Also it takes a long time to read (open) the driver floppy in my old computer and it seems to install in no time at all in the new one,or is it the turtle vs the hare thing ???

I have looked into that also.
The 2 SATA II ports are controlled by the Nvidia nf3 chip and the
other 2 SATA I ports are controlled by the SIL 3512 chip.

Hello thanks for the help, Yes I hit F6 when it's shown at the bottom of screen during xp setup....then it prompts for a S for mass storage drivers. I hit S,insert floppy with the drivers giga-byte...

I have tried all of that..even giga byte has sent me a driver to use and it didn't work, went and bought a maxtor sata thinking hd might be bad but no differance.The drive is shown in the boot. It...

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I’m new to building a computer so I need all the help I can get. The problem is the computer doesn’t seem to find the hard drive, when it starts xp setup and it comes to a point to hit enter...