Motherboard "Acer F690GVM" of an Acer Aspire M1100
Good day,
I want to install Windows 2000 Server on an Acer Aspire M1100. The machine's harddisk is a WD Caviar 320 GB attached via S-ATA. The S-ATA controller sits on an Acer F690GVM mainboard. Since S-ATA is newer than Win 2k, it is not supported by Win 2k Setup (Setup does not see the disk). Therefore I need to load the appropriate S-ATA controller, using that F6 key right at the beginning of the Setup. Alas, the Acer came without any CDs or other documentation (and with Vista pre-installed). Hence I have no device driver for the S-ATA controller of said mainboard. An extended half-day long search via Google, Acer pages etc. did not even hint at the existence of such a driver. (I wrote to Acer but I did so before and know it takes eternities until they answer.) Can someone help me to find the drivers for the F690GVM board? By the way: I am not able to identify the location of the S-ATA controller itself. Where the heck is it? Maybe I can find out the "real" manufacturer of it and obtain a driver from them? Your help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance! //Herbert PS: It's not an option to hamper with the BIOS, say to switch the ATI SATA Type from AHCI to ATA, install the OS, change it back after finding the drivers, because the silly PhoenixAward BIOS has an unchangeable entry "ATI SATA Type: Native IDE"... PPS: I tried to make a slipstream with SP4, but even SP4 does not go beyond the stage of where the Setup procedure says "No harddisk existent". PPPS: Other hints also gladly accepted. |
Motherboard "Acer F690GVM" of an Acer Aspire M1100
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