K8N-E Questions HDD-SATA

[curtis.mike]

Greetings, all.

I have the subject motherboard and have an issue and a question.

Issue: Occasionally, upon a cold start, the computer will just stop the
booting process. It will do this with Windows XP both SP1 and SP2
(slipstreamed during installation). Pressing the reset button and a few
tries later, or selecting a different partition with remedy this. Both NTFS
and FAT32. But has anyone experienced a similar problem and identified the
issue?

Question: What is the effect of enabling 32-bit transfers for a Maxtor SATA
150
250 GB HDD that I have installed on this AMD 64 system? Other,
than of course, its 32 bits...

TIA

System Specifications:
Windows XP SP1 and XP2
1GB 3200 (tested 24 hours Prime 95 no errors)
250GB SATA HDD Maxtor
Asus K8NE AMD 64 3200+ 1 MB L2 cache with most current BIOS (1004) and all
drivers, not overclocked
(nVidia firewall not installed)
ATI 9600XT
mouse/keyboard/floppy/display
Antec case with 350W PSU

 

[rotor]

Greetings, all.

I have the subject motherboard and have an issue and a question.

Issue: Occasionally, upon a cold start, the computer will just stop the
booting process. It will do this with Windows XP both SP1 and SP2
(slipstreamed during installation). Pressing the reset button and a few
tries later, or selecting a different partition with remedy this. Both NTFS
and FAT32. But has anyone experienced a similar problem and identified the
issue?

Question: What is the effect of enabling 32-bit transfers for a Maxtor SATA
150
250 GB HDD that I have installed on this AMD 64 system? Other,
than of course, its 32 bits...

TIA

System Specifications:
Windows XP SP1 and XP2
1GB 3200 (tested 24 hours Prime 95 no errors)
250GB SATA HDD Maxtor
Asus K8NE AMD 64 3200+ 1 MB L2 cache with most current BIOS (1004) and all
drivers, not overclocked
(nVidia firewall not installed)
ATI 9600XT
mouse/keyboard/floppy/display
Antec case with 350W PSU

I had the very same problem with this board and my prob was that I was running a secondary Ide drive in Sata 2 with one of those Converters that plug into the Hd and change it into a Sata Drive.

Machine suffered the same symptoms as you describe.
Because The device worked on my Gygabyte Board, I never thought that
it would be incompatible with the Asus board and so tried all manner
of settings to get a decent boot up to no avail.
As soon as I unpluuged the converter, Machine sprang into life and has
been a dream ever since..
Look toward a Sata setting in bios Better still Beg or borrow another
HD to test if your drive is OK.
Asus do suggest to make a floppy up with sata drivers from system
disk, And Boot from there.Pressing F6 upon xp install and going that
way. Maybe this will solve your issue, Never Know!

Rotor:-

 

[curtis.mike]

Thanks for confirming I was not alone. I am connecting directly to the
nVidia SATA Channel 1 with the Maxtor SATA drive. The version 1004 BIOS
notes on the Asus web site refer to a patch to nVidia SATA detection, but I
suppose there must be more room for improvement ;-)

ACK! I guess I will buy a regular PATA drive and use the SATA for data
storage....

Mike

running a secondary Ide drive in Sata 2 with one of those Converters that
plug into the Hd and change it into a Sata Drive.