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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Long before the widespread use of SATA drive controllers, when RAID wasn't in common use by the end-user, if you wanted to install drivers for a RAID controller, you usually needed to install the (third-party) drivers as part of the Windows Installation in order for Windows to correctly 'see' and use the attached storage device(s). Essentially, RAID/SATA/SCSI (etc) are all just functions/features of a drive controller. My mainboard includes SATA and RAID - RAID is offered as a feature of the SATA controller. Essentially, it's a RAID controller with a SATA interface. This isn't necessarily always the case, but I've found a lot of RAID-less SATA controllers install with the stock Windows drivers from the SP2 CD (no hitting F6)... but not all... Ever since Service Packs 1 and 2, Windows XP has attempted to include a better selection of drivers for a wider range of hardware (including SATA and RAID controllers). Unfortunately, as XP is an ageing operating system (already) and new SATA/RAID products and developments are still being released frequently, there are a large number of controllers that there simply weren't WHQL'd drivers for at the time of SP2's release (for instance). This means that even when installing from an SP2 CD, it is sometimes still necessary to provide the (third party) drivers for your specific flavour of RAID/SATA controller. Perhaps your mainboard has no RAID function - perhaps Microsoft were just being lazy, and they left the term "RAID" in place for the optional installation of (third party) drive controllers..? Perhaps it saved them having to change the wording in all their old manuals when they released Service Packs, but kept the setup utility itself largely intact in its original form. Perhaps mutant killer zombie space monkeys conspired to confuse you... :eek: :D I have to ask, C:\ - why are you unable to determine if the keyboard is USB or PS/2? I presume this isn't an issue any more, but the curiosity is killing me! twitchtwitch Loading...
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