Re: SATA nightmare!!!

Hi Nick.

I had a similar config - and experienced similar problems.

It turned out to be my memory - no idea why memory problems arose during a
mobo upgrade but they did. Memory was (and is) fine in other systems.

Installing SATA in this mobo is a nightmare.

Bobby

"Nick" <a@xxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi there,
>
> Please help! I've got a new x64 system with a 200gb SATA hard drive.
> I'm using 32bit XP Pro. The second day of use and my system started blue
> screen looping (blue screen, crash, reboot, etc etc etc.). It turns out
> that its an issue with the RAID configuration within Windows "apparently".
> Anyway, my only resolve was to attempt to reinstall Windows. This is
> where my problem gets deeper, I needed to obtain the SATA drivers on a
> floppy disk, all good and they worked, except that Windows setup would
> hang when examining the drive. The only way I could resolve this was by
> using Partition Magic rescue disk and removing all partitions and starting
> again.
>
> Now Windows setup starts installing, which is great, except it stops at
> seemingly random points during install with "Setup cannot copy file
> <foo.bar>". I've tried re-burning my image of XP Pro but it still does
> exactly the same thing, if I reformat the parition and try again it stops
> on a different file. Surely my MSDN download isn't corrupt?!?
>
> What is wrong? I have RAID disabled, should I enable it? I have an
> Asus K8V Deluxe. Arrgh! It's so painful trying to install Windows!
>
> --
> Nick Pateman
>
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> Without predjudice
>


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