Okay, I know this is lame. Apologies in advance. I'm going out of my *mind* here! I've built a system around an asus p5wd2e-premium motherboard. I'm trying to install XP sp 2, with no luck. It runs fine on various linux live CD's, BTW. The Marvell controllers (which have nice, friendly, asus drivers) don't work. Alpha quality $4!t. Does anyone know where I might be able to d/l the actual drivers for the Intel SATA? Intel's site lets me d/l a .zip that contains an EXE...I can't run that without a windows installation. [I had a serious computer failure recently, so I have to drive back and forth to work to play with windows stuff. Very painful. Please don't ask]. I'm getting to the point of installing a vmware desktop in my ram disk just so I can install windows and extract this one stupid floppy...it's that bad. Anyone with suggestions, thank you
I finally learned (after I made the f6 floppy the old-fashioned way) that the driver CD that came with the mobo is bootable and has a utility on it to do the trick. For now, I've given up on windows. The only things I can't just run out of a VM are games, and I really don't have time for them anyway. Maybe when Vista comes out, the drivers and bios will have caught up with the hardware. Like a guy from work said to me the other day: spend a lot of time on the cutting edge, and, sooner or later, you're gonna bleed.