Re: Single SATA drive...need VIA VT823x driver to be able to install Win-XP
- From: "David Cook" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:05:34 -0500
Thanks to all who replied. Yes, I found the 'viaarena' and after that,
it was straight-forward. Here are a couple of extra pieces of info
for the next person who happens down this road:
o One key thing (especially if I had not done the 'Linux experimenting') is
to look on the motherboard and locate the SATA chip. On mine, the
chip is a VIA VT8237 as mentioned before. Thus, one is conceptually
looking for a driver for THAT chip. So, in most cases, it would be THAT
company that would be the author of the driver (rather than ASUS, tho
ASUS might certainly distribute the driver on their CDROM as someone
mentioned.) However, I much prefer using a driver from a website rather
than from the motherboard CDROM, mostly because the website driver
is apt to be newer.
o During the Win-XP installation, it asks you to 'Hit f6' if you want to
load such a driver. Make sure you do that very QUICKLY after that msg
appears
(even tho they don't acknowledge that you've hit it for quite a while...a
minute or
two). Otherwise, you will get dumped out with the fatal msg about not
finding
any hard-drive.
o Much later during the Win-XP installation, it will ask you to insert a
floppy
containing the SATA driver-support stuff AGAIN! That surprised me...and
it sounded like they wanted something different. But, luckily, they were
totally happy with reading that same SATA-driver floppy.
Hope this helps the next person.
Thanks again to the repliers.
Cheers...
Dave (poster of the base note)
"David Cook" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am building a new system, using an ASUS A7V800 motherboard
> and using a single SATA hard-drive.
>
> The SATA BIOS chip is a VIA chip...a VT8237 to be exact. The SATA drive
> appears fine
> in the BIOS, and is on channel 0, as it should be.
>
> The goal is to install WinXP Pro. (I have a slip-streamed kit with SP2.)
>
> When I try doing the WIN-XP install, the kit fails to find any driver for
> the hard disk.
> (So, as other similar posts have mentioned, it is clear that I need to
> give it a driver,
> by doing the 'Hit F6' thing during installation.)
>
> [As an aside, after a few failed attempts at installing Win-XP, I then
> confirmed that the
> PHYSICAL hookups and BIOS enabling is all working fine, by using a Linux
> (MEPIS/Debian) installation
> CDROM, and its disk-partitioner sees the SATA drive and can create
> and destroy partitions just fine. I did NOT actually install Linux, nor
> did I leave any Linux
> partitions out there...I put the disk partitioning back to 'no partitions'
> before quitting the
> Linux-installer-CDROM. I did notice that the driver-name that Linux uses
> is:
> "Via Technologies...VT823x Bus Master IDE".]
>
> But, Win-XP installation still says it cannot see any hard-drives. So, I
> conclude that there MUST be
> some Win-SATA-driver out there that will make Win-XP-installer happy.
> But, the question
> becomes WHICH DRIVER?
>
> Or, maybe I need a BIOS update?
>
> The Asus website get very confusing fast. So, I wandered over to VIA
> Technologies website.
> It was even MORE confusing there, as everything I read ASSUMED that you
> already had
> Windows installed and running and could thus easily copy UPDATED driver
> onto your
> hard-drive. But, no sign of an actual SATA driver for VT823x for Windows.
>
> So, where do I get the needed driver?
>
> TIA and regards...
>
> Dave
>
>
>
>
.
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