Thinkcentre 8705 installing troubles

[liliggyracin]

Machine type 8705-D6U

Heres the deal. I am trying to put a fresh copy of windows XP pro on this machine however it does not read my SATA drive. So I go to support and downloads and look for drivers for the SATA controller. After failing to find them I get frustrated and contacted there SW support. What a mess. The guy pretty much tells me that he wont help me because we are using a different version of XP then what came installed on the machine.... (And to think we are in the process of ordering 300+ machines in the next 3 years) Anyway. I need a driver or a cheat to get xp installed on this machine. I cannot find a darn Driver for the MB on their website. Anyone have any ideas???


Thanks!!

Curtis

[liliggyracin]

Ok nevermind. Close or put this somewhere where others can find it. Here was the problem

There are 2 sata ports on the MB one on top of the other if you are looking at it. It was plugged into the top one which would be #1 it should have been in the bottom one which is labeled #0 the CD was looking for a drive on 0 and not 1. This came from the factory like this and is now installing XP. Just thought I would update in case others had the same problem.

Thanks!!

Curtis