SATA / Win XP install issues

[Bluenose 637]

Hi all,

I just finished building my new rig. Asus P5K Premium MD, 4 gig Crucial DDR
800, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, Nvidia GTS 8800, 2 WD Caviar Sata 2 HDD, Sata
DVD rom, Sata RW DVD.

Everything will POST fine. The bios (latest) sees everything correctly. When
I try to install win xp I have issues. Since I have the SATA drives I have
a floppy loaded with the RAID drivers (Jmicron JMB363) so that is ready to
go. Hit the F6 and things work fine until the format. The first few times I
did this the quick format worked and then XP hung while copying files. Now
it will quick format but after it hits 100% it says that it could not format
the disc. Same issue for both drives (only see 131g on the either drive, one
is 350 and other is 250).

I'm at a loss here. This is my 5th machine I have built and the first time I
have had a show stopper. Would Vista 32 see the SATA drives and work fine or
would I still have to do the floppy.

Any help would be great.

 

[Michael Hawes]

Hi all,

I just finished building my new rig. Asus P5K Premium MD, 4 gig Crucial
DDR 800, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, Nvidia GTS 8800, 2 WD Caviar Sata 2 HDD,
Sata DVD rom, Sata RW DVD.

Everything will POST fine. The bios (latest) sees everything correctly.
When I try to install win xp I have issues. Since I have the SATA drives
I have a floppy loaded with the RAID drivers (Jmicron JMB363) so that is
ready to go. Hit the F6 and things work fine until the format. The first
few times I did this the quick format worked and then XP hung while
copying files. Now it will quick format but after it hits 100% it says
that it could not format the disc. Same issue for both drives (only see
131g on the either drive, one is 350 and other is 250).

I'm at a loss here. This is my 5th machine I have built and the first time
I have had a show stopper. Would Vista 32 see the SATA drives and work
fine or would I still have to do the floppy.

Any help would be great.

Run Memtest86 to test memory. Run manufacturer's diagnostic on hard
drive. What PSU, make/model? You need a good quality 420W PSU at least. (Not
a $50 piece of cr*p)

Mike.

 

[Bluenose 637]

Thanks,

I have the Anatec Phantom 500w. Seems to work great.

I tested the hard drives in another computer and they work great. I was able
to install Vista on the drive in a seperate computer so vista disc is fine
(now Im stuck with boot messages though. I need to figure out how to get rid
of those.)

 

[Bob M]

Hi all,

I just finished building my new rig. Asus P5K Premium MD, 4 gig Crucial DDR
800, Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, Nvidia GTS 8800, 2 WD Caviar Sata 2 HDD, Sata
DVD rom, Sata RW DVD.

Everything will POST fine. The bios (latest) sees everything correctly. When
I try to install win xp I have issues. Since I have the SATA drives I have
a floppy loaded with the RAID drivers (Jmicron JMB363) so that is ready to
go. Hit the F6 and things work fine until the format. The first few times I
did this the quick format worked and then XP hung while copying files. Now
it will quick format but after it hits 100% it says that it could not format
the disc. Same issue for both drives (only see 131g on the either drive, one
is 350 and other is 250).

I'm at a loss here. This is my 5th machine I have built and the first time I
have had a show stopper. Would Vista 32 see the SATA drives and work fine or
would I still have to do the floppy.

Any help would be great.

I ran into this same problem with my Opteron 170 overclocked to 2.7ghz
and Epox EP-9U1697GLI board using a 320g Maxtor Sata HD. I had to go
into the BIOS and set the HD to "emulated pata". Then during Windows XP
install when you hit F6 to load Sata drivers I had to load Sata only and
not Sata/Raid drivers. With my Epox board there are 2 different sets of
Sata drivers. With and without raid. Since I'm not using raid, I had to
load Sata drivers only. After that I had no problem installing Win Xp SP2.

Bob

 

[johns]

Been a while since I ranted about this on the group, but
I suspect you have an IDE drive on the first IDE port. That
will be the default C: drive, and your SATA install will
be flakey like you see. You can't put anything in the
first IDE port on the mobo if you also use SATA.

johns

 

[student]

Been a while since I ranted about this on the group, but
I suspect you have an IDE drive on the first IDE port. That
will be the default C: drive, and your SATA install will
be flakey like you see. You can't put anything in the
first IDE port on the mobo if you also use SATA.

johns

Not necessarily so. If the IDE is munged up, & cannot be really be booted
either by windows or linux, then an install onto the SATA drive can have
the C: drive on the SATA & the 1st partition of the IDE will be the
D: drive.

Experience this last week after a mb, cpu, video install. You are
correct, in a way, but a "workaround" was my using partition magic
to resize the IDE partitions to what I wanted as my final partitioning
for the IDE while still leaving everything on the drive without deleting
as I needed to copy alot of stuff.

The install into the SATA went well with the SATA as my C: & the 1st
partition of the IDE as D:; think that the repartitioning of the IDE
did something or other. May be interesting to see what would happen
if the IDE was resized then resized back to the original to see if
the SATA install will be C:; for someone starting from scratch again....