ATA questions
From: Lori Ann (LInczauskis_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 03/27/04
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Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 07:32:01 -0600
I am running Windows XP Professional. I have a newly built PC with NF7-S
v2.0 MB and Western Digital 120GB hard drive connected to onboard Primary
PCI controller. Athalon 2500+ processor. I have I/O Magic DVD RW connected
to PCI secondary controller.
The first time I loaded XP and loaded the Nvidia 3.13 drivers from the web,
it picked up my hard drive and DVD both as SCSI drives. Due to problems, I
flashed the BIOS, reloaded XP, turned off all Serial ATA functions in BIOS
before reloading and my hard drive is picked up now as standard drive. BIOS
sees the entire 120GB. I selected to load the Nvidia ATA drivers instead of
keep standard ones during the install of 3.13 drivers.
My question is--do I need to have any SATA functions turned on in the BIOS
for my hard drive to be recognized correctly? Also, after I installed a
floppy drive it seemed to conflict with the SATA drivers and they would no
longer load. The floppy drive says that it is compatible with NT and does
not say anything about running with XP. I called tech support and they
assured me that it is 100% XP compatible, but now I am not sure. Since
installing the floppy, I have errors showing up in cat2 also received
messages that cat2 was unreadable, but after rebooting the message seemed to
disappear.
If I reload XP with the floppy disconnected do I turn on default SATA in
Bios? Should I go ahead and delete partitions that I created after XP was
loaded? How do I remove cat2 so it can be recreated? It does not seem to
recreate this even after I wrote 0's to my drive and reloaded XP--or could
it be that it did recreate it but the floppy is causing problems?
Any advice would be appreciated--Also have no power or suspend lights on
front case--double checked polarity of led wires and they are all connected
correctly--That is one of the reasons that I do not think that XP is
actually recognizing the hard drive correctly.
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