A7N8X-E Deluxe Problem installing XP on single SATA Drive

[Rainer Roesch]

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: (e-mail address removed)

 

[Eyman]

you need to put the SATA drivers on a floppy disk

windows setup wont read it from the cd.

Eyman