Re: New Installation to SATA disks
From: tony (anthony.donotspam.brown23_at_ntlworld.com)
Date: 11/15/04
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Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:52:37 GMT
"Trevor White" <TrevorWhite@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hello Tony,
>
> I also have a new MSI K8N-Neo2 mobo and have a pair of Western Digital
> Raptor drives attached to the first two SATA controllers. I have been
> playing
> with various installation scenarios and have not had any problems with XP
> pro.
>
> From your post it sounds like you might have your two drives defined as an
> array of some kind. In this case, when installing Windows, and after
> pressing F6 to load the drivers from the supplied diskette, you will see
> that
> Windows lists two device drivers in the selection window. You must load
> BOTH
> of these drivers for the NVRAID subsystem to function. So, after pressing
> "S"
> and selecting the "NVRAID" driver, press "S" again and select the "NV ATA
> Bus" driver as well.
>
> Another possibility is that the Driver diskette itself could be corrupt.
> You
> can refresh the driver disk from the MSI installation CD. Have a look at
> the
> back of the MSI manual, in the section on NVRAID, and you will find
> instructions on making a new diskette from the CD.
>
> As I said, in my case I have tried installing Windows to the SATA drives
> both natively, and as an NVRAID set. In both cases the installation went
> smoothly and Windows ran OK.
>
> Good Luck,
> Trevor.
Thanks Trevor,
After a lot of messing about I found on the MSI discussions site an article
where they recommend connecting to the 3rd and 4th SATA connectors, why they
don't say. I would have thought that it would work on 1 & 2 but there we
are!
I connected as they advise and tried to install XP again using the drivers
on the floppy and I got the BSOD with a stop msg at the point that setup
hung.
As an experiment I tried to install without the drivers, it WORKED with the
generic XP drivers.
I have had it running now for some 5 hours and so far it is OK.
Another strange bit of advice from that group was to only have 1 strip of
memory installed while installing XP.
Oh! well!, it works,
Thanks once again,
Tony
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