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philo wrote:
On 09/07/2012 07:18 PM, BillW50 wrote:
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Ken1943 wrote:
XP SP3 , not sure with sp2, has sata support built in.

What? Are you talking about retail versions of Windows XP? As there
are no retail versions of XP SP3 that I know of. And no retail
versions of XP had any SATA support built in AFAIK.

Now as for OEM versions, that is totally different. I believe those
generic OEM versions follows the retail versions as far as SATA
support goes. But branded OEM versions were completely a different
thing. Some SP2 did and probably most SP3 did support SATA out of
the box.

Oh boy here goes

any version of XP with sp3 has built in SATA drivers.
I'm a computer refurbisher and have done hundreds upon hundreds of
installs and never had a problem with getting SATA recognized.

I'd make an sp3 slipstreamed CD....

That is what KenW cleared up for me two days ago. I personally like to
see how a machine works first with SP2 myself. As I have noticed that my
SP3 machines scroll web pages jerkier and breaks OE6 compacting. As it
often crashes with file in use error when it gets to folders.dbx. The
temporary fix is to switch OE6 for offline, close OE and then reopen and
then compact. That seems to always work that way.

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Bill
Gateway M465e ('06 era) - OE-QuoteFix v1.19.2
Centrino Core Duo T2400 1.83GHz - 4GB - Windows XP SP3