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My new pc is nearly complete but i have no scsi support on my p5wd2-premium. How can i get around this as i have a perfectly good 200gb hard drive not being used. Thanks in advance.
When you posted about your new build in the other forum, I was curious as to why you were going with SCSI. I knew your board didn't support it & assumed you knew it too...I just figured you had a PCI adapter/controller card. Since you apparently don't, I think you'll probably find it'll be easier to buy a new HDD rather than the adapter, but that will be up to you
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On 2nd thought, considering the limitation of the PCI bus & given the fact that your $200 board supports SATA2, it would be foolish not to take advantage of it...then again, the same could be said about running a low end CPU & RAM, that's why I said I didn't like your configuration.
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Yes and no. It's doesn't work like that exactly with a controller card. Your bios will see that there is a controller card and in the boot settings you can set the controller card as the boot device. The controller card has it's own BIOS.
After your mobos BIOS completes you should see a brief screen where the controller card's BIOS detects the drives attached and it gives you the option to enter the BIOS for the controller card.
If you are wanting to install Windows on a drive connected tot he controller card you will need to have the drivers for the card on a floppy. Then during the initial part of the Windows XP installation from CD you will see a message at the bottom of the screen about pressing F6 if you need to install 3rd party SCSI drivers. Press it at that time and later in the installation you will be prompted to install the drivers from the floppy.
Michael J
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"I knew your board didn't support it & assumed you knew it too...I just figured you had a PCI adapter/controller card."
I thought the same too. At this point if I was you, I'd get an inexpensive & medium size harddisk (IDE) as the system drive and get a firewire external enclosure for that SCSI drive. (Next time don't put the cart before the horse)
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If i have a choice between a sata2 and ide at hardly any price difference i should get sata2 right?? By the way the scsi drive was from my old pc so it's not like i bought the drive specially for this build.
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"By the way the scsi drive was from my old pc so it's not like i bought the drive specially for this build"
I realize that (you said so in your gaming post), but I assumed you had a SCSI adapter or knew that you needed one.
I suggest the SATA2.
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/sata_install_tshoot.html
http://xphelpandsupport.mvps.org/how_do_i_install_windows_xp_on_a.htm
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