This one is driving me nucking futs.

Yesterday i had my A7N8x deluxe rev 2 booting happily into winXP from a
single maxtor 120gig SATA hdd. Then i bought a second SATA hdd, a 200gig
Maxtor. I wasn't interested in RAID, but i figured SATA is the way of the
future and i have a spare plug on the mainboard. So, the plan was to have
two seperate hard drives, one of 120gigs and the other of 200gigs.

A perfect opportunity to reformat and clean out the nerd-box, so i started
from scratch. I installed the two hdds, the smaller of the two as the
primary as this is where i wanted my windows install. I get through the
winxp install without a hitch, installing the SCSI driver as commanded, and
creating a single 120gig partition on my primary hdd. Once windows is loaded
and i have video drivers and such on, i format the 20 gig drive as a single
partition.

it all goes awry when i restart the computer for the first time without the
windows CD in the drive. The computer freezes after "verifying dmi
something....." it says booting from CD, but there is no CD to boot from.
and it never progresses. it just sits there. In much frustration i
disconnected the 200gig drive and windows booted up flawlessly. So i
reconnect the drive, and the same thing happens, the booting process freezes
without even making it to the windows screen. if i start the computer with
the windows CD in the drive, it loads fine, both hdds recognized perfectly.

After a search of google groups, i haven't come across anyone with the same
problem.

In a nutshell, windows won't boot with both hdds connected. I am not
interested in making an array, and yes, th ebios is set to boot from scsi.
Any ideas? i'm going to try flashing the bios to 1008 tonight, and i'm
hoping the updated Sil bios included in that will help, but i fear not. Any
ideas, people of usenet?

Bushy

PS. damn i'm long winded.

hooray, the 1008-D bios fixed my problem.

For those who bothered to read all of that, i apologise for wasting 2
minutes of your time.

Bushy


"bushy2" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> This one is driving me nucking futs.
>
> Yesterday i had my A7N8x deluxe rev 2 booting happily into winXP from a
> single maxtor 120gig SATA hdd. Then i bought a second SATA hdd, a 200gig
> Maxtor. I wasn't interested in RAID, but i figured SATA is the way of the
> future and i have a spare plug on the mainboard. So, the plan was to have
> two seperate hard drives, one of 120gigs and the other of 200gigs.
>
> A perfect opportunity to reformat and clean out the nerd-box, so i started
> from scratch. I installed the two hdds, the smaller of the two as the
> primary as this is where i wanted my windows install. I get through the
> winxp install without a hitch, installing the SCSI driver as commanded,
> and creating a single 120gig partition on my primary hdd. Once windows is
> loaded and i have video drivers and such on, i format the 20 gig drive as
> a single partition.
>
> it all goes awry when i restart the computer for the first time without
> the windows CD in the drive. The computer freezes after "verifying dmi
> something....." it says booting from CD, but there is no CD to boot from.
> and it never progresses. it just sits there. In much frustration i
> disconnected the 200gig drive and windows booted up flawlessly. So i
> reconnect the drive, and the same thing happens, the booting process
> freezes without even making it to the windows screen. if i start the
> computer with the windows CD in the drive, it loads fine, both hdds
> recognized perfectly.
>
> After a search of google groups, i haven't come across anyone with the
> same problem.
>
> In a nutshell, windows won't boot with both hdds connected. I am not
> interested in making an array, and yes, th ebios is set to boot from scsi.
> Any ideas? i'm going to try flashing the bios to 1008 tonight, and i'm
> hoping the updated Sil bios included in that will help, but i fear not.
> Any ideas, people of usenet?
>
> Bushy
>
> PS. damn i'm long winded.
>