Author Topic: SATA and XP Problems (Read 147495 times)

Guest_Stu · « **Reply #80 on:** February 16, 2004, 06:41:42 AM »

Anyone tried: Slipstreaming the drivers into a custom XP_64 CD? drivers in the $oem$\Textmode directory, Settings in the Unattend.txt [Massstoragedrivers] and [OEMBootFiles] sections yet?
I would be interested to know if this is a problem on XP_64 or W2K3_64. Its a solution I use a lot for 3rd party Raid cards on unattended installs in W2K server.

Guest · « **Reply #81 on:** February 18, 2004, 01:27:24 AM »

Yes you may, but if you want to run the OS off of SATA (highly suggested) You need to reinstall windows (making sure you press F Lock and install drivers, I have the same keyboard stupid thing

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happy if it works · « **Reply #82 on:** February 23, 2004, 05:12:09 PM »

thanks

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Guest · « **Reply #83 on:** February 24, 2004, 06:04:23 AM »

I have an ASUS SK8V mobo and have had real problems installing my new SATA hard drive.
I reverted to installing my old IDE drive and installed windows that way and it works fine. I can even find and use my SATA hard drive in windows but it still can't find it in XP setup. I have tried to install the drivers by pressing F6 but still no drive detected. Can any one help?
Also does anyone know the exact bios settings i need for this mobo with a single sata hard drive?

V123 · « **Reply #84 on:** February 26, 2004, 02:10:42 AM »

Thanks to everybody for tips (about updating drivers) regarding Asus A7v600 and SATA problems, my system is now again operational - although I am not quite sure that everything is OK.

However I would like to ask another question. Before reading this forum I suspected that HD drive is the problem. So I took it to one of my friends to see what migh be the problem and noticed following. Formatting the disk took much much longer on his system.

After installing the new drivers, my system still formats the disk extremly fast. 10GB takes just about 10sec. At my friend tjis toulk at least 20 or more times longer => I am still suspicious about the drivers and wheter everything will be OK after some time.

BTW my firend operates Pentium4 and generally his system outperforms mine (AMD Athlon 1600...) in every other regard.

Risking to look stupid - seems that I am complaining about my Seagate Barracuda 80GB SATA being to fast. Is this normal, 10GB taking only 10 sec to format on Win 2000 (normal formatting and not quick formatt)?

Thanks.

Guest · « **Reply #85 on:** February 28, 2004, 05:05:57 PM »

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SATA DRIVER

Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Driver Installation Disk

Go to this page: http://www.siliconimage.com

Write in the product search & support : Silicon Image SiI 3112 SATARaid Driver

press the download, then drivers, then SIi3x12, then SiI3x12: Serial ATA (SATA) Windows RAID Driver - Released

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Guest · « **Reply #86 on:** March 04, 2004, 07:08:12 AM »

when u hit f6 ...it did work u just didnt see it yet. also be sure to set 2 and 3 boot device to scsi.

Guest · « **Reply #87 on:** March 04, 2004, 04:45:13 PM »

Im having real trouble finding the drivers to install windows xp on a brand new pc, built today

I have a Asus A7V600-x mobo (with an AMD 2500+ xp)

and an 80g maxtor SATA HDD, i can 'see' the Sata drive as i can try and make a RAID array if i want (no use to me of course cos i have only got 1 HDD)

i think i have all my bios settings right it is just the part about installing the additional scsi drivers when setting up xp i am having problems with. I have tried using any and all the files of the mobo support cd but this is useless and i think only any good after i have an OS installed?

the Asus site has no drivers for this mobo that i can find!

help?

fuba · « **Reply #88 on:** March 05, 2004, 02:34:08 AM »

Look here for A7V600 SATA

Guest · « **Reply #89 on:** March 07, 2004, 11:47:57 PM »

Well, I hate to say this, but yes I have installed XP on a fresh PC, from scratch. It was a pain, but from what I see above, I guess I was lucky. I put the txtsetup.oem on a floppy and installed that b4 the XP install. However, I'm trying to install 64-bit XP on the SATA drive, and now, I'm getting all of the above probems.
Clueless!!

Guest · « **Reply #90 on:** March 14, 2004, 02:08:07 AM »

Well, lots of nasty stuff happened here, mostly corrupt files. To late for me to explain what I've been up to for the last few days, so I link you to the forum I started in.

http://www.nforcershq.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=43744

Hope some of it can help. The 1.0.0.28 driver can be found here
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.mcclay/

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/michael.mccla...con_v100281.zip

Nizzy · « **Reply #91 on:** March 15, 2004, 08:07:04 AM »

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Hugo · « **Reply #92 on:** March 16, 2004, 06:57:58 AM »

I have been experiencing a lot of problems too...

I was able to install XP Pro with my old AMD Athlon XP 2000+ in a single 120GB S-ATA from Seagate (after purchasing a new mobo ASUS A7N8X Deluxe and a dual channel 1GB of RAM from Kingston PC-400MHz). I used the s-ata drivers from asus cd and nforce 3.13 drivers, including ata nforce sw drivers, and everything was fine.
Recently I bought the an AMD Athlon XP 3200+ and the problems started, the same windows xp pro regularly crashes with different blue screens!!! First I thought it was over heating (and it also was) so I bought a Coolermaster Aero 7+, as it didn't completely solve the problem I thought it was from windows xp (the new CPU has a different front side bus and it required an upgrade after installation that crashed...).
I bought 2*160GB S-ATA HDDs from Seagate and built a RAID 0, stripped with a chunk set manually to 32KB. First installation was ok until it ended with a crash. Several other crashes followed.
I reinstalled Windows XP Pro (fresh) and now I'm using the latest silicone image drivers ver 10.0.0.40 (I first tried the 11.0.0.52 but this version doesn't recognize the raid, only the separate S-ata HDDs) and so far so good. I haven't decided if I'll use nforce ATA sw drivers but now it's formatting 2 partitions without a single crash yet.

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe/Gold-UAY AMD Athlon XP 3200+ 1GB dual channel Kingston PC-400MHz 2*160GB S-ATA Seagate ST-3160023AS RAID 0 Chunk 32 Creative TI 4200 64MB Sony DRU500-AX Pioneer A05 Cooler Master Aero 7+ Pinnacle Digital 8

TetraPike · « **Reply #93 on:** March 19, 2004, 03:06:33 AM »

[quote name=\'Phyfer\' date=\'Feb 14 2004, 03:25 AM\']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[/quote]
Here is another thread that describes the solution a bit differently. I am not saying anyone is wrong here, God knows I have spent the last 36 hours trying to solve this damn problem. . . - 4 hours to sleep . . .

http://www.hardcoreware.net/forum/printthr...07&page=2&pp=20

Guest · « **Reply #94 on:** March 22, 2004, 04:49:43 AM »

my kit ..vapochill xe ,a7n8x-e (bios v 1008),ati 9700 pro ,1 gig pc 3200, 2x120 maxtor sata set up as raid 0 striped. xp 3000 , antec tru blu 450w psu, xp pro.
same probs as you guys, tho i`ve had some sucess.installed the si3112 drivers @ f6 and managed to format the drives (set up as striped)s then windows installed ok, but after setting bios to detect scsi... nothing....mass storage not detected...the usual.but when i reconnect my ide drive i can see the sata drives my computer and i can save data to them.windows is installed but fails to boot thr scsi.as far as i can work out ther seems to be a comm. problem between sata and scsi being recognised.any upto date info most welcome.....

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Guest · « **Reply #95 on:** March 23, 2004, 07:28:37 PM »

i have an entirely different mobo (gigabyte ga8ipe1000L revision 2) and when i cold boot, my sata hdd isn't recognized. also, in bios, first boot device is set to hdd, as for some reason i can't select scsi. this is really really frustrating. plz help, thnx

Guest · « **Reply #96 on:** March 24, 2004, 09:18:44 PM »

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YIPEE.......PROBLEM SOLVED......I E-MAILED ASUS WITH THE SATA PROBLEM AN` THEY REPLIED SENDING ME A ZIP FILE WITH THE LATEST SATA DRIVERS....AND THEY WORK FINE.GOT THE VAPO-CHILL SYSTEM AND MY 2X 120 GIG MAXTOR RAID 0 (STRIPED) WORK FINE.BOOT INTO WINDOWS 5 SECS !!! WOW. ALL I NEED TO KNOW NOW IS HOW TO POST THE ZIP FILE FOR PEOPLE TO DOWNLOAD

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Guest_peter · « **Reply #97 on:** March 26, 2004, 04:44:47 AM »

EVERYBODY HAVING TROUBLE INSTALLING A FRESH COPY OF XP ONTO A BRAND NEW COMPUTER NEEDS TO DO THIS:

Go to the Mobo manufacturer website.
Find the SATA raid controller for their mobo. (in my case it was a vt8237 on the south bridge)
I downloaded the driver file for SATA for my mobo.
Then I READ the README.TXT file in the driver zip file.
It told me that I needed to copy certain folders and files from the driver zip i just downloaded onto a floppy disk.
I copied those files and folders to the floppy.
THEN I went back to my new computer with my floppy in my hot little hand and restarted computer making sure that it booted from CD-ROM before any HDD so that XP which was in the CD drive, would be loaded.
After it says press any key to boot from CD or otherwise, just wait, and when the very first blue screen of the XP installation program appears, HIT F6 ASAP!
Then you have to wait a little for it to load some files and other stuff into RAM and then it comes to a screen asking if you want to install a SCSI drive or other mass media device or something like that. YOU NEED TO PRESS "S" to continue. It then asks for you to put that freshly made floppy into the floppy drive and hit ENTER. DO AS IT SAYS!
It should then ask what controller you want to use, mine was the first one on the list and yours may be too. Anyways, the mobo manufacturer website should have given you enough info to know what one you want. ONLY SELECT A SATA thingy though!

Now it'll read from your little floppy down near the floor, well mine hangs down tot he floor anyways...hehehe....no pun intended...sorry....please don't censor me... it's a harmless joke honest...

Anyways, it'll work hopefully, otherwise, your best bet would be to contact the mobo manufacturer, but as we a usuially an impatient bunch, look on the net, or go back tot he mobo website and look for more help and FAQs to help you....thanks!

This website forum thing helped and I'mr etuirning the favour I HOPE!

Guest_Prophet · « **Reply #98 on:** March 26, 2004, 06:15:15 AM »

SK8V SATA Harddrive Answer:

Just built a new box using a ASUS SK8V Motherboard and a Seagate 160GB SATA Harddrive as my only hard disk. Only IDE device is the DVDrom.

Here is how I successfully got Windows XP to see the SATA harddrive and install on it.

1. Go to ASUS download page http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/it...K8V&Type=Latest

2. Download the "Promise SATA378 Driver" and "VIA VT6420 (VT8237) SATA RAID Driver"
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/se...528.zip~zaqwedc
http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/se...10a.zip~zaqwedc

3. Copy both drivers onto seperate 3.5" floppy disks.

4. Boot off of the Windows XP CDrom. Press F6 when it says "Install drivers for additional storage arrays" (should be just as Windows XP installer starts.

5. Press "S" for specify driver and insert the first of your driver floppies. And follow the prompts to install the driver.

6. Press "S" again and insert the second driver floppy.

7. After both drivers are installed into Windows XP setup, press Enter to continue with XP install. It should then see the harddrive and ask you if you'd like to partision it.

Hope that helps guys.

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Trond Nordbotten · « **Reply #99 on:** March 26, 2004, 04:33:00 PM »

If those "#¤#"% fileservers where online i would have my computer set now.
ANyone have another file link for the asus sata drivers??

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