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KV8-MAX3 with VIA 8237 SATA and WinXP x64
This went into the alt.comp.mainboards.abit group to earlier today but I
figured it was worth posting here as well. Has anyone actually managed to use the Via 8237 SATA driver to successfully install WinXP64 on a SATA disk? I've created a SATA driver disk using the instructions provided on a number of websites and I've also tried integrating the drivers onto a new custom setup CD. I have a Abit KV8-MAX3, with a Samsung 160GB SATA drive, a Sony DVD-RW drive and I'm using a Sony USB floppy drive. When I boot with the XP64 CD in the DVD Drive, I get to the F6 stage to install a 3rd party storage driver and setup reads the floppy, installs the RAID Driver and eventually gets to the stage where the partition table is displayed and you select where you want to install XP. Just after I select where to install and setup begins the file copy process it then asks for the SATA driver disk on Drive A: and will not move forward from that point. I end up having to reboot the PC. If I install from the custom integrated setup CD it all goes smoothly until the file copy process as above where it then stops and asks for the SATA Driver disk again. Anyone else experience this? -- JasonB To reply, replace nospam4me with blueyonder |
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JasonB wrote:
This went into the alt.comp.mainboards.abit group to earlier today but I figured it was worth posting here as well. Has anyone actually managed to use the Via 8237 SATA driver to successfully install WinXP64 on a SATA disk? I've created a SATA driver disk using the instructions provided on a number of websites and I've also tried integrating the drivers onto a new custom setup CD. I have a Abit KV8-MAX3, with a Samsung 160GB SATA drive, a Sony DVD-RW drive and I'm using a Sony USB floppy drive. When I boot with the XP64 CD in the DVD Drive, I get to the F6 stage to install a 3rd party storage driver and setup reads the floppy, installs the RAID Driver and eventually gets to the stage where the partition table is displayed and you select where you want to install XP. Just after I select where to install and setup begins the file copy process it then asks for the SATA driver disk on Drive A: and will not move forward from that point. I end up having to reboot the PC. If I install from the custom integrated setup CD it all goes smoothly until the file copy process as above where it then stops and asks for the SATA Driver disk again. Anyone else experience this? Gave up trying to get this to work on a SATA drive. Ended up installing a Maxtor ATA 133 80GB drive as the primary on IDE2. Have now got WinXP64 installed and can boot ok. First impressions are that it does seem to be quicker then WinXP32 however I don't have all of the applications installed that I would normally use, so this is pretty subjective at the moment. Also I don't have internet connectivity on WinXP64 because Netgear, damn them, won't release a set of 64bit drivers for the WG311 PCI Wireless NIC. It's based on the Orinocho chipset which has great support for mainstream Windows Versions but sod all for WinXP64. Only other niggle I have is that to boot the WInXP64 drive I have to swap the controllers around in the BIOS. For some reason, even though I have WinXP32 installed on a SATA drive it refuses to boot the WinXP64 Partition until the IDE controller is first in the list instead of the Bootable Add-in Card option. -- JasonB To reply, replace nospam4me with blueyonder |
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