SATA and XP Problems

[Guest]

[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Jan 26 2004, 07:41 PM\']Gordon,

Sounds like your power supply might be overloaded or defective[/quote]
 Yes thought that too but works ok with 2 other disks installed so should work ok with only the serial installed.

Going to try using a serial ata pci card and see if it bots then if that's ok will try a new power supply.

Will advise.

[Guest]

[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Jan 27 2004, 09:22 AM\'][quote name=\'Matthew\' date=\'Dec 26 2003, 03:16 PM\']
Thanks for the help...installing windows onto this A7N8X with a Hitachi DeskStar for more than 2 days straight.[/quote]
I get the same unexpected errror 1024 at line 1742 of... Is there a solution to this problem?

Considering my problems installing windows xp on a SATA drive and reading all the problems mentioned on this forum, it seems that the technology is not yet fit for the real world.

Has anybody successfully installed windows XP on a SATA drive in a "fresh installation attempt".

If yes, how?[/quote]
I set up an WD 120 Gig SATA drive last night on one of my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboards, and attempted a fresh install of WinXP Pro. Eerything worked well for me, I used the F6 option and installed the SATA Drivers I downloaded off the WD web site. So far so good, right?  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':huh:\' /> Let's consider it a 90% success...

The problem that I have not yet figured out is this. Everything works well using a default installation, except for the usual Nforce2 stuff (i.e. NIC's, sound drivers, etc.) Seems like there is a SATA RAID under the Device manager too, but I only have the one drive installed. I loaded up the ASUS Driver CD and loaded up the default install option. Then I loaded the SATA driver option from the CD as well. When I went to reboot, it came back around to the WinXP splash screen, loaded, and loaded, and stalled. I tried this about three times before I used safe mode, and what happened? It stalled AGAIN, even in Safe mode.

After the second re-install, I decided to get the updated SATA drivers from the Windows update site. Same thing happened using them as well. I reverted to the "Last known good startup", which took me back to teh original WD drivers, and its been there ever since. ANyone got any ideas WHY the newer drivers won't work at all? This is kind of got me stumped, but this is also the first experience I have with SATA drives too, so I'm open to any and all suggestions.

Thanks in advance.... http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':rolleyes:\' />

[Guest]

[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Jan 29 2004, 01:09 PM\'][quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Jan 27 2004, 09:22 AM\'][quote name=\'Matthew\' date=\'Dec 26 2003, 03:16 PM\']
Thanks for the help...installing windows onto this A7N8X with a Hitachi DeskStar for more than 2 days straight.[/quote]
I get the same unexpected errror 1024 at line 1742 of... Is there a solution to this problem?

Considering my problems installing windows xp on a SATA drive and reading all the problems mentioned on this forum, it seems that the technology is not yet fit for the real world.

Has anybody successfully installed windows XP on a SATA drive in a "fresh installation attempt".

If yes, how?[/quote]
I set up an WD 120 Gig SATA drive last night on one of my ASUS A7N8X Deluxe motherboards, and attempted a fresh install of WinXP Pro. Eerything worked well for me, I used the F6 option and installed the SATA Drivers I downloaded off the WD web site. So far so good, right?  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':huh:\' /> Let's consider it a 90% success...

The problem that I have not yet figured out is this. Everything works well using a default installation, except for the usual Nforce2 stuff (i.e. NIC's, sound drivers, etc.) Seems like there is a SATA RAID under the Device manager too, but I only have the one drive installed. I loaded up the ASUS Driver CD and loaded up the default install option. Then I loaded the SATA driver option from the CD as well. When I went to reboot, it came back around to the WinXP splash screen, loaded, and loaded, and stalled. I tried this about three times before I used safe mode, and what happened? It stalled AGAIN, even in Safe mode.

After the second re-install, I decided to get the updated SATA drivers from the Windows update site. Same thing happened using them as well. I reverted to the "Last known good startup", which took me back to teh original WD drivers, and its been there ever since. ANyone got any ideas WHY the newer drivers won't work at all? This is kind of got me stumped, but this is also the first experience I have with SATA drives too, so I'm open to any and all suggestions.

Thanks in advance.... http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':rolleyes:\' /> [/quote]
 I experienced the exact same symptoms as you:

I have a Maxtor U150 SATA 160GB disk. I installed XP without a problem, F6 option added driver with floppy, no problem. As soon as I installed the updated driver from Micrsoft, sllooowwww, wouldnt boot up at all.  Reverted to last good know startup, tried to install the same driver I used duing installation, from the floppy, same thing happened.

A solution to this would make me a very happy camper.  Maybe there needs to be a RAID array for the driver to function properly.

Jon

[kayiboy]

Look at this page!

http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/index.asp?c=...d=2&r=0.1840937

There, it is explained how to make the one "Silicon Image Sil 3x12 Installlation Disk" .. http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Guest]

[quote name=\'kayiboy\' date=\'Feb 4 2004, 09:08 AM\']Look at this page!

http://12.24.47.40/display/2n/index.asp?c=...d=2&r=0.1840937

There, it is explained how to make the one "Silicon Image Sil 3x12 Installlation Disk" .. http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />[/quote]
 When I click that link, it takes me to a *Session Timeout* page, and displays nothing at all.

[Bobstains]

I've also managed a fresh install of XP on a SATA drive. The problem I have is that in device manager the "mass storage device" isn't loaded. When I load the SI3112 drivers it hangs on the boot screen like the previous person said. I don't have a solution I might e-mail Silicon Image and see what they say.

[Guest]

[quote name=\'MeXuS^\' date=\'Sep 11 2003, 03:52 PM\']Guys help me.
I just made my new PC:
AMD Opteron
Asus SK8N
Maxtor 160GM SATA
Driver stuff with the F6 but the installation doesn't find the drive!!
P.S BIOS is set!

PLS help me!!![/quote]
 I have a same HDD of u. My PC:
Giga 8IK1100
P4-C2.4
P.S Bios set
and the same problem with F6 when install WinXP
how can I solve it?
help I 've bought it for 2 months and now I can't use it for win
hichic

[Simon143]

I have an Asus A7N8X Deluxe with the Sil 3112 SATA chipset. I've been using a 120GB Seagate Barracuda 7200.7 for ages with no problems. Recently bought a 160GB drive in the same series, and it causes read/write errors when transfering large amounts of data. Looked on the Silicon Image site (thanks CHEWBAC) and in the zip file containing the newest drivers (link below), there's a word doc, with the following line at the botton, in a section called "Known Restrictions":

"Certain Seagate models need the “mod15” patches during DMA write."

I can't find any references to this anywhere else on the siimage or any other site, and the fact that the doc itself has "For Silicon Image Internal Use Only" all over it hardly inspires confidence.

Anyone else in a similar situation?

Thanks in advance

http://12.24.47.40/display/2/kb/article.asp?aid=10469

[Guest]

I have problem with sata drives too. I have seagate SATA 160 GB, and I managed to fresh install windows xp, but when i install other programs like quick time it hangs about 90% of installation and when i reboot PC it hangs up. I can only work in safe mode. Got any solution for this,

THANX

[Simon143]

Did you use the newest drivers (from the page linked to earlier) when you did the clean install?

I find I have problems with the old drivers such as corruption and complete failure of NTFS volumes on the drive, but with the newer ones, all I have had so far is a couple of directory name reading errors, which clear up with a reboot. I haven't tried anything other than data storage with it though.

Fingers crossed that's the end of the serious problems. I'll keep you posted.

[Guest]

I just bought a computer a couple days ago I have an Asus K8V deluxe with a Maxtor SATA 200G. The store said they would build it for free so i let them do it since im not to knowledgable in the installing parts department. I get the error where it says i got no hard drive, so i press f6 the screen comes up. But I didn't buy a floppy disk drive which i probably will now. I had another person help me and i got the driver i need. I Burnt it on a rewritable cd and that didnt work. Any solutions would be a big help.

[ousk]

What do you think about this? (motherboard a7n8x-e)
 
Done what you have said ... and win xp copied all files to hd (segate) Then when win xp tells you to boot first time my bios does not recognice the sata hd and the installation can not continue ... sigh ... think it it something with the bios, scsi choice that it does not like... sigh .. what to do?

greetnings

[Simon143]

You'll probably need to set the 1st 2nd and 3rd boot devices to Disabled in the BIOS, and then enable Boot Other Device (or something like that) it will then look to the SATA controller for a boot drive.

Hope this helps

[Ron Kiefel]

[quote name=\'Guest_jack\' date=\'Jan 20 2004, 10:30 PM\']I seem to have the same problem as other people. but I haven't seen the answer.

I have an Asus SK8V motherboard with SATA onboard.

and I installed a Western Digital SATA WD2000 drive.  The only ide devices I have are a DVD on one and CD-Rom on the other (both masters)

I configured the hard drive initially with the Western Digital Program prior to installing Windows XP Professional.

When I load Windows XP, it asks for the drives, I press F6 and found the SATA driver on the Asus support disk,

but then XP says that "the hard drive is not detected"

Anyone have the answer to this?

Thanks a lot.

Jack[/quote]
 Any solution yet? I'm having the same problem. http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mad.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':angry:\' />

[vonerich]

Hello everyone, I think I have found an answer to everyones problem. I have been working on an Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe mobo with a maxtor 80 gig sata HD. I've been having the same problems as everyone else here and finally got it working  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />.   HERE's WHAT YOU DO... go to Asus website, enter mobo model number (A7N8X-E) in the search box, in the box under that, click on drivers.  Download the file silicon_v10033.zip. Open this zip and copy:

Si3112r.inf
TxtSetup.oem
Si3112r.sys
SIWinAcc.sys

(all 4 of the above files) to a floppy disk. Change the boot sequence in your bios too:

1st  cd
2nd  floppy
3rd  SCSI

then start windows XP install, press F6 when it asks for large storage device drivers. When it asks you to install the drivers you have to push the "S" key then insert the disk you just made and hit enter.  Bada Bing it worked perfect for me and hope it works for everyone else too. Took a long time to figure it out and would like to thank everyone in this forum for helping me out too.  Let the Games Begin.

[vonerich]

Forgot to mention in my last post. When you copy the 4 files to a disk, a folder is created. I had to extract the files to the root of the floppy drive ( A: ) and then delete the folder in order for windows xp to see these 4 files. (Note: each time you copy a file and paste it to the floppy drive, a folder is created. So you will have to delete these folders 4 different times.

[Sthenley macedo]

Guys, the problem is the M$:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=314859
(...)
Note that if you choose to format the partition in the NTFS file system during setup, you cannot copy the newer OEM driver into the System32\Drivers folder after text-mode setup finishes. This is because the Windows Setup program formats the partition as NTFS before copying files. You can work around this limitation by installing Windows into a file allocation table (FAT) partition that is less than 2 GB in size or into a FAT32 partition that is less than 32 GB in size. Doing this allows access by using a startup disk from Microsoft Windows 98 or Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (Me). After Windows is installed, use the following command to convert the FAT or FAT32 partition to NTFS:
convert c: /fs:ntfs
(...)

   So, use FAT32 as a unique partition, instead of NTFS. Or use the M$ "solution". Otherwise, make a unattended install CD. <http://www.mcse.ms/message349957.html>

[Alessandro Nogueira]

[quote name=\'Guest\' date=\'Jan 27 2004, 09:22 AM\'][quote name=\'Matthew\' date=\'Dec 26 2003, 03:16 PM\']Hey, I'm still getting some funky errors. When I'm trying to install the drivers, I get the Messaget that the txtsetup.oem is causing can unexpected error 1024 at line 1742 of d:\xpsp1a\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c. Does this mean that the disk that microsoft provided me is corrupt?

I tried that rdvr way, downloading the drivers, using the CD ASUS sent with...the GUI version and teh SATA directory versions and none of them work.

Thanks for the help...installing windows onto this A7N8X with a Hitachi DeskStar for more than 2 days straight.[/quote]
I get the same unexpected errror 1024 at line 1742 of... Is there a solution to this problem?

Considering my problems installing windows xp on a SATA drive and reading all the problems mentioned on this forum, it seems that the technology is not yet fit for the real world.

Has anybody successfully installed windows XP on a SATA drive in a "fresh installation attempt".

If yes, how? [/quote]
  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':unsure:\' />

Im having the same [censored]in problem with the same configuration.. its the second time i have this problem!!! the first i have to format, now i cant lose my files

unexpected error 1024

and more... i have a lot of tons of gigabytes and when i install my IDE disk to recover my files to format my sata disk, my win XP didnt show my sata disk, anyone cold help me please???

Is there a way to put my pc working with the sytem at the IDE disk and the SATA working like a second disk?

Thanks for any attention http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Phyfer]

I just got here by accident, looking for the differences between the SIL3112a driver and SIL 3512 driver and i started to read some posts and noticed lotsa problems with very little fixes. I wasnt able to read through them all, so here is some quick checks.

If your only installing 1 SATA drive:
1. Make sure your Bios is set up so that the SATA is on BASE function, NOT RAID
2. When putting the SIL drivers onto a diskette DONT use the ones with an r at the end. (found on the CD for your mother board)
3. Make sure in your boot sequence that you have the SATA drive in there somewhere and make sure its base.

If your raiding:
1. same as above except make it be RAID
2. Use the drivers with the R at the end. (R=RAID)
3. same, in raid mode

If this helps good, if not sorry, and you can e-mail me at
giglowjeffEmail Removed

[Guest_Bruce]

I had this problem with an Abit NF7S with Abit IDE to SATA converter. Finally gave up & installed Win XP Pro using IDE. Part of problem turned out to be non-working f6 key on too fancy a keyboard (needed an F lock pushed - new keyboard, didn't notice) Question: Now that I'm installed the OS on IDE, can I re-install the converter & go back to SATA?