SATA drivers

thecremeegg

Hi there,

I have a 200Gb Maxtor hard disk that is SATA. Unfortunately, having lost my motherboard cd I cannot install the required drivers. Does anyone here have an Optronix motherboard or a link to somewhere that can help?

Many thanks

Cremey

jakemuk

Well whats the model woudl help alot !

thecremeegg

Hi, sorry

Model is Optronix AP24P5-AL8...thought i'd forgotten something

T4i

http://www.optronix.co.uk/

erm..........most of the website is under construction. Drivers are coming soon....?

T4i

Cant find you the drivers anywhere

Do you have the manual for the motherboard? It will tell you what 'chipset' it uses.

jakemuk

what sata controller is it ?

thecremeegg

Hi,
According to the manual it supports VIA PT800+VT8237/VT8235CE chipsets. I can't find the drivers or anything anywhere, and I find it odd since I've had the motherboard over a year. As for the SATA controller, how do I find that out?

Thanks

Cremey

T4i

Go here

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2&Type=1

If your running XP then this link will straight download them.

http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/VIA_RAID_V520C.zip

thecremeegg

Right, I installed those VIA drivers and everything went ok, asked to reboot etc. When I go to device manager under the scsi/raid controllers it shows "VIA SATA RAID Controller" with a yellow exclamation mark. When clicking on properties it says this device will not start. I've checked the bios and SATA is enabled, so I'm a bit stuck. I believe i'm right in thinking that I cannot even go about trying to get it to detect my SATA drive until I can get this SATA controller working?

Thanks

Cremey

thecremeegg

Finally found the solution! Having installed the VIA drivers, and got the exclamation mark, I was getting annoyed. Turns out that although SATA disks don't have jumpers for primary/slave etc, they have them for SATA I and SATA II. Mine was set to II whilst my motherboard only supports I. Quick change and all is well.

Many thanks for helping :beer:

Cremey