Need help installing windows...

[Guest]

So I got a new computer and put it together and after screwing around with
the BIOS settings and trying to configure the SATA drivers (Note to anyone
who reads this: DON'T GET THE GIGABYTE K8N PRO SLI) I finally got the SATA
drivers installed properly (I think) Anyway, whenever I try to install
windows, when I tell it to install, the screen says "Windows is copying files
to installation folders. this may take several minutes." and it gets stuck on
the first one (idecoi.dll) and it goes to a screen that tells me to eather
try again, skip the file, or exit. whenever I try to retry, the same thing
happens. the SATA drivers are on a floppy that I use to activate the HDD
along with RAID drivers (Even though I don't need them) That I load to
windows by pressing F6 before everything else loads. I think I need a chipset
driver on the floppy as well. What's the problem?

Specs:

3500+ Venice core

eVGA 7800GT

2GB Corsair Value RAM

Gigabyte K8N-pro SLI

SATAII 160GB Hitachi HDD

IDE Lite-on DVD-ROM drive

Sony 3 1/2 floppy drive

 

[Guest]

I know that SATA and SATA motherboard connectors are supposed to be backward
compatible, but maybe the problem has to do with installing a SATA II drive
to a SATA connector on the motherboard.

If the board has only SATA connectors, maybe using an adapter card with SATA
II connectors will fix the problem.

Eric,
PC Buyer Beware!
http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/