Hey Sprite

Be interested in how you got your SATA drive to boot - 'cos I just can't!!!
Have the K8V, AMD64 3200+, WD 120GB SATA Drive, stock fan, Thermaltake case

Everything fires up no problem, except I can't install onto the SATA drive,
even with the drivers on floppy. XP picks up the drivers, and then says no
drive to install onto!

Any pointers you have would be great!

Cheers

Darren


"SPRITE1001" wrote in message
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Hey Bill, got the K8V Deluxe myself so I dont know if there will be any
major
differences but I'll tell ya what I ran in to.

In reguards to XP 64. Honestly unless you love beta testing I'd leave it
alone.
I've played with it on a seperate harddrive and like all other beta and
early
releases it has issues here and there (major problem for me was lack of
sound
drivers for my sound card).

Check the volatage on your card, if its somewhat modern you should be
fine. I'm
using a Geforce 3 card in mine and its not having any issues.

If your planning on overclocking with this board you may have made a bad
investment. This isnt one of the boards that OC'ers go for when trying to
OC
the 64bit Chip. However I'm not an OC'er so I cant say for sure, try
posting on

alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd
for more detailed info on it.

If your not planning on OC'ing this board the Stock retail fan works just
fine
on mine. I run in an insulated case and my heat isnt anywhere near an
issue.
Again try the overclockers forum/NG for some more indepth advice if you do
want
to try it.

As for random glitches, I'd need to know more about what hardware your
planning
on running but i"ll give you some brief run downs from what I've seen and
delt
with.

First and foremost when it comes to set up, the prompt for how to get in
to the
bios will flash by at about warp 9 since its probably going to be set for
fast
boot. Either reset it hit f1 like a mad man when booting, also I found my
board
REALLY does not like dealing with a USB keyboard when trying to deal with
the
BIOS.

Download the newest drivers from via and asus. The most common complant I
hear
on this NG is the CD that came with the board not working. If your
planning on
running a SATA drive as your system drive this is crucial. Windows XP pre
SP1
does not ship with native support for SATA (I'm not even sure about post
SP1,
if someone can correct me please do) and so you'll have to load drivers
off a
floppy during setup, standard hit F6 when prompted deal.
Also the via sata controler will not light up the harddrive LED on the
case.
This is a known problem with this board. The normal IDE works as normal
and I
belive the promise controller works on it as well.

When setting up your drives if you use a SATA for system and IDE for
secondary,
should you get NT loader not found or some such error, dont freak, check
the
bios settings, my board likes to default to use IDE as boot when I make
any
type of drive changes (swapping out drives, etc..)

As always make sure you have a stable PSU, and download memtest86+. I
found my
board to be a bit picky about the ram and it was though using memtest that
I
was able to figure out it was the memory when I had an issue when
building.
Both the via sata drivers and memtest86+ will require a floppy, I know a
lot of
people that say the floppy is dead, do yourself a favor and make sure one
is
installed on this system, makes life nice and easy in the long run.

I think I've babbled long enough but hopfuly this should help with
anything you
might run in to.

Good luck
Arie