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Resolved: An issue with installing XP on new Serial ATA drives, drives not being recognized by XP
Just thought I would post this resolution to a problem I had involving
installing Windows XP Pro on my SATA Raid 0 set up so that it's out here. Most posts dealing w/this problem have the user make sure they are specifying F6 to install the drivers, and that usually works for most people. This post assumes that you actually know what you are doing up to that point. After that, you don't have a clue because you are still running into problems :-) Problem: System sporadically failing, mainly around the drives. Noticed clicking on a fairly old IDE WD drive (1 year), so decided to purchase 2 SATA WD 80GB drives for Raid 0 as replacement for the on board SATA. Could not get a stable XP installation. Could get raid 0 configured in BIOS, boot from CD for XP install, Press F6 to specify SATA drivers, then I would start running into problems. Most of the time, XP would not recognize the drives in the system. I was incorrectly assuming that there were some snafu's around installing SATA drives on my system, and mainly troubleshooted around the drives and how XP gets installed. I could get XP installed and the drives partitioned some times, however they would eventually start clicking/seeking and then the MBR would get corrupted. Symptoms/Troubleshooting IDE Drives Clicking Old IDE drives no longer readable New Serial drives seeking/clicking Using DataLifeguard would frequently hang when trying to format the drives through the DOS utility Aggressive BIOS settings would not see Raid 0 set in BIOS Slowing down FSB to 133mhz and memory would allow me to see Raid 0 and at least get XP installed (some times). However running XP install would come across periodic 15 sec delays when reading/writing to the disk Eliminated memory as a failure by using it in an old system. Old system did not have SATA so could not try the new drives Old IDE drives which I thought were corrupted WORKED in the old system. Now I'm scratching my ass...then the light bulb goes on. Checked the +5V in the BIOS, it was reading a steady 4.3-4.4. Not what you want on a 4 month old PSU. Resolution: Replaced Antec 480W PSU w/older Antec 350 PSU, +5V reading 4.9-5.0 All drives working now Install Serial ATA, Raid 0, XP Pro w/SP1 w/no problems Clean up mess In short: Check the PSU for +5 voltage! Just FYI, I don't have old/new benchmarks for my system but it is noticeably faster and completely rocks. SATA is definitely faster, Raid 0 seems more efficient. XP boots up probably 50% faster. Drives are ultra-quiet, it's like I'm running everything in memory. Tried out an old Medal of Honor game and could not believe the difference. Well worth the troubleshooting! ASUS A7N8X Deluxe r1.04 1008 BIOS AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton Corsair XMS 3200 512MB ATI 9800 Pro Antec 35OW PSU (replaced a 4 month old Antec 480W PSU) 2 WD 80GB SATA Raid 0 (Striped) Lite-on DVD -/+ R/RW Antec Super LanBoy ATX |
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