SATA Problem still

[S.O.S.D.D.]

I was able to get the right ones Yes it's XP I keep forgetting there are
other better OS's out there
Yes brain freeze I've been at this silly thing for 8 hours now.




I was able to get the right ones Yes it's XP I keep forgetting there are
other better OS's out there
Yes brain freeze I've been at this silly thing for 8 hours now.
Now from where I left off: Like I said I loaded the drivers the right way.
loaded windows from
CD hit F6 waited hit S Loaded the windows XP controller driver. Continued
got to the part after
press F8 to load windows on drive. At this point is says there is no HD
connnected and asks me to exit

I'm at a loss now Any Ideas I've been reading a lot and haven't seen
anything on this happening.
TIA
One more thing in the boot up it shows the HD there Maxtor Y160MO 160GIG

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It's been a pain for me.

you said you would send me the right drivers.

That would be great. I don't know if that's going to help

though

I have everything up and running but only have one problem.

The Startup hangs for about a minute and a half. It hangs at Varifying DMI
Pool.

I did a complete new install to see If I could fix it that way.

I loaded the SATA driver si3112 at windows setup pressed F6 the S and picked
the Windows XP 2003 driver (It did not say raid on it like the last ones I
tried to load). I loaded up Windows no problems. Rebooted and it went great.
Then I Loaded the IDE controllers Gart etc. I downloaded these from Nvidia
the name of the driver is NF2V116_WXP. It was an auto setup.

After I loaded them the system started the hanging at DMI pool

I'm running my old HD right now it's a Maxtor 40 gig UDMA ATA 133 It's
running like clock work. I wish I could say the same for that SATA drive. If
you could help me I would very much appriciate it. TIA

 

[anon]

The correct / latest Silicon Image drivers, inc GUI utility are here,
http://www.siimage.com/products/sataraid.asp
If they are successfully installed you should get a notification on post
screen.
I assume also that biglba is enabled
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

 

[Rob]

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It's been a pain for me.

you said you would send me the right drivers.

That would be great. I don't know if that's going to help

though

I have everything up and running but only have one problem.

The Startup hangs for about a minute and a half. It hangs at Varifying DMI
Pool.

I did a complete new install to see If I could fix it that way.

I loaded the SATA driver si3112 at windows setup pressed F6 the S and picked
the Windows XP 2003 driver (It did not say raid on it like the last ones I
tried to load). I loaded up Windows no problems. Rebooted and it went great.
Then I Loaded the IDE controllers Gart etc. I downloaded these from Nvidia
the name of the driver is NF2V116_WXP. It was an auto setup.

After I loaded them the system started the hanging at DMI pool

I'm running my old HD right now it's a Maxtor 40 gig UDMA ATA 133 It's
running like clock work. I wish I could say the same for that SATA drive. If
you could help me I would very much appriciate it. TIA

The current file from nVidia for WinXP should read
"nForce_3.13_WinXP2K_WHQL_english". It sounds as if you have the old
set that ASUS provided! Are you trying to boot your machine with a
setup that has 2 drives installed with active boot partitions (1 SATA/ 1
PATA)? This caused conflicts on my A7N8X setup. Each one when
installed separately would boot fine but if both were installed the SATA
boot was screwy. HTH

Rob

 

[S.O.S.D.D.]

Seems I'm always leaving something out.
I am trying to run everything off the SATA drive, just having the one drive
connected. Do you happen to have the URL for the drivers?

 

[Ben Pope]

Seems I'm always leaving something out.
I am trying to run everything off the SATA drive, just having the one
drive connected. Do you happen to have the URL for the drivers?

Check my FAQ.

There should be no reason why a bootable PATA partition should interfere
with a bootable SATA partition (it works for me). You should be able to
select which one boots (first) from the BIOS boot order.

Ben

 

[S.O.S.D.D]

Check my FAQ.

There should be no reason why a bootable PATA partition should interfere
with a bootable SATA partition (it works for me). You should be able to
select which one boots (first) from the BIOS boot order.

Ben

String...

I'm booting in this order: CD FL SC what would you suggest for a boot
order?

Up to date I have loaded all the drivers from your site or that your site
suggested me to load.
I'm having no problems other than it hanging for two minutes just after
doing the boot seq.
I don't know anything about DMI is there any chance that you could explain
what happens at DMI varifying pool?
again thanks

 

[Ben Pope]

I'm booting in this order: CD FL SC what would you suggest for a boot
order?

Well that would depend on your habits.

Personally I think I have USB, CD, SCSI, IDE

SCSI == SATA and the IDE is unlikely to be booted - if it was, I think it
should run Linux although I haven't bothered to test that situation.

Up to date I have loaded all the drivers from your site or that your site
suggested me to load.
I'm having no problems other than it hanging for two minutes just after
doing the boot seq.
I don't know anything about DMI is there any chance that you could explain
what happens at DMI varifying pool?

Not without doing some research... but it happens just prior to looking for
a boot sector to load - stick your CD drive after your SC to see if that
fixes the problem.

Ben

 

[Innis Orr]

Hi,

I had the same problem with my new Raptor HD. I had one WD 1200JB on my PATA
set as master with the jumper on the back of the hard drive, and the Raptor
connected to primary channel of the SATA connector on the mobo.

When I first installed the Raptor, the computer hung around the verifying
DMI Pool for about 2 minutes. I checked the WD website for any information,
and found out that if there was only one drive on the primary PATA cable, to
remove the jumper from the back of the drive all together. I did it and the
boot up went as normal. Don't know if it will help you, but it might be
worth a try.

Once I had that sorted, I removed the power supply from the back of the
WD1200JB drive and set up XP on the Raptor, after setting up XP I set the
boot sequence to just SCIS.

HTH

Cheers,
Innis.

PS I now have a Raptor RAID setup - fast as f***!

 

[S.O.S.D.D]

device 160GIG


-------------------------------------------------------
It's been a pain for me.

you said you would send me the right drivers.

That would be great. I don't know if that's going to help

though

I have everything up and running but only have one problem.

The Startup hangs for about a minute and a half. It hangs at Varifying DMI
Pool.

I did a complete new install to see If I could fix it that way.

I loaded the SATA driver si3112 at windows setup pressed F6 the S and picked
the Windows XP 2003 driver (It did not say raid on it like the last ones I
tried to load). I loaded up Windows no problems. Rebooted and it went great.
Then I Loaded the IDE controllers Gart etc. I downloaded these from Nvidia
the name of the driver is NF2V116_WXP. It was an auto setup.

After I loaded them the system started the hanging at DMI pool

I'm running my old HD right now it's a Maxtor 40 gig UDMA ATA 133 It's
running like clock work. I wish I could say the same for that SATA drive. If
you could help me I would very much appriciate it. TIA

I have removed the jumper on the drive and also disabled all other boot
divices, just the SC was inabled.

I still have the same problem. 1 1/2 min of nothing happening While
Varifying DMI Pool

Does anyone happen to know, who I could talk to or some other suggestions?

I'm willing to try anything Within reason (I won't throw it out the window
Yet) LOL

Thanks for the support

I have learned a lot from you folks. TIA

 

[Rob]

Have you run Maxtor's PowerMax/MaxBlast software on your drive to verify
it's integrity? There might be some bad blocks on the drive causing the
delay. I had a similar problem with a new 120G Seagate SATA and testing
it found some bad blocks. Windows seemed to install OK but wouldn't
boot up properly. You should be able to get the software on their
website if you don't already have it.

Rob

 

[S.O.S.D.D]

Yes Rob I have do the test, it did come out with no problems. I also have
used it to partition the Drive. Works great and it's easy. Nice program.
Thanks for the imput. If you can think of anything else I would be grateful.

Have you run Maxtor's PowerMax/MaxBlast software on your drive to verify
it's integrity? There might be some bad blocks on the drive causing the
delay. I had a similar problem with a new 120G Seagate SATA and testing
it found some bad blocks. Windows seemed to install OK but wouldn't
boot up properly. You should be able to get the software on their
website if you don't already have it.

Rob

Yes Rob I have done the test, it did come out with no problems. I also have
used it to partition the Drive. Works great and it's easy. Nice program.
Thanks for the imput. If you can think of anything else I would be grateful.

 

[Natéag]

However no non-bootable CD should be present in the CD drive()s.
Otherwise, the computer will want to boot from the first available
drive - irrespective of BIOS settings.


I used to have Win98 on the first drive, WinXp on the second one.
Whenever I wanted to boot from c: (win 98), with d: (winxp selected
as boot drive in the BIOS, I would just insert a non-system
diskette in the floppy drive. The drive was formated with
Winimage, so that it would be transparent.



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