SATA and XP Problems

[MegaTesla]

Here's my story:

I upgraded to GigaByte GA-7N400 Pro2 mb with SIL 3512A controller and MAXTOR 80GB hdd. I tried to do a fresh XP install nearly 20/30 times, trying different XP Setup CD's, BIOS options and different SIL drivers.

Here are some of the situations I encountered:
1) Didn't detect SATA.
2) Detected SATA but system hung at the select partition page.
3) unexpected error 1024 at line 1742 of d:\.....\oemdisk.c

After some time I realised that error 3) didn't occur so much if I added another ATA hdd. The problem then was that I couldn't get the system to see my SATA as c:\. The IDE drive no matter what was always detected as c:\.

So I removed the IDE drive and fooled around a bit more.

In the end, SUCCESS.

This is probably not the only working solution, but it worked for me:

XP SETUP CD: Spesific one, only one XP Setup CD worked (didn't hung at select partition page)

BIOS: CD-ROM = Primary slave
Floppy = a:\
Boot seq: 1- CDROM, 2- Floppy, 3- SCSI
Hardware SATA enabled
SATA as BASE
RAID disabled.    (Enable RAID to make sure SATA disk is Primary Master and then disable again)

FLOPPY DISK:
SI3112.INF (2003/02/12)
SI3112.MPD (2003/02/07)
SI3112.SYS (2003/02/07)
SIISUPP.VXD (2003/03/26)
SILSUPP.CPL (2003/01/23)
SIWINACC.SYS (2003/02/12)
TXTSETUP.OEM (2003/01/27)


I hope this might help someone. I don't know how to find out what version or build the Setup CD was, so if someone wants to email me with info:
[email protected]

cheers
MT
Stellenbosch - South Africa

[SpongeDave]

For everyone that is having problems loading Sata drivers on an ASUS Mobo for a single disk, and getting the d:\.....\oemdisk.c errors, the problem is you are not copying the full folder structure from the CD to the diskette. You cannot just copy the list of files, since the INF file is looking for a complete directory structure, so if on the CD you have this layout........
SATA  (Folder)
      VIA (Folder)
          WinXP (folder)
              File1
              File2
              File3....
          Win2K (folder)...
          file.inf        
          file.oem
You MUST copy Winxp (folder) and files, Win2K (folder and files), file.inf, file.oem,  to the diskette. Copy ALL folders under VIA, but not VIA itself.

Also I had success on my ASUS SK8V board with a single Sata drive by using the VIA KT8237 drivers. Take note of what BIOS is running for the raid controller (you should be able to TAB into the controller BIOS during boot to see it) and match the drivers to the controller being used.

[Corne Vorster]

Hi

I just Bought a Intel Bonanza 875p board with giga ethernet and onboard serial ata controller , I then added a 80 gb 7200 rpm 8MB cache HD.

Setup goes great. But ever time I power down the system for more than an hour and I boot up , windows comes up but hangs for  5 to 15 min , and after waiting for this amount of time it resumed perfectly , normal .... any ideas why , I've seen some error in the event viewer indicating failures... what to do.

using xp pro
thanks
corne

[Guest]

Once I figured out that I had not plugged the power into my A: drive instead of just the cable it read the drivers from the disk after F6.

[killing me softly]

I was on of the many that were getting that damm error with a fresh install and it coming back complaing about the oem file line blah blah issue.  I think someone on page 3 clued me in on my mistake.
i got the new drivers to work and this is how I did it.

I had had other failed attempts with the original driver that came with my system. I had gotten far enought thru the install that it had formatted my HD with ntfs parttions. this casued the problem.

once I took a win 98 boot disk and ran fdisk and deleted the ntfs partion and then make a little fat32 partition then I rebooted into the win 98 again and ran format.  I then rebooted during that format.  well I then ran the xp setup f6 and this time the new driver came up.. then the install asked me to format the drive cause it had an incomplete format and I made a NTFS partition and viola... it all worked. I hope this helps the rest of ya out.

[sandeep]

i have: -
athlon 3ghz CPU
asus a7n8x-e-dx rev 2 M/BOARD
512mb RAM
segate 160GB sata HDD

I did a clean install of windows xp on the new drive using drivers from the asus motherboard cd, which they did not supply onto a floppy disk. (wankers)!
this went well until thurs 8th april.
i updated my motherboard bios to c18e1010.
My computer rebooted after the procedure which was successfully completed.
During boot up i only see a quick glimpse of winxp logo, which is followed by a blue error message which i cant read. tried hitting pause/break but no luck.
installed winxp on a old fujitsu 5gb drive and can access the segate drive through there in my computer provided the drivers are loaded.
Ran sea tools on the drive completed with no errors.
Still have the same problem.
Can any one please please please help me.
thanks!

[the don 808]

i have an Asus a7n8x rev2.0 mobo it did have an old 20gb in it which i was running xp off it. but it was taking too long to boot and i was running out of space so wanted to upgrade so i bought a maxtor 120gb sata drive. i was a bit worried about installing it. but i just copied these files from the asus drivers disk on to a floppy:

si3112r.inf
si3112r.mpd
si3112r.sys
siisupp.vxd
txtsetup.oem

when installing xp just hit F6 when asked put floppy in drive press enter etc (just follow the instructions) then xp installs fine boots fine. i havnt installed any thing else yet but it seems fast compared to my old 20gb 66ata  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Contrapaulus213]

Hi, Guest, I understand your pain! I am using an ASUS A7N8XE Deluxe board, virgin-fresh install of XP Pro (+SP1) and an SATA Seagate 80G HDD. Needless to say, it took a while to get it up-and-running; I was up and frustrated until the wee hours of the morning.  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

What I had to do was this:

Create a nice pretty partition, basically readying the drive for XP, by using the DiscWizard utility available online from Seagate.

And then (and you'll love this) use a win98 floppy bootdisk w/CD-ROM support (you can easily create one in win98), so that I could copy the necessary files from the ASUS motherboard CD (copy *.* to a: from the \SATA directory (or subdirectory? I forget).

Then, re-start, load the XP setup prog like normal, and press F6 at the appropriate time. Now, this part is a bit confusing and oddly-integrated on MS's behalf, in my opinion: although you successfully hit the F6 key at the right time, the setup screen does nothing to let you know that it has accepted your input. Instead, it continues merrily ahead, loading files, and only when it gets to the appropriate spot in the pre-install, will it ask for you to supply an additional drivers by hitting 'S'.

At that point, direct it to your floppy disk w/the copied SATA files from the ASUS CD. Obviously, that floppy should be a different disk from the previous-mentioned win98 boot disk. And, while this sounds trite, remember not to insert the SATA-info disk until asked.  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':lol:\' /> How many times I've made this simple error, I can't begin to count!   http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

If you can't get a win98 boot floppy, any bootable recent MS OS-disk should do, as long as it supports CD-ROM (you'll be reading from the ASUS CD), and file transfer.

You may have to re-install your RAID controller after windows XP is installed. Go figure. You figure that XP would have built-in support for SATA, but not even the presence of the SP1 before install helps.  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'<_<\' />

Let me know if this solves your problem, or points you in the right direction.

-Contrapaulus213

ASUS A7N8XE Deluxe
AMD Athlon XP 2500+ "Barton" 333FSB
Corsair PC2700 RAM 512 Mb
Sapphire ATI Radeon 9600 Pro
XP Pro (+SP1)
Seagate Barracuda 7200 RPM 80GB SATA HDD/8Mb cache

Everything else is just as common-fare, Antec case, fans, Logitech mouse/keyboard, etc...

As of right now I still have zero (0) games installed on this machine! Wow, the XP desktop is soooo entertaining! Yes, I'd say that's worth $1000+  http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':unsure:\' />

Prospects:
Half-Life, Half-Life2
Quake3, Q3 Team Arena
SOF, SOFII
Black and White 1 & 2
Diablo II
etc.... any suggestions? Don't say HALO!

[Guest]

Some very nice tips here, but I still have a stupid question http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/unsure.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':unsure:\' /> :

My Mainboard: MSI MS-6570 K7N2 Delta-ILSR, nForce2 Ultra 400 (dual PC3200 DDR)
My HDD: Samsung SpinPoint P80 160 GB Serial-ATA (SP1614C)

The Bios doesn't detect my new Sata Hdd.


Does somebody know exactly what files (XP drivers and so on) the Floppy has to contain. I quite desperate, have built up a new PC, but it simply doesn't recognize the Sata HDD. Thanks for your help

[Guest]

Make sure in the bios settings, under integrated peripherals, that your SATA chipsets are enabled.  If so, boot your winxp installation and press F6 for additional SCSI adapters.  Later during the boot up process it will prompt you to press 'S' to specify your SATA drivers.  Follow the on-screen instructions from there.

[trem0lo]

I'm trying to install a fresh XP Pro installation on a SATA Maxtor 80 gig drive and experiencing similar problems.  I have an an older ASUS motherboard but am using a Silicon Image SATA controller card.  I do the F6 driver disk stuff during XP setup and it works fine.  The problem is that XP setup doesn't like to format my drive and will say that it cannot.  If I go back into windows and use Seagate Discwizard to format an 80 gig NTFS partition it works fine, and win XP will recognize it.  I also formatted it using FAT32 and XP will also recognize that, except I'm experiencing THESE difficulties....

After XP copies the files to the new HD and reboots for the first time, I get a blank screen.  The new HD reads files for about a second then just hangs.  No error messages, nothing.  I have everything set in my BIOS to boot from a SCSI device but it doesn't seem to want to.

Any suggestions?

[Guest]

Thanks guest, but there is no such setting as far than I can see under the intergrated peripherals.

I did install the  additional adaptors with F6, but i couldn`t install it XP on my new hardware SATA drive but only on my old IDE one...

The Bios simply refuses to detect the SATA drive, do I have than to manually tip in all the info (cylinder and so on) http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ph34r.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':ph34r:\' />

Could somebody tell my what exactly are this "XP drivers for SATA" which I have to install first on the drive before actually installing the adaptors of MSI http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/huh.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\':huh:\' />

Thanks

[Ugo]

TAken from official si site:
SiI3112A: nForce Data Corruption
Data corruption problems can occur with nForce-based motherboards such as the Asus A7N8X when multiple hard drives are attached to the SATA controller. This problem is related to an issue with the PCI controller in the nVidia chipset and can be fixed with a system BIOS update.

For the latest BIOS updates for your nForce motherboard that fixes the data corruption problem, please visit the website of your motherboard maker for the appropriate BIOS and flash utilities. Silicon Image cannot provide the solution to this issue since it involves a change to the system BIOS settings on the motherboard. There were no revisions made to the drivers for the SiI3112A so you may use the latest version posted on this website. Please check the Related Articles link on the lower right.

Links to a few motherboard download sites are below:

Asus

Abit

Leadtek

[James]

Hi All,

Wondering if someone might be able to help, im having the same or similar problems to the ones mentioned above.

Im using a Gigabyte 7N-400Pro2 Motherboard, with a Western Digital 120G SATA HDD. Trying to install a fresh copy of Windows XP. I have downloaded the latest drivers from the gigabyte website. I have copied the files from the 'Si3112' directory into the root directory of a floppy. I boot from Windows XP CD, press f6 at the prompt, press 's' when asked then insert the floppy. I then get the d:\....\ error on line (1024) that others are experiencing.

Can anyone help with this issue?

Many thanks,
James.

[Neila]

I've looked on here and seems theres a lot of problems with SATA and XP...oh well. I just built my tower with a friend from the ground up:
ASUS SK8V mb
AMD 64 2.4ghz
2x Maxtor 160GB SATAs (only have 1 connected during install)
2x Sony DVD RW's
1024mb Corsair (2x 512mb ECC reg'd sticks)

When ever I start up the bios recognizes the HDDs, but when it goes to install XP it just goes to the blue "Windows Setup" window and hangs.  I spoke with ASUS, they said its a memory configuration problem, or a Voltage problem or an overheat problem.  But the RAM is installed as per corsairs specs, there is No overheat and my power supply is more than adequate.  Please help me guys lol i just spent ALL my money on this and right now its just a REALLY heavy paperweight.  My email is [email protected] if you can help, and I REALLY appreciate anything you guys give me.

[david]

is there anyway to get the drivers from the cd , since i dont have a floppy drive.
installing sata drives on to windows xp . mobo asus sk8v se deluxe

[Guest_tom]

anyway of doing it without a floppy with a fresh install?  afterall - whats a floppy drive today?!  lol

[zegg]

it has been two days i had this new computer with si3112A raid controller and i am really tired of trying solutions.but if you want to overcome F6- cant copy problem- first install win98 and then from 98 start xp install.there is some difference between xp cdboot and the way you install it from a windows.(you can also install xp from an installed xp if you have one-which means you dont have to install it from win98)
and also you can either use fat32 or ntfs for the new xp install.
you have to use sataraid or satalink driver from the siliconimage website.But be sure that changing the driver you used in F6 when installing xp is very hard especially if your new system will be on the sata disk.You probably will have to reinstall xp for that.so decide which to use before installing xp.i use one disk and tried SataRaid drivers.W,th those drivers, after installing xp,  i sometimes got bluescreen errors especially while using the drive for hardpurposes such as opening 6 films from harddisk at the same time or while just playing games-i think there is also some problem with agp.so i decided to use SataLink drivers and reinstall xp-(i use just one disk so if i understood the difference between SataRaid and SataLink right and clear, sataraid was already a wrong choise) they seem to be more stable but after xp install, as in the SataRaid drivers, you have to install them again to install RAID CONTROLLER device to XP from MYCOMPUTER-PROPERTIES-HARDWARE-DEVICE LISTING-RAID CONTROLLER.there comes another problem with SataLink drivers-->they seem to be incopatible driver for the hardware for xp and if you insist on installing those, xp reboots itself while opening.you use Last good configuration.if you install SataRaid drivers to xp at this moment(NOT F6 stage), you have two device files for the same hardware-si3112.sys and si3112r.sys which causes xp to open very slowly after reboot which i couldnt wait to see what happens after xp  loaded...
so i use SataLink Drivers with an question mark in device listing but it has a driver in fact(si3112.sys) loaded at system boot.disabling it(or the orther si3112r.sys if you have installed xp with that) from the recovery console also results in a repeative reboot while loading xp.

interesting thing is that even i use one disk, windows update or "search driver from  internet" find SataRAID drivers as the appropriate one while refusing SataLink drivers as i told above.

does anyone have any ideas?

i am also a bit confused about SataLink and Sataraid?which one to use ? -->or does it only depend on the hardware(mobo, controller..) you have even you use only one disk which is impossible to raid..
sorry for my english if it is weird http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

can the bluescreen problem be AMD with AGP or directx or something like that??
i have AMD Athlon XP
epox RDA3+
160GB Seagate 7200

[email protected]

[zegg]

i have said that SataLink drivers were more stable(i have one disk) than SataRaid drivers but i was wrong.same bluescreen came again as in SataRaid.they are all buggy with xp.

RE:Ugo
>Quote:TAken from official si site:
>SiI3112A: nForce Data Corruption
>Data corruption problems can occur with nForce-based motherboards such as the >Asus A7N8X when multiple hard drives are attached to the SATA controller. This >problem is related to an issue with the PCI controller in the nVidia chipset and >can be fixed with a system BIOS update

i have only one disk not even another ide.only one sata disk.

[samantha]

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