SATA HDD & Windows XP. - Ajarn Forum

El Tel · 25th January 2005, 10:17

Just done a major upgrade for my pc.

Athlon 2.8
Seagate 120 Gb SATA 7200 HDD
Asus A7V880 Mobo
1G 400 Ram
Nvidia GeForce 5900

The main problem I had was that the SATA HDD is not recognised by fornicating Windows XP. Can you bloody believe it?
I had to copy the SATA drivers from the mobo cd to a bloody floppy (A floppy Microsoft? Come on, it's 2005 for fornicates sakes) and F6 install on Windows set-up.

Once done , the SATA disk is very fast.
XP took only 15 minutes to install!

Now, upon installing the drivers for my soundcard, the pc freezes leading to a reset and then wont boot up again.

I get the

'Start Windows in Safe Mode'
'Start Using Previous Good Configuration'
'Start Windows Normally'

screen that just opens again on restart regardless of which option I choose.

Reformat I guess!!

Goddamn Microsoft are a bunch of fornicated-up floopy-disk using nerds.

Anyone else had this problem?

If you're upgrading to a SATA HDD, take note.

Night_Rider · 25th January 2005, 13:51

I had the same experience with the SATA hard drive. You do have to load the drivers during XP installation but no problems with the sound card. Did you download the latest drivers from the motherboard manufacturer's web site?

mrsquirrel · 25th January 2005, 15:57

What is SATA

marko · 25th January 2005, 21:09

I hope this isn't too obvious but often times the obvious answers the problem. I'm just thinking that you might double check the cable connections under the hood. (I have been caught out loads of times like this!)

Next... take a look in your BIOS settings and under advanced you should be able to see the motherboard settings for the drives. Make sure that the board is set to use 'ENHANCED' settings and not 'LEGACY', then go to the BOOT section and make sure the SATA drive is the first drive, followed by the CDRom then the Floppy. Find the setting for Plug and Play operating system elswhere in the BIOS and make sure this is set to NO.

Can you boot up now?

Keep us posted...

Added after 3 minutes:

Copied word for word from a help forum...

Quote:

First of all you need to know that with the SATA installation there is not such configurations for master and slave or primary and secondary it just you need to choose from the boot section in your motherboard bios setup page boot from SATA or SCSI and you set it as secondary boot and your first boot is your CD drive with your SATA controller drivers in a floppy disk and a bootable windows XP CD in your CD drive, boot your machine and at the first and second boot windows will ask you if you have to install a 3rd party drivers from your floppy disk press f6 in the second screen and window will search your floppy drive for the drivers and you will not identify any think in the earliest but after the booting finish windows will ask you to conform the using of your SATA controller drivers and after will detect your HDD.
You can find the latest SATA controller drivers on asus web site you just need to search using your motherboard model number on asus web site or you have them already on your motherboard support CD (don't forget to enable SATA controller in the advanced bios setup page). RADE configuration will not work with single SATA HDD you will need to connect two HDD's with similar sizes

El Tel · 27th January 2005, 08:10

Yeah, got all that.

Finally reinstalled Windows and guess what?

Marko was right.

An obvious answer was part of the problem.
The freeze was caused by the soundcard. Not so much a cable connection as a PCI connection.
The card was correctly placed into the port but the card screw holes and the case holes were out of alignment.
So when I screwed it in, it caused the card to slightly come out of its port.

Couldn't tell visually but could feel slight movement.
Also, the Creative Soundblaster 'Live' cards do have some 'issues' with Asus mobo's.
After a lot of fiddling around in the Bios (in a similar area to Marko's advice. You know your computers mate!) the Soundcard was finally recognised by XP though only after getting through quite a few dodgy XP disks from Pantip, I might add.

Fornicating Microsoft, Asus and Seagate!
Start making your products compatible, please.

Ona positive note. The system is ultra fast now. Scan disk took about 30 seconds!! :smile:

El Tel · 28th January 2005, 08:24

A quick update.

The Creative Soundblaster 'Live' drivers do have compatibility problems with Windows XP.
http://dmzweb4.europe.creative.com:80/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBCGI.EXE/,/?St=711,E=0000000000044658294,K=3110,Sxi=0,Kb=ww_e nglish,VARSET=ws:http://asia.creative.com:80,Case=obj(5805)

I'm not sure whether my version is SP1 or 2 but it appears that I'm not alone in having this kind of problem.
http://forums.creative.com/creativel...essage.id=8723

Does anyone (marko?) know if installing Service Pack 2 would help with audio driver compatibility problems?