New PC Intel Or Amd

yep there was something on Asus. in the readme file they also said to
use the enclosed disk, which i don't have. Put one together with the
provide drivers andso and inserted it into the XP installation. XP
then said it had a driver and if the manufacturer didn't give a good
reason i should use it. So i'am going to. Or is that a bad idea and
should i use the driver from Sili instead?

Klaas


On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 11:55:08 -0500, "J.Clarke"
wrote:

On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 21:37:02 +0100
JustMe wrote:

Hmmm my SATA HD came in sealed plastic no floppy/drivers either. Where
should it be? ASUS for the mobo or Maxtor for the hd? any location on
the internet where i can get it?

Since the problem is that the SATA host adapter on the motherboard is
not supported by the standard ATA driver that comes with XP, it is
obvious where you need to look. If there is not a driver on the ASUS
site then try the manufacturer of the SATA chip.

tnx
klaas


On Sun, 2 Nov 2003 19:55:44 -0000, "Ben Pope"
wrote:

JustMe wrote:
Hi,

I think i run into one off those snipes.

I put the system together. On boot time it sees the SATA drive, but
not as the primary disk.

What do you mean "primary disk"?

Windows XP can't find it now and says that
there is no Hard drive in the system.

When does it say that? During setup? Did you install the Driver by
hitting F6 on setup startup?

Booting from floppy works, and
fdisk can find the drive and put partitions on it, but off course
thats not what i want.

How can i get system to see the SATA disk al primary disk and
install XP?

You need to set the boot order to SCSI. And you need to install the
driver.

Ben



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JustMe wrote:
Hmmm my SATA HD came in sealed plastic no floppy/drivers either. Where
should it be? ASUS for the mobo or Maxtor for the hd? any location on
the internet where i can get it?

Driver linked from my FAQ:

www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html#Drivers

Will need to extract the files in the zip onto a floppy and use that.

Ben
--
I'm not just a number. To many, I'm known as a String...

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 01:09:48 -0000, "Ben Pope"
wrote:

JustMe wrote:
Hmmm my SATA HD came in sealed plastic no floppy/drivers either. Where
should it be? ASUS for the mobo or Maxtor for the hd? any location on
the internet where i can get it?

Driver linked from my FAQ:

www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html#Drivers

Will need to extract the files in the zip onto a floppy and use that.

Ben

Ok, next time i will use this one. I put one together from the update
on the asus site, but the cat file and some others where missing. It
worked however and the system is now up and running. Need to install
the local network and do some more testing and then... overclocking
time.

klaas

Hi,

I ****ed up the system badly and had to reinstall xp. I used F6 and
accepted the software from the diskkette. When XP installed the driver
it said (again did that also yesterday) that it wasn't an official XP
tested driver (something with no logo) and asked if i wanted to use it
anyway. I choose no this time and went on with the installation. I was
suprised xp could start from the hard disk without that drivers.
Perhaps it was just one off the components. Any ideas on this?

The reason i ****ed up the system was very simple. I inserted a web
cam on one off the USB ports to test if they worked. The cam was
detected so i pulled out the usb-cable and... got a blue screen. After
that it wouldn't restart from the hd. Seems like the boot record was
messed up. After installing xp again i tested this again and.. this
time a blue screen but it would restart. After restart it give an
notification that the system recoverd from an sirious error and if i
wanted to transmit a report to Microsoft. Testing the same thing on
the other computer wiht an A7N8X-X in stead off the deluxe version
gave no problems. How can i fix this problem? (exept from shutting
down the system before removing usb cabels)

Klaas



On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 01:09:48 -0000, "Ben Pope"
wrote:

JustMe wrote:
Hmmm my SATA HD came in sealed plastic no floppy/drivers either. Where
should it be? ASUS for the mobo or Maxtor for the hd? any location on
the internet where i can get it?

Driver linked from my FAQ:

www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html#Drivers

Will need to extract the files in the zip onto a floppy and use that.

Ben

So on my new pc now.. seems to work fine.. now its time to overclock.
saw once a brief note here what the best way to start was.. can't find
it back now. Whats the best way / steps to overclock the system?

tnx
klaas

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003 01:09:48 -0000, "Ben Pope"
wrote:

JustMe wrote:
Hmmm my SATA HD came in sealed plastic no floppy/drivers either. Where
should it be? ASUS for the mobo or Maxtor for the hd? any location on
the internet where i can get it?

Driver linked from my FAQ:

www.ben.pope.name/a7n8x_faq.html#Drivers

Will need to extract the files in the zip onto a floppy and use that.

Ben

"JustMe" wrote in message
...
So on my new pc now.. seems to work fine.. now its time to overclock.
saw once a brief note here what the best way to start was.. can't find
it back now. Whats the best way / steps to overclock the system?

tnx
klaas


Going by your knowledge of pc's so far I would suggest you dont overclock
the pc until you learn a little more about it, especially what the "bios" is
and what the "os" is