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    Unhappy Need help loading XP Pro on ECS with SATA

    I can't seem to load the OS with my ECS motherboard NFORCEM4M-A. I am using 2 SATA drives and can't seem to run them on a RAID 0 setup.
    What do I need to do to see the nvidia drivers during XP install???

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    You need a floppy disc with your SATA drivers (available from the ECS website, though you should also have recieved a floppy disc with these drivers on them with your motherboard).

    Then When XP Setup is loading press the button it tells you to (F6? can't remember) when it says "Press <key> to load 3rd party mass storage drivers" (or words to that effect)

    It will then read the floppy and give you a choice of drivers, choose the correct one (should only be one on the disc per OS - so choose the XP one [or 2k if there is no XP one] ), and you should be sorted

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    I did all that and when it got to the nvidia drivers it stopped loading.
    I now am loading Vista Premium Home Edition and got to the place where it restarted twice, but then it stopped loading just before it was finished. I got the blue screen of death. So now I'm going to do a normal hard drive load to see if that works.

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