Asus P6T Deluxe - Slipstreaming Drivers on XP disc - WHICH ones???

[nauidvr1]

First, I have to admit I am not as up to date as I used to be on Asus MB's. I am building a new i7 system with an ASUS P6T Deluxe MB and have received most parts, but still waiting on a few more.

I have an old, purchased, version of Windows XP SP1a, and I am creating a disc with SP3 slipstreamed in and have done this several times using the nLite software, for other Asus boards that needed SATA drivers.

Here are my issues/questions. I recevied the MB with driver disc and started to build the slipstreamed XP SP3 disc with SP3, IE7 and all the Asus drivers. However, when I started drilling down thru the driver disc, I see that there are alot of drivers for several operating systems (32 bit & 64 bit as well). My questions arise when I am looking for 32bit Windows XP SATA drivers - there are 2 driver .inf files, but I am not sure which one I need to slipstream or if I need both?

Does anyone have a list of all the drivers that should be loaded for Windows XP 32bit (NTFS file system) for the ASUS P6T Deluxe MB?

The whole idea for this is, that if I slipstream in the SATA driver(s) and all the necessary MB drivers, then I won't need a floppy disk to load the SATA drivers during installation of XP - because SP1a did not support SATA. Then when the Windows XP installation is complete all the drivers are loaded and all devices are working - killing several birds with one disc. Or maybe because I am slipstreamimg SP3 I don't need the ASUS SATA drivers? Are there generic SATA drivers in SP3 that will work to get the operating system loaded without the use of a floppy?

Thanks for any replies!

NAUIdvr1

 

[bobbknight]

Unless you are using the sata drives in raid or ahci, with sp3 slipped to xp all you need to do is set the bios sata controller to IDE.

 

[nauidvr1]

Yes, I am going to use the SATA drives in a mirror RAID.

 

[sunkai]

Did you figure this out in the end nauidvr1? I have the same specs and issue.

In fact, when I try to install XP 64 I get a BSOD, even with a premade Intel driver disk for the SATA raid.

 

[nauidvr1]

Yeah,
I kinda figured it out. But I ended up loading a minimial set of drivers because the ASUS DVD had so many to chose from I wasn't sure which ones to load. So I loaded MB drivers and a few others I could figure out easily, then loaded the rest off the ASUS DVD after Windows loaded. Not quite optimal, but worked!

NAUIdvr1

 

[nauidvr1]

Did you figure this out in the end nauidvr1? I have the same specs and issue.

In fact, when I try to install XP 64 I get a BSOD, even with a premade Intel driver disk for the SATA raid.

Yeah,
I kinda figured it out. But I ended up loading a minimial set of drivers because the ASUS DVD had so many to chose from I wasn't sure which ones to load. So I loaded MB drivers and a few others I could figure out easily, then loaded the rest off the ASUS DVD after Windows loaded. Not quite optimal, but worked!

NAUIdvr1

 

[sunkai]

Thanks for the response. Did you try to load it without streamlining the drivers first? I get a BSOD at the beginning of the install process when it says "starting windows" (i.e. after the drivers have been loaded from the disk).

This is somewhat concerning and I can not figure out which drivers it needs to proceed. Can you remember which ones you used?

Thanks for the help.