Re: help with sata new winxp installation
From: vgramatges (vgramatges.16skjx_at_mail.mcse.ms)
Date: 05/25/04
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Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 20:31:12 -0500
I also have an ASUS P4S8X. I just got a WD 250 Gb SATA drive. Thank you
for your helpful advice! I'll make sure to check all of those BIOS
settings.
Can you tell me where to find the drivers that I will need to put on a
floppy? I have been looking everywhere for them.
Thanks.
Bob Harris wrote:
> *I have an ASUS P4S8X and had a similar problem.
>
> First, the drivers must be on a floppy, not on a CD. Second, it is
> not
> enough to have the drivers and INF file. You also need a file
> called
> oemseup.txt, which I got from my ASUS CD.
>
> But, before all this, be sure that the BIOS settings are set to boot
> from
> the SATA drive. Some of the settings I have include: Advanced, PCI
> Configuration, Onboard ATA device = enabled, onboard ATA device first
> = yes.
> Also, Boot, other boot device = SCSI/onboard ATA.
>
> Finally, the SATA controller on my ASUS motherboard is really a RAID
> controller. I did not want RAID, neither mirror nor striped, but it
> absolutely had to create at least one RAID array before things would
> work.
> I was able to create a "custom" arrary containing just one SATA disk.
> I did
> this using something called the promise Fast Track RAID Controller.
> This is
> NOT part of the BIOS setup. To access this controller I have to hit
> CRL-F
> after the power-on-testing is done. The motherboard manual did
> explain
> this, somewhere around page 120 or so. Read your manual, all of it,
> twice.
> Note that the RAID arary MUST be built BEFORE attempting to load XP,
> or XP
> will not see the hard drive.
>
> "laj" <jayjay@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:kgoi9090bij3mig6st3gsu9pfic2rd09r4@4ax.com...
> > I have a new asus k8v se mb with amd64 3200+. I placed a single
> new
> > (unformated or partitioned) sata drive in the primary sata plug.
> (not
> > the raid plugs) The bios sees the drive. when winsetup is done
> with
> > ide cdrom I push F6 to install the promise sata drivers for the
> board
> > (from the asus web site) but when it's all loaded it says it can't
> > find a hd to install winxp on and that's it.
> > Help. Do I have to partition this thing first with fdisk on a dos
> > floppy? I thought winxp would do all this. ( i want one partition
> (120
> > gb) and ntfs. will any fdisk do?
> > thanks,
> > Jack *
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