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Will my SATA card work in a Pentium1 (100MHz) PC?

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First post, by computergeek92

Posted on 2016-09-10, 09:38

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I fix up my unwanted computers to sell online. I have a SATA 1 PCI card laying around. It's a TR-822 (ver 1.0) 2-port card. The system in question is a Socket 5 Micron MPC with a 100MHz Pentium and 16MB ram. If I bump the ram to 64MB and plug in a 20GB or 40GB SATA hard drive, will it work with Windows 98SE? I see some drivers for it on driverguide.com but I haven’t tried them yet.

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Reply 1 of 3, by shamino

Posted on 2016-09-10, 11:27

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The motherboard probably doesn't meet the PCI spec revision that the card would say it requires, but it might work anyway. I think the only good way to find out is to just try it.

Reply 2 of 3, by synrgy87

Posted on 2016-09-10, 14:35

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if you're very lucky the bios may detect it as a SCSI controller, but doubtful it'd work on a socket 5 board you may not be able to boot from it, an alternative would be to use SATA to IDE adapters which are relatively cheap.

Reply 3 of 3, by bhtooefr

Posted on 2016-09-10, 16:59

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Also note that you may have to mess with the BIOS config a fair amount to disable booting from the onboard IDE controller, to make it use the option ROM.

But, only way to find out is to try it.

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