- Oct 18, 2004
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Well it seems like there has been a lot of problems installing windows on this mother board. I have read through all the strings I could find, but none of them reflect my problem.
I have been working on installing Windows 2K for about 14 hours, and I am at the end of my rope so I am on my knees begging for help.
Here is my configuration:
ASUS A8n-SLI
AMD Athlon 3500+ 939 pin Winchester
1 gig Corsair 2x512 DDR 3200
2x ASUS NVidia 6600GT
520 Watt 24pin PSU from Vantec
2x 300 Gig SATA Maxtor HDD 7200 RPM with 16 MB Cache
The problem occurs during installation. Here is how I have the BIOS configured:
Boot Order: cdrom, HDD, Floppy
Hardware Configuration: Nvidia Raid enabled, Sata 1 Enabled, Sata 2 Enabled, Silicone Raid (sp?) Disabled
1. I insert the Windows installation Disk.
2. Hit F6 when it asks for raid drivers.
3. When it asks I load the floppy with Raid driver, (there is another file on called NVidia Mass storage controller) I have tried loading that as well, and tried with only loading the raid driver.
4. It continues to load OS system files.
5. Gets to "Windows will now install" I hit enter.
6. Here is where I run into problems. A window pops up that says, "what partition do you want to insall on?" There is a, Unformated C: that says it is 131070 MB partition. I never created a partition on the 600 gig of raid. But perhaps win 2K wont recognize a disk that big so fine. I choose that one and it formats that partition.
7, 30 minutes later it is partitioned and it continues with the install. It once again asks me for the raid floppy, which I put in, and then it loads a few other files and then it says "Take the floppy out of a drive, restarting computer......"
8. When it restarts it says, "A disk read error occrred....Press ctrl alt del to restart."
I have not flashed the bios, but I did reset the CMOS jumper and went through the whole process again. Did not make a difference. I have noticed that in the BIOS the SATA Raid does not show up as recognized unless I disable the SATA 2. Then I get the First Sata Master recognizing the one 300 gig maxtor, but then when I restart I get a RAID ERROR in red.
I am stuck, and any help would be GREAT.
I have been working on installing Windows 2K for about 14 hours, and I am at the end of my rope so I am on my knees begging for help.
Here is my configuration:
ASUS A8n-SLI
AMD Athlon 3500+ 939 pin Winchester
1 gig Corsair 2x512 DDR 3200
2x ASUS NVidia 6600GT
520 Watt 24pin PSU from Vantec
2x 300 Gig SATA Maxtor HDD 7200 RPM with 16 MB Cache
The problem occurs during installation. Here is how I have the BIOS configured:
Boot Order: cdrom, HDD, Floppy
Hardware Configuration: Nvidia Raid enabled, Sata 1 Enabled, Sata 2 Enabled, Silicone Raid (sp?) Disabled
1. I insert the Windows installation Disk.
2. Hit F6 when it asks for raid drivers.
3. When it asks I load the floppy with Raid driver, (there is another file on called NVidia Mass storage controller) I have tried loading that as well, and tried with only loading the raid driver.
4. It continues to load OS system files.
5. Gets to "Windows will now install" I hit enter.
6. Here is where I run into problems. A window pops up that says, "what partition do you want to insall on?" There is a, Unformated C: that says it is 131070 MB partition. I never created a partition on the 600 gig of raid. But perhaps win 2K wont recognize a disk that big so fine. I choose that one and it formats that partition.
7, 30 minutes later it is partitioned and it continues with the install. It once again asks me for the raid floppy, which I put in, and then it loads a few other files and then it says "Take the floppy out of a drive, restarting computer......"
8. When it restarts it says, "A disk read error occrred....Press ctrl alt del to restart."
I have not flashed the bios, but I did reset the CMOS jumper and went through the whole process again. Did not make a difference. I have noticed that in the BIOS the SATA Raid does not show up as recognized unless I disable the SATA 2. Then I get the First Sata Master recognizing the one 300 gig maxtor, but then when I restart I get a RAID ERROR in red.
I am stuck, and any help would be GREAT.