SP2 fails with SATA drives

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sp2 will fail if you have only sata drives and are not in
legacy mode. Change to this mode lets some boot others
not. Its a bios problem it seems with ata/sata support.
Just a heads up. There will have to be a new build for
this problem. You can not uninstall or recover you must
fresh install.
 
Not true,it installs just fine on a Intel D845PEBT2 board with
only two maxtor hds in a striped configuration,and this was installing
the older xp SP2 Beta version,not the updated one.
 
I never tryed the beta.

Please post you SATA setup.

Do you have ide on board? Are the controllers disabled in
bios?

Booting from your sata drives? Sata contollers in legacy
mode?
 
No problems here.

I have SATA RAID 1 and other SATA / IDE discs and have never had an issue
along those lines. (In fact none at all in the major category).

I know of many many people running similar and larger configurations without
issue.

I suggest you check you bios version, cmos battery, and system for overall
stability.

Or are you just trolling when you say "There will have to be a new build for
this problem."?

Own Systems with SATA and no SP2 issue:
Asus P4C800 x 2
Asus P4P800 x 3
Gigabyte 8KNXP rev 1.0 x 1 (ex RC1, RC2).

- Tim
 
Turn off your ide and just keep the sata in enhanced mode
you will see the problem. I can cause it to fail on more
the one box now. But all shuttle XPC's box's with SATA.
I dont have anything else with sata then shuttle xpc's
here.
 
Your description is not detailed enough to come to any conclusions, but I
would start by checking some basics such as where is your boot drive and
where is your system drive? If your boot drive were SATA and your system
drive were IDE, then I could imagine an issue where the SATA drive becomes
unavailable during SP2 upgrade due to a lack of SATA device driver.

Check in Drive Manager.

- Tim
 
I already installed SP2 (slipstreamed CD) to a PC with a SATA Seagate 80. It
installs and runs just fine.
 
Does it have an IDE drive in the system as well.

Seems that once an IDE drive is even present, then you wont have the
problem.
 
Yes, it does have a DVD-ROM drive from ASUS. Thing is that I also have a SATA
drive and 2 IDE Drives (DVD-ROM and DVD-R) but SP2 doesn't install...
 
Sorry - I meant PATA HD (IDE HDD).

Most motherboards treat the SATA as tertiary drives, so having an IDE
HDD (even not as a boot drive) seems to make a difference as it is still
the 'first' hard drive.

The CD/DVD doesn't make any difference it seems.
 
Prescott cpu?

-----Original Message-----
Yes, it does have a DVD-ROM drive from ASUS. Thing is that I also have a SATA
drive and 2 IDE Drives (DVD-ROM and DVD-R) but SP2 doesn't install...


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Cody said:
sp2 will fail if you have only sata drives and are not in
legacy mode. Change to this mode lets some boot others
not. Its a bios problem it seems with ata/sata support.
Just a heads up. There will have to be a new build for
this problem. You can not uninstall or recover you must
fresh install.
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I have a hunch this is due to a buggy DMA driver for your SATA driver that
is barfing on the new Data Execute Protection (DEP) in XP SP2. XP SP2 turns
on hardware-level Data Execute Protection (DEP) on processors that support
it, e.g., AMD Opteron. As a side effect it must turn on Processor Address
Extensions (PAE). PAE can hose up DMA transfers if the driver violates the
HAL drives and tries to, for example, manipulate the Page Table Entries
(PTEs) directly.

As a workaround try turning off DEP. Edit C:\BOOT.INI and change
"/NoExecute=OptOut" to "/NoExecute=AlwaysOff". This will turn off DEP. You
will need to remove the System + Hidden + Readonly flags:

ATTRIB -S -H -R C:\BOOT.INI
NOTEPAD BOOT.INI (Change to /NoExecute=AlwaysOff)
ATTRIB +S +H +R C:\BOOT.ini

Regards,
Alan Klietz
Algin Technology LLC
alank at algintech dot com
 
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