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i believe he was referring for me to reset CMOS.

Under the device manager under ports, Com1, Com2 are ok. Yet there are Com3, and Com4 with the yellow sign indicating problem. What are these for and how can I disable them completely? I tried to uninstall them by right clicking them, but when windows starts, they install themselves again.

I finally did it and just in case anyone cares or someone needs the info later. I used the VIA for the SATA and the IDE2 I put both ATA drives there, one as master and one slave, just make sure the SATA VIA is the one that boots first! Thanks everyone!

I put them in the secondary PATA and only one shows up. Maybe they dont have to be slaves???

Well once again thanks for all your help guys! Finally got the SATA raptor working just right. Now, I have 2 spare regualr ATA drives that I want to connect as slaves. How do I go about doing that, and what jumper settings do the drives need?(Slave both I assume right) And both connected to the...

Woohoo! I remember what it was. The freakin CD drive gave me this error. I used the other drive and it worked, im glad I remembered. Now to install all mobo drivers and XP updates etc. One thing I noticed is that when I shut down windows, i get a "It is now ok to shut down your computer", and I...

Ok i got home and wrote down the error i get when windows is gonna install after the reboot. Error Instalation Failed:D\1386\asms The Parameter is incorrect Fatal Error One of the components that windows needs to continue setup could not be installed. The parameter is incorrect. This happened to...

Well thanks for you help, you guys are the best!! Well I finally tried those 7MB drivers and found the VIA SATA you were talking about. I put them in a disk and lord and nehold, windows finally saw it. Thank you. No when It reboots to continue the setup i get thisfatal error i remember I got...

Thanks for response. Ok, i want to use that file u said but its 7 megs, that wont fit on a floppy to install at F6 ?? I am not installing it as a slave to current setup, i unplugged my ATA drive and use my bros PC to come here and check what to do. Now, if I connect it on the Promise...

Come on guys, someone please help me=( I have tried every combination possible and it wont work on either the promise or VIA connections. I am running out of ideas and setting changes.

I need help please I have read every post and tried what I could find and no success. Heres my problem(others had similar) Just bought a 74GB Raptor SATA drive. Connected the Power cable and red cable that mobo comes with and connected it to the VIA controller(the top one on moboSATA1) I enabled...

Man, that guide seems sooooo confusing, i got lost after i hit encrypt folder. Is there a easier way to do it?

I just built a new PC and backed uo my files on the slave drive I had on old PC. Now when I installed it on this new PC also as a slave , all folders are access denied?? WHY?? How can I open them? God I had so much important stuf there. I tried right clicking and see if i can enable something...

Regs, abou the HD noise when booting and switching the IDE , so to make sure, you saif you have the ones where the HD;s are supposed to go in the optical, and the opticals where the HD are supposed to go right? If i do that now is it safe, or is that before windows install?