ata hard drive. His new motherboard, an Asus P8H61-M LE/USB3, has no ata slots. I had an ata controller card laying around, so I've installed that. Trouble is, Windows setup, installing on the pc, will not show the drive. It will let me browse it when I try to look for drivers (it recognises it as drive X), but won't show up as a drive I can install Windows on.
The card is a Silicon Image 680A, and looking on the Silicon Image website shows a large list of drivers. I've tried Windows base drivers, 64- and 32-bit, dos drivers, and everything in between... Windows will not accept them when I tell it where to look. I don't think I've tried all the drivers on the page, but I don't want to at this point. Can someone tell me what driver Windows setup will let me access so I can install Windows on his ata drive rather than having to create a partition on his stuffed 500gb and 1tb sata drives?
There's a disk drive attached to the controller also, and Windows setup will not launch from it. But, again, I can browse it to look for drivers... sigh. Any help here would be great.
Edit - Using a usb key to keep adding drivers to try.
The card is a Silicon Image 680A, and looking on the Silicon Image website shows a large list of drivers. I've tried Windows base drivers, 64- and 32-bit, dos drivers, and everything in between... Windows will not accept them when I tell it where to look. I don't think I've tried all the drivers on the page, but I don't want to at this point. Can someone tell me what driver Windows setup will let me access so I can install Windows on his ata drive rather than having to create a partition on his stuffed 500gb and 1tb sata drives?
There's a disk drive attached to the controller also, and Windows setup will not launch from it. But, again, I can browse it to look for drivers... sigh. Any help here would be great.
Edit - Using a usb key to keep adding drivers to try.
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