Re: Installing SATA Drivers - Driving Me Nuts

the problem seems to be that the bios (and i have the latest) does not even
recognise the maxtor 6v300fo hdd. this hard drive doesn't even appear on the
maxtor website.
i am able to load drivers at the f6 stage but the hdd is still not detected
because the board/bios is not detecting it.












"Bill Drake" <bdrake@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You need to figure out what RAID Chip is used on your
motherboard. According to the Asus website, the
motherboard in your machine uses the VIA KM800
Northbridge and the VIA VT8237R Southbridge.

The VT8237R (the "R" is the significant factor)
contains the SATA interface components. The
RAID chipset driver for this chip is the driver you
need to properly interface to your SATA Drive.

See the ViaArena website at: http://www.viaarena.com/

This website is the place for the latest info on VIA
chipset drivers, compatibility issues, bugfix-info and
all the necessary BIOS tweaks required to properly
interface to your Hard Disk.

Please note you will require a Floppy Drive to be
installed in your machine -- and you will need to create
the required Floppy Disk for the VT8237R SATA drivers
in order to perform the F6-floppy install process to get
the required SATA Drivers loaded so WXP can "see"
your SATA Hard Disk.

(You can also use nLite to merge the VT8237R SATA
drivers into your SP2 slipstream and make a new
CD-ROM disk with on-disk VT8237R SATA support.
Google for nLite for more info on how to use nLite
to make upgraded WXP install CDs.)

Note: Maxtor is known to have a problem with some
nVidia-chipset motherboards and SATA drives.
This manifests as a "disappearing" hard disk
(failure to detect the drive) - which is exactly
what you are describing. You could have a
similar problem - and you may need to contact
Maxtor for a firmware upgrade to your Hard
Disk to allow the disk to be reliably detected by
the SATA Hardware on your new motherboard.


Hope this helps.


Best I can do for now. <tm>


Bill






Rat_uk wrote:
bios upgrade done. still does not detect sata drive.


"Rat_uk" <bumboy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i am trying to install winxp home edition OEM onto an asus p2-ae2
pundit machine sing a maxtor diamondmax 10 sata drive.

the cd is a sp2 slipstream from my original home edition cd. windows
(and the bios) do not recognise the sata drive at start up and so i
press f6 to install sata driver.

asus do not supply a driver on their installation disk and the
maxtor sata drivers don't work. i get a number of errors but
basically the maxtor sata drivers will not load and therefore i am
stuck trying to get xp onto my machine with no help from asus
website at all. there are many forums filled with people who are having
the same
problem but no-one seems to have an answer. does anyone know how to
get the motherboard and/or windows to recognise the sata drive.

i have read somewhere that it is because i am using OEm disk but i
have used this to install 3rd party drivers on other machines.





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