F6 does not work

[steveb]

I need to load some drivers during setup with the F6 command .I've tried 3
different keyboards and F6 will not respond during setup. F2 (ASR) responds
, however...

Any ideas?

 

[Ted Ruoff]

Are you waiting for it to ask for the diskette? When you press F6 Windows
will continue loading things and then ask you to insert the diskette for the
drivers. It's been awhile since I loaded, but it seemed like a long time and
I thought it hadn't worked either.

Ted

 

[steveb]

Should it respond right away (like F2 does) or does it respond after loading
EVERYTHING else?

 

[Ted Ruoff]

I've never had to use F2 during installation, but I seem to recall it was at
least a minute if not more before it came up and asked for the disk to load
the drivers. It does not come up instantly after pressing F6.

Ted

 

[steveb]

Thanks for the help...


I just needed to wait...now to find what its looking for.

 

[Ted Ruoff]

You're Welcome.

Ted

Thanks for the help...


I just needed to wait...now to find what its looking for.

 

[Sharon F]

I need to load some drivers during setup with the F6 command .I've tried 3
different keyboards and F6 will not respond during setup. F2 (ASR) responds
, however...

Any ideas?

If your keyboard has an F Lock key, press and hold to keep the function
keys active. You need the function key light to be on when you press F6.

 

[steveb]

Thanks....I was just not waiting long enough...it takes a while before it
prompts you for the additional disc with the drivers on it.

 

[*Vanguard*]

"steveb" said in news:8it8c.86414$1p.1310844@attbi_s54:

Thanks for the help...


I just needed to wait...now to find what its looking for.

Do you have an expansion card that contains its own BIOS, like a SCSI or IDE controller card? That's when you need to use F6 to load the drivers for those controllers so Windows can find your mass storage devices (i.e., hard disks) that are attached to them. If you don't have a SCSI or IDE card in a slot, why are you hitting F6?

By the way, F6 only tells the setup program that it will have to ask for a driver floppy sometime later. It still has to load a ton of drivers to find out what hardware you have. If you notice, lots of drivers get loaded and their status gets checked to see if they found the hardware for which the drivers were developed. It is awhile later before the action of hitting the F6 key actually occurs (by prompting you for the floppy with the drivers).

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[Pete Baker]

"*Vanguard*" wrote in message

Do you have an expansion card that contains its own BIOS, like a SCSI or IDE
controller card? That's when you need to use F6 to load the drivers for
those controllers so Windows can find your mass storage devices (i.e., hard
disks) that are attached to them. If you don't have a SCSI or IDE card in a
slot, why are you hitting F6?

<snip>

The F6 method is also necessary to introduce third-party SATA drivers if the
SATA controller has been included by the manufacturer on the mainboard but
NOT *fully* integrated.

Pete

 

[*Vanguard*]

"Pete Baker" said in news:[email protected]:

The F6 method is also necessary to introduce third-party SATA drivers
if the SATA controller has been included by the manufacturer on the
mainboard but NOT *fully* integrated.

Because that SATA controller has its own BIOS. You'll see it during the load after the POST has completed (well, at least, for the SiI3112 that has RAID support which is then how you get into its config screens).

 

[Pete Baker]

"*Vanguard*" wrote
"Pete Baker" said

The F6 method is also necessary to introduce third-party SATA drivers
if the SATA controller has been included by the manufacturer on the
mainboard but NOT *fully* integrated.

Because that SATA controller has its own BIOS. You'll see it during the

load after the POST has completed (well, at >least, for the SiI3112 that has
RAID support which is then how you get into its config screens).

You're missing the point Vanguard.

You began by asking "If you don't have a SCSI or IDE card in a slot, why are
you hitting F6?"

I was pointing out that is an incomplete scenario.

Pete

 

[steveb]

Vanguard...you are wrong. pete is right, i needed to useF6 during XP setup
in order to load SATA drivers...and it worked!

 

[Pete Baker]

Thanks steveb

I think the point was made.... but it wouldn't be fair to say that Vanguard
was 'wrong'... just that Vanguard's post didn't include all the situations
in which F6 is required.

Pete
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