Unable to boot on SATA - A7N8X-E Deluxe

[Scott]

I have been trying to set my system up to boot on WD36 SATA drive. I have
installed the OS onto the drive using Drive Image 7, set the the boot device
to SCSI. I keep getting the message that there is no boot device. The Asus
manual and website has no usefull information on this. Does anyone out there
know if there is some trick to get this to work? This is quite aggravating.
I do have a seperate PCI IDE controller installed with three drives
attached. Could this be confusing the motherboard? Any help would be
appreciated.

Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Professional (Win32 x86) 5.01.2600 (Service Pack
1)

IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 3 Communications Port (COM2) OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 5 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 5 NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 9 NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management OK
IRQ 9 Santa Cruz(tm) OK
IRQ 9 ASUS RADEON A9800PRO OK
IRQ 10 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 10 WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller OK
IRQ 11 Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 11 Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 NVIDIA NForce 2(tm) SPP/IGP ATA Controller OK
IRQ 15 NVIDIA NForce 2(tm) SPP/IGP ATA Controller OK

 

[Dave]

I have been trying to set my system up to boot on WD36 SATA drive. I have
installed the OS onto the drive using Drive Image 7, set the the boot device
to SCSI. I keep getting the message that there is no boot device. The Asus
manual and website has no usefull information on this. Does anyone out there
know if there is some trick to get this to work? This is quite aggravating.
I do have a seperate PCI IDE controller installed with three drives
attached. Could this be confusing the motherboard? Any help would be
appreciated.

Microsoft Windows XP/2002 Professional (Win32 x86) 5.01.2600 (Service Pack
1)

IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft Natural PS/2 Keyboard OK
IRQ 3 Communications Port (COM2) OK
IRQ 4 Communications Port (COM1) OK
IRQ 5 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 5 NVIDIA nForce MCP Networking Controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 9 NVIDIA nForce PCI System Management OK
IRQ 9 Santa Cruz(tm) OK
IRQ 9 ASUS RADEON A9800PRO OK
IRQ 10 Standard OpenHCD USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 10 WinXP Promise Ultra133 TX2 (tm) IDE Controller OK
IRQ 11 Standard Enhanced PCI to USB Host Controller OK
IRQ 11 Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Controller OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 NVIDIA NForce 2(tm) SPP/IGP ATA Controller OK
IRQ 15 NVIDIA NForce 2(tm) SPP/IGP ATA Controller OK

Are the SATA drivers installed in XP? XP needs to have these drivers
to boot from SCSI/SATA

Dave

 

[Alec]

I have the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and found I had to copy the SATA drivers off
the cdrom onto a floppy disc and when the machine boots up pressed F6 and
during install it asks for the drivers and goes off to the floppy and loads
them and all is well from then on
Cheers
Alec

 

[dino]

just imaging it over will not work...you never gave XP the SATA drivers so
it will not recognize the drive...as was said ..you need to do a fresh
install ,press F6 when it asks and install the drivers...sorry but clean
install is the only way..unless you use it for a B/U drive

 

[Dave]

just imaging it over will not work...you never gave XP the SATA drivers so
it will not recognize the drive...as was said ..you need to do a fresh
install ,press F6 when it asks and install the drivers...sorry but clean
install is the only way..unless you use it for a B/U drive

Fresh install is not the only way, I used a program called Casper XP
to copy my old IDE hard drive with XP Pro to a SATA RAID Array 1. I
installed the SATA drivers before doing the copy. Booted from SCSI
after copy with old hard drive unattached and everything booted up
fine.

Dave

 

[JBM]

I believe you'll find if you want to boot
from the on board SATA you'll have to
remove the PCI controller card.
It might depend on the controller card,
but I've haven't been able to boot from
the on board SATA when I've tried two
different controllers, both were from promise

Jim Manning

 

[Scott]

Hi Jim,

That's what I did earlier today. Once I removed that PCI ATA card booting
from the SATA worked. BTW, the ATA card I have is also a Promise. Thanks for
the advise!

Scott