"massimo" said:
Hello
i have a MB Asus A8n SLI deluxe (bios upgraded 1007)
I have an hard disk Hitachi SATA2 3gb/sec
(
http://www.hitachigst.com/portal/si...i_baseMenuID=3d0cb215112b6934ab937c27aac4f0a0)
And the system do not boot (unable to load operating system).
can anyone help me??
Thank you.
Max
A quick question for you...
Is this disk, a boot disk taken from another computer ?
And then installed on your A8N-SLI ?
How will the OS get the needed chipset driver to read the disk
drive, on the new hardware ?
Perhaps if you do a Repair Install (with RAID disabled in the
BIOS, on the port you are using for the SATA disk), you can
fix it. From this posting, it sounds like the default MS
IDE driver will be enough to make it work, as the person
answering this question, says no F6 installed driver was required.
(Perhaps someone here can verify that, as I don't own this
board.)
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=385270&highlight=a8n-sli
If you do a Repair Install, your applications programs and
your settings will remain intact, but you will need to reinstall
any Service Packs and do all the Windows Updates again.
"How to do a repair install.
http://www.michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm "
If you manage to get the OS booted, Nvidia provides an all-in-one
chipset driver. I don't know how A8N-SLI users feel about this,
but if there is an option to disable the installation of any
Nvidia IDE drivers, I would make sure that the IDE driver
install is disabled. IDE drivers provided by chipset makers
can have problems, and you might see those problems if you
do a lot of CD or DVD burning. Try using default Microsoft
IDE drivers for a while, and see if they are reliable for
you or not. You can always use the Nvidia IDE drivers later
if you want.
For RAID, you don't have much choice in the matter, if you
want to use any hardware RAID features. For that, the chipset
maker's drivers are the only choice.
HTH,
Paul