K8NE boot XP from SATA, is it possible?

[Adam Aglionby]

Paraphrasing post form other group, and have checked archives here but
couldn`t spot anything.

I have just bought a Seagate SATA 200GB hdd and an ASUS K8N-E DELUXE
mobo to go with it. This was part of an entirely new setup, and I
excitedly put everything together and attempted to install WinXP. WinXP
did the first part where it set up the drive you want to install the OS
to and copied the install files to the HDD perfectly without a hitch.
Then it restarted, and when it got to the WinXP boot screen, it just
shuts off. I was like WTF!?!?! and i turned it back on and watched it
do exactly the same thing again. I've tried installing RAID drivers for
it, reformatted tons of times, and it still does the same thing. It
gets to the first WinXP boot screen and just turns off or asks wether
want safe mode then reboots.

Will boot and install to 80gb Seagate IDE, which is dying with click of
death so not long term solution.

As this board is within RMA time any suggestions wether it is possible
to get a K8NE deluxe to boot from SATA with XP pro?

Appreciate any input, seems to be a common problem with no definitive
answers,

Any suggestions for mobo that will boot properley from SATA would be
appreciated as well,

Thanks
Adam

 

[JBM]

Paraphrasing post form other group, and have checked archives here but
couldn`t spot anything.

I have just bought a Seagate SATA 200GB hdd and an ASUS K8N-E DELUXE
mobo to go with it. This was part of an entirely new setup, and I
excitedly put everything together and attempted to install WinXP. WinXP
did the first part where it set up the drive you want to install the OS
to and copied the install files to the HDD perfectly without a hitch.
Then it restarted, and when it got to the WinXP boot screen, it just
shuts off. I was like WTF!?!?! and i turned it back on and watched it
do exactly the same thing again. I've tried installing RAID drivers for
it, reformatted tons of times, and it still does the same thing. It
gets to the first WinXP boot screen and just turns off or asks wether
want safe mode then reboots.

Will boot and install to 80gb Seagate IDE, which is dying with click of
death so not long term solution.

As this board is within RMA time any suggestions wether it is possible
to get a K8NE deluxe to boot from SATA with XP pro?

Appreciate any input, seems to be a common problem with no definitive
answers,

Any suggestions for mobo that will boot properley from SATA would be
appreciated as well,

Thanks
Adam

I have a K8NE Dlx board and am able to boot off a raid array on either the
si3114r or Nvidia SATA controllers.

 

[Adam Aglionby]

I have a K8NE Dlx board and am able to boot off a raid array on either the
si3114r or Nvidia SATA controllers.

Thanks this is running a single drive with raid disbaled, switching to
sli controller dosen`t appera to help either

Thanks
Adam

 

[dino]

do you have any other hard drives plugged in?...have found best way is to
have only the drive or drives if it is in RAID..plugged in and no other
hd's..but if it is shutting down sounds like an issue of something else
almost.Maybe a memory issue??...what are you running?..system specs..

 

[Yeff]

As this board is within RMA time any suggestions wether it is possible
to get a K8NE deluxe to boot from SATA with XP pro?

Try this from:
<http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-22955-K8NE-amp-Installing-SATA-drivers-which-one.html>

Actually, if you aren't going to use RAID. Then you do not even need a
floppy. I have the K8N-E Deluxe, and WindowsXP installed to my WD SATA
drive.

There are 6 SATA connectors on that board, 4 of them are at the bottom
and are intended for RAID. 2 are close to the middle of the board. Plug
the drive into one of those 2 and you can install WindowsXP without
needing to load any SATA drivers. So in otherwords, you DO NOT NEED to
press F6.

 

[Adam Aglionby]

Thanks for the advice guys, current spec is

asus k8n-e deluxe Bios version 10007(?) not listed on asus site jumps
form 06 version with nforce sata detection fixed up to 010 current
beta bios, 07 bios not listed in bios list on asus site

sempron 3000
512mb crucial memory , crucail recommendation for particular board
abit radeon 9250
kworld pci tv tuner
seagate 200gb native sata

plugged into nforce sata 1, sili image sata controller disabled in
bios, raid disabled on nforce

hd detection set to auto

have had booted and running with 80gb (now dead) seagte IDE , XP saw
200gb drive but also had it listed in sys tray as removable drive?

tried with and without F6 on both sata controllers

usual mode of failure is will install windows (haha!) full 40 minute
install, finalises settings etc. When reboots gives `sorry for
incovience meassage` choice of safe mode, safe with command,with
network, normally etc.

any option shows short list of drivers running up screen then reboots
back to same screen.

Getting very lost now.

Thanks

Adam

 

[Adam Aglionby]

forgot cd is NEC 4550 DVD R/W

Thanks

Adam

 

[JBM]

Thanks for the advice guys, current spec is

asus k8n-e deluxe Bios version 10007(?) not listed on asus site jumps
form 06 version with nforce sata detection fixed up to 010 current
beta bios, 07 bios not listed in bios list on asus site

sempron 3000
512mb crucial memory , crucail recommendation for particular board
abit radeon 9250
kworld pci tv tuner
seagate 200gb native sata

plugged into nforce sata 1, sili image sata controller disabled in
bios, raid disabled on nforce

hd detection set to auto

have had booted and running with 80gb (now dead) seagte IDE , XP saw
200gb drive but also had it listed in sys tray as removable drive?

tried with and without F6 on both sata controllers

usual mode of failure is will install windows (haha!) full 40 minute
install, finalises settings etc. When reboots gives `sorry for
incovience meassage` choice of safe mode, safe with command,with
network, normally etc.

any option shows short list of drivers running up screen then reboots
back to same screen.

Getting very lost now.

Thanks

Adam

Try enabling the nforce raid controller then disable raid on each drive.
This is the only way I was able to use it in non raid mode.
Hopefully it will clearer when you get in the bios.

 

[Adam Aglionby]

Try enabling the nforce raid controller then disable raid on each drive.
This is the only way I was able to use it in non raid mode.
Hopefully it will clearer when you get in the bios.

Thankyou JBM

You nailed it.

Updated BIOS, to latest release candidate, didnae fancy trying current
beta, so last stable release 011, no longer listed on asus site 07 was
installed.

Enabled nforce raid controller, left one installed drive enabled in
Nforce bios selection, drive dissapers from main bios screen, it isnt
listed in IDE master/slaves but in boot sequence setting has appeared
as nforce JBOD drive as boot option.

If disable nforce raid in bios, it will appear listed in main cmos
screen as 3rd primary master, nforce sata socket 1, and in the boot
selection by its manufacturers code , in this case ST100something.

It wont boot in this state and will launch the `sorry for the
inconvience page` and reboot.

Enable raid and disable all drives,drive reverts to showing as jbod and
boots like a champ.