RE: Installing Windows on SATA Drive

Hammer:
Thanks so much for your reply. I have resolved the issue. I talked with mobo
tech support this afternoon, they had me take out one stick of memory,
leaving one stick in the slot #2; flash the BIOS; and in the BIOS change the
"DRAM Voltage Control" from 2.6 up to 2.8.
It worked like a charm, loaded windows without any glitches and wala, new PC
up and running great.
Thanks so much for your advice.

"Hammer76201" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I had a similar problem with an Intel D865PERL motherboard with a Western
> Digital 250GB SATA. Does your board have hyper-threading and USB 2.0 support
> built-in to the BIOS? The Intel board has both. What I found is that the
> hyper-threading and USB 2.0 support somehow conflick with the communication
> channel of the SATA drive as a result, the drive "hangs" during start up. I
> also noticed that if the system has a floppy drive, the floppy drive light
> stays on (lit) when it gets to the hung state. I worked around the problem
> by temporarily disabling the hyper-threading and set the USB support to
> legacy disabled. Then install worked correctly. After getting XP installed,
> I then turned on hyper-threading, reboot and everything was okay. Next, I
> turned on USB legacy support and it worked fine. You might have to play
> around with the USB speed settings. I found that FULL versus HIGH-SPEED also
> impact XP.
>
> Just my nickle's worth, Hammer76201
>
> "Byegone" wrote:
>
> > I have a brand new system that I am trying to install windows 2000
> > Professional or XP Professional on and it will not allow me to do this. I am
> > using: LanParty UT nF4 SLI-D, ATX, socket 939 motherboard by DFI; AMD Athlon
> > 64, 3200+ processor; SATA Ultra16, 7200, serial ATA/150, 300GB, 16MB cache
> > hard drive by Maxtor; and, 1GB Corsair 3200 DDR memory.
> >
> > I went through the BIOS setup as instructed through the manual. Once
> > completed with the BIOS, I am instructed to insert the system CD. I insert
> > the CD and press enter as instructed and a message appears stating, "Setup is
> > inspecting your computer's hardware configuration..." and that is all I get.
> > The message stays there forever.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated. (Oh, I tried setting the SATA drive
> > on 1 and switched it to 3 with no difference. I also tried with one stick of
> > memory and also with two and no difference).
> >
> > Byegone
.

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