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A7N8X-E Deluxe Problem installing XP on single SATA Drive
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I have following system setup: a7n8x-e deluxe board rev.01, BIOS 1006 , one seagate 120 gb sata drive. when booting the raid controller shows the drive as drive 0 (tried it on the other sata connector, then it showed the drive as drive 1) I tried to install xp. i used th "F6" to install the sata drivers from the asus cd - xp did not find the disk in the setup. I tried the newest driver from the asus website, xp didn't see the drive. After that I tried the driver from the Silicon Image homepage. XP saw the drive, formatted it and copied the installation files to the drive. Then it restarted the system. When booting it did not boot from the sata drive. It bootet from the CD-ROM instead. I tried following boot orders in BIOS with no luck: floppy - cd-rom - scsi cd-rom - scsi - disabled cd-rom - hd0 - scsi scsi - disabled - disabled When I try to start setup again it says that there is a windows installation on the disk, and asks me to delete it. Then the setup files will be copied again, it boots and yes - NO SYSTEM DISK FOUND..... What can I do ??? Please answer here to the forum or to my E-Mail: |
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you need to put the SATA drivers on a floppy disk
windows setup wont read it from the cd. Eyman "Rainer Roesch" wrote in message om... Hello, I have following system setup: a7n8x-e deluxe board rev.01, BIOS 1006 , one seagate 120 gb sata drive. when booting the raid controller shows the drive as drive 0 (tried it on the other sata connector, then it showed the drive as drive 1) I tried to install xp. i used th "F6" to install the sata drivers from the asus cd - xp did not find the disk in the setup. I tried the newest driver from the asus website, xp didn't see the drive. After that I tried the driver from the Silicon Image homepage. XP saw the drive, formatted it and copied the installation files to the drive. Then it restarted the system. When booting it did not boot from the sata drive. It bootet from the CD-ROM instead. I tried following boot orders in BIOS with no luck: floppy - cd-rom - scsi cd-rom - scsi - disabled cd-rom - hd0 - scsi scsi - disabled - disabled When I try to start setup again it says that there is a windows installation on the disk, and asks me to delete it. Then the setup files will be copied again, it boots and yes - NO SYSTEM DISK FOUND..... What can I do ??? Please answer here to the forum or to my E-Mail: |
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