Installing XP on KV8 & serial HD..please help

[steve]

Hi,
I am trying to install Windows XP on a WD serial hard drive
connected to a KV8 MB. The problem I am having is that I don't know
where to get the correct files for Windows after pressing F6.
I tried copying driver files from the Asus CD that came with the
motherboard for both the VIA controller and the Promise controller but
received the following errors "file winxp\viaraid.sys caused an
unexpected error (18) at line 2108 in
d:xpsp1\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c." I get the same message for the
Promise drivers except it starts out xp\ulsata.sys....
I have tried searching the Asus website and the Western Digital web
site with no luck. On Asus I can not find anything that pertains to
the KV8 and on WD they refer me to the manufactors site.
Everything appears in the BIOS and I have run out of things to try.
Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks...Steve

 

[Paul]

Hi,
I am trying to install Windows XP on a WD serial hard drive
connected to a KV8 MB. The problem I am having is that I don't know
where to get the correct files for Windows after pressing F6.
I tried copying driver files from the Asus CD that came with the
motherboard for both the VIA controller and the Promise controller but
received the following errors "file winxp\viaraid.sys caused an
unexpected error (18) at line 2108 in
d:xpsp1\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c." I get the same message for the
Promise drivers except it starts out xp\ulsata.sys....
I have tried searching the Asus website and the Western Digital web
site with no luck. On Asus I can not find anything that pertains to
the KV8 and on WD they refer me to the manufactors site.
Everything appears in the BIOS and I have run out of things to try.
Any help you could give me would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks...Steve

Are you looking for the K8V ?

http://www.asus.com.cn/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=K8V Deluxe&Type=Latest

then click drivers.

If you want a recent driver, for the SATA on the 8237, maybe this
procedure will work. This would apply if your disk drive was connected
to the SATA port on the 8237:

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=310

It says when you power up, to press <tab> to enter the RAID setup option
in the BIOS. If you have one drive, I think you can set that up as a
standalone drive if you want (at least you can do that with other RAID
products). I don't know what happens if you add a
second SATA drive - the RAID setup in the BIOS could insist on
configuring the two devices as a striped or mirrored pair, or could
let the second drive be stand alone as well. If you unzip the download
from that page, you'll find files like VIASRAID.INF and associated files,
which would presumably make Windows happy when you press F6 during the
Windows install.

ftp://downloads.viaarena.com/drivers/RAID/VIA_VT6420VT8237_SerialATA_V220d.zip
(6.3MB - works with VT8237 Southbridge SATA or a VT6420 SATA chip -
has drivers and even some kind of Windows level RAID tool)

If you connect the SATA drive to the Promise SATA header, by the looks
of the drivers Asus offers, you could either run the drive standalone via
the ATA driver or under RAID control via the RAID driver respectively -

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20378/378ata_100104528.zip
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/misc/ide/pdc20378/378raid_100137.zip

If you unzip "378ata_100104528.zip", there is a UlSata.inf file in there
which might be useful when installing Windows. Before you even get that
far, you should enter the BIOS and set "Onboard Promise Controller"
[Enabled] and "Operating Mode" [Onboard IDE Operate Mode]. Save the
changes and exit the BIOS and when the board reboots and starts reading
the Windows CD, point Windows to the UlSata.inf and associated files
you've copied onto the floppy.

Thats what I get from the manual:

ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/mb/sock754/k8v/e1421b_k8v_deluxe.pdf

HTH,
Paul

 

[Zeneca]

The CD that came in the box has drivers good enought to start any
installation.
What you need is to identify where have you plug the SATA Hd's.
The mobo has two "circuits" : SATA from VIA and also SATA from PROMISE.
Those SATA-VIA are market as SATA-1; SATA-2 while the others from PROMISE
are marked as SEC_SATA and PRI_SATA.
Once you know where have you plug them, take the CD and a disquette as well
and go to another PC to prepare a driver disc.
The process is simple, the CD contains different folders for the drivers VIA
and PROMISE.
On the root of these folder is an ulitity called somthing like MAKE DISK.
Launch the utility and this way you'll get the proper driver disk for the
installation.

Now, back to start the installation from the beginning and be ready to press
F6 when required.
Some minutes latter, after the installation of the basic files, the system
will ask you yo press S to confirm you want to use other drivers for SCSI or
RAID.
After pressing S, the system will read on the disquette , and the choose
from there accordning you OS.

Good luck and BR.

 

[steve]

The CD that came in the box has drivers good enought to start any
installation.
What you need is to identify where have you plug the SATA Hd's.
The mobo has two "circuits" : SATA from VIA and also SATA from PROMISE.
Those SATA-VIA are market as SATA-1; SATA-2 while the others from PROMISE
are marked as SEC_SATA and PRI_SATA.
Once you know where have you plug them, take the CD and a disquette as well
and go to another PC to prepare a driver disc.
The process is simple, the CD contains different folders for the drivers VIA
and PROMISE.
On the root of these folder is an ulitity called somthing like MAKE DISK.
Launch the utility and this way you'll get the proper driver disk for the
installation.

Now, back to start the installation from the beginning and be ready to press
F6 when required.
Some minutes latter, after the installation of the basic files, the system
will ask you yo press S to confirm you want to use other drivers for SCSI or
RAID.
After pressing S, the system will read on the disquette , and the choose
from there accordning you OS.

Good luck and BR.

Thank you for all the help. The part I was missing was the make disk
utility. I was just copying the drivers on to a floppy disk. I am
now up and running and appear very stable so far (and fast). Thanks
again...Steve