please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Guest]

hello,
i'm extremely stuck (hence the subject title) and i require any help from
experts, or even better, people who know about the ABIT mobo SG-80. i am
going to do a fresh install on XP with new hardware in my PC.

Right,
i have a ABIT SG-80
i have an intel Celeron D 3.0Ghz processor
512MB RAM
150GB samsung SATA HDD
ATI Sapphire raedeon 128MB
CD/DVD drive

All the hardware is brand new apart from the Graphics card, power supply and
floppy disk drive.

i have purchased all the new hardware from www.microdirect.com, including a
brand new Home XP edition installation disk. Through lot's of research and
reading helpful threads on other websites i have noticed i will need to
install the RAID drivers through a bootable RAID floppy on an F6 option
during the installation.

I understand all this but there is one big problem, i have located the
correct drivers for the RAID installation (they are in a file with the same
number as my SIS chip thing). The problem is that through the search on the
disk i got with the motherboard, i could not come across a "createdisk.exe"
or a utility. Even through looking throughout the disk myself and my father
could not locate the utility.

Without this utility is it still possible to install the RAID drivers for my
SATA HDD in the XP home setup?

thanks for any help,
Richard

 

[Patrick Keenan]

hello,
i'm extremely stuck (hence the subject title) and i require any help from
experts, or even better, people who know about the ABIT mobo SG-80. i am
going to do a fresh install on XP with new hardware in my PC.

Right,
i have a ABIT SG-80
i have an intel Celeron D 3.0Ghz processor
512MB RAM
150GB samsung SATA HDD
ATI Sapphire raedeon 128MB
CD/DVD drive

All the hardware is brand new apart from the Graphics card, power supply and
floppy disk drive.

i have purchased all the new hardware from www.microdirect.com, including a
brand new Home XP edition installation disk. Through lot's of research and
reading helpful threads on other websites i have noticed i will need to
install the RAID drivers through a bootable RAID floppy on an F6 option
during the installation.

I understand all this but there is one big problem, i have located the
correct drivers for the RAID installation (they are in a file with the same
number as my SIS chip thing). The problem is that through the search on the
disk i got with the motherboard, i could not come across a "createdisk.exe"
or a utility. Even through looking throughout the disk myself and my father
could not locate the utility.

Without this utility is it still possible to install the RAID drivers for my
SATA HDD in the XP home setup?

thanks for any help,
Richard

You list your system as having *one* hard disk. It seems to me that most
RAID systems have *multiple* disks (hence the A for Array) so I'm not sure
I understand why you are attempting to configure one disk as RAID.

This link for your board has "SiS RAID Installation Disk":
http://www.abit-usa.com/products/mb/drivers.php?categories=1&model=269

HTH
-pk

 

[Guest]

If i am understanding you correctly, i should be able to not press F6 during
Home XP setup and it should all load properly or do i still need to create
SATA/RAID driver floppy disk for the F6, if so i already stated i can't
create 1.

if i don't need to create 1 then thanks for your help!

thanks,
Richard

 

[LS \(V\)]

You should have aquired a 1.44 Floppy Disk with the motherboard.
The Floppy has the SATA Drivers on it. If you didn' get the disk, you can go
to the Manufacturers web site and download the file to make the drivers
floppy.
Sometimes the Windows XP install will load generic drivers and sometimes
it won't.
Did you try to go ahead with the install?

 

[Patrick Keenan]

If i am understanding you correctly, i should be able to not press F6 during
Home XP setup and it should all load properly or do i still need to create
SATA/RAID driver floppy disk for the F6, if so i already stated i can't
create 1.

if i don't need to create 1 then thanks for your help!

If you are not actually trying to create a RAID array, you most likely do
not need to add any extra drivers to simply install to a SATA drive. A
simple SATA drive should not need any drivers.

Try not pressing F6 but simply continuing.

Note, however, that some motherboards require a specific setting when both
SATA and PATA drives are used (the PATA will be your CD/DVD drives). This
setting allows XP to detect the presence of the drive. If you get into
the XP setup but XP can't locate the SATA hard disk, go back to the
motherboard manual and find the BIOS setting.

HTH
-pk

 

[AJR]

Confused - let me ask a question - did your "confusion" come about in this
manner? - you were installing XP and
a screen pop-up stated to use F6 to load drivers. If so, this is a routine
setup process - proceed with setup.

 

[Guest]

hi, thanks for all your posts, right i am going to try to skip the F6 setup
for RAID drivers to see if setup will locate the HDD, if it doesn't my mobo
came with a disk not a floppy. the disk has SATA drivers on it (which infact
are titled 'RAID', stupid).

to create a bootable floppy with the right drivers on the disk, i have heard
you need to use a facility called makedisk.exe or something, i can't locate
that so i'l just pray it'l work without F6.

once again thanks to you all,
Richard

 

[Patrick Keenan]

hi, thanks for all your posts, right i am going to try to skip the F6 setup
for RAID drivers to see if setup will locate the HDD, if it doesn't my mobo
came with a disk not a floppy. the disk has SATA drivers on it (which infact
are titled 'RAID', stupid).

Yes, they are for RAID arrays built of two or more SATA disks.

to create a bootable floppy with the right drivers on the disk, i have heard
you need to use a facility called makedisk.exe or something, i can't locate
that so i'l just pray it'l work without F6.

If you aren't creating a RAID array you should need no drivers for SATA
drives. Ignore the F6 message and continue.

HTH
-pk