I have an MSI 865 Neo2 P. It is capable of handling SATA drives. I am looking at buying a SATA 2 drive. Is this going to work in my motherboard? Im guessing the are backward compatible but not sue. Also will it just be an easy plug and go or will I need to set it up some how when installing? Aprreciate amy fedback
does your motherboard support SATA2? if not no you cant have SATA2 to findout if you can look at the manufacturers website on he motherboard an it should tell you by the looks of it, no it cant support SATA2 MSI Board information
This post was edited on 11-05-2006 at 04:37 AM by Hank.
Sata2 drives have a jumper type thing over two pins at the back which limits them to 1.5gb/s (sata speeds), when you take that off it lets the drive go to 3gb/s (sata2 speeds). Just leave that on and it should work fine.
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