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going from ide HD to Serial ATA HD.
ok last time i tried this it didn't work. o i am asking for some how to,s . I know that my motherboard is Serial ATA compatible here is the specs Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 600w power supply FX NFORCE 680I LT SLI INTEL SOCKET 775 motherboard intell 2.40 quad core CPU 4 Gigs of ram ( 2 gigs each stick) sli 2 8600 GT 256MB DDR3 XXX (Factory over clocked ) and 80 gig Ide Ultra Ata100 . I want to swap it out for a WD Caviar 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G. any advise ? -- 13th_Panther Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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going from ide HD to Serial ATA HD.
Read your mobo manual for any special instructions as per using a sata drive
as the boot device, it may involve ammending bios settings "13th_Panther" wrote in message ... ok last time i tried this it didn't work. o i am asking for some how to,s . I know that my motherboard is Serial ATA compatible here is the specs Windows Vista Ultimate SP2 600w power supply FX NFORCE 680I LT SLI INTEL SOCKET 775 motherboard intell 2.40 quad core CPU 4 Gigs of ram ( 2 gigs each stick) sli 2 8600 GT 256MB DDR3 XXX (Factory over clocked ) and 80 gig Ide Ultra Ata100 . I want to swap it out for a WD Caviar 500GB Serial ATA HD 7200/16MB/SATA-3G. any advise ? -- 13th_Panther Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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going from ide HD to Serial ATA HD.
i have it reads that it does and i thank you for the info . i just want to get all thhe info befor i install the hard drive. -- 13th_Panther Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |