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Hi all

I'm busy repairing a computer and unfortunately when I formatted the harddrive to remove Vista, all the motherboard drivers were lost.

The problem I'm left with now is that the mobo is an old msi-7021 to which I don't have the driver CD. A subsequent problem is that now the computer doesn't pick up the SATA2 HDD I have connected to it.

I've tried searching for the drivers, and even the MSI website doesn't seem to have them. Can anyone suggest anything?

Thanks.
 
tco21 said:
Hi all

I'm busy repairing a computer and unfortunately when I formatted the harddrive to remove Vista, all the motherboard drivers were lost.

The problem I'm left with now is that the mobo is an old msi-7021 to which I don't have the driver CD. A subsequent problem is that now the computer doesn't pick up the SATA2 HDD I have connected to it.

I've tried searching for the drivers, and even the MSI website doesn't seem to have them. Can anyone suggest anything?

Thanks.
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Set SATA mode to IDE instead of AHCI in the bios.
 
@Silverlight - BIOS doesn't pick up the hard drive.

@PostmanPot - Yes that's the model number written on the board itself.

@JUGGY - There is no such option. It's an old BIOS setup; AMIBIOS NEW SETUP UTILITY - VERSION 3.31a
 
well if u just formatted the drive to do a reinstall then the board must be able to read the drive, boot from windows cd and load 3rd party drivers perhaps?
 
Thing is I've tried putting different 3rd party drivers onto floppy disks and the MOBO didn't accept any of them. Know of a link for good 3rd party drivers?
 
I think what he means is, it's like when you want to install XP on a raid setup, you need a mini disk with the drivers for the raid controller and then when you start the setup, you press F6 to install the driver, so that the setup picks up the HDD.
 
SharkBait said:
I think what he means is, it's like when you want to install XP on a raid setup, you need a mini disk with the drivers for the raid controller and then when you start the setup, you press F6 to install the driver, so that the setup picks up the HDD.
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Lord Fubar said:
http://driverscollection.com/?H=KT6V Series&By=MSI (Microstar)

or

http://www.driverstock.com/MSI-KT6V-SR-LSR-driver-download/14-9-11533/index.html
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Thanks!

SharkBait said:
I think what he means is, it's like when you want to install XP on a raid setup, you need a mini disk with the drivers for the raid controller and then when you start the setup, you press F6 to install the driver, so that the setup picks up the HDD.
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Spot on

Silverlight said:
If the BIOS is not picking up the drive then it might be dead:o...
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Nope, the drive works fine on other pc's.
 
Help! I've just got a Intel Cube Cove motherboard, and I want to set up a RAID array with windows XP. Problem is, the raid drivers are on a 3.5" disk (which came with the MB), and the MB has no legacy floppy drive connectors (ATA IIRC). How do I load the raid drivers when XP asks for them. Do I need a PCI - ATA card to use a floppy drive. Do people still use floppy drives?

Thanks in advance.
 
Thanks, but I don't think it'll help. The drivers still need to be copied to a floppy. The interwebz say that I need to burn a new Windows XP CD with the drivers on it, but that seems involved. Also, I don't know if I can add a file to a X64 disk because I'm using a 32 bit OS currently.
 
Thanks for the help guys. I have the drivers, just don't have a way to load them. But I've given up. RAID is over rated anyway. I'm just going to distribute backups to the other machines in my network, and use Intel's rapid recovery technology to keep a mirror of my drive. Thanks again.
 
use MSI LIVE UPDATE, after installing windows. you can download it from msi website.( assuming you installed windows already)
oops , drive not being read. sorry.
 
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