ASUS A8V Deluxe

[rdk67]

I have the above MB and I'm running RAID zero on the Promise RAID controller. I bought a 250 Gig Western Digital drive. I'm trying to install it on the VIA controller and it will not work. I'm trying to install Windows 2003 server on the new drive. I have pressed F6 during boot and tried every driver on the MB cd. After the first restart while installing the OS I get an error saying the computer has stopped the installation to keep from damaging your computer.

 

[mechBgon]

The VIA controller doesn't like single drives, it wants to play the RAID game. Can I suggest using a PATA drive, or else get a cheap PCI SATA card to host the 250GB WD?

If your RAID0 were on the VIA controller, then you could switch the Promise SATA controller to pure ATA non-RAID mode in the BIOS under, what is it, Onboard Peripheral Device or something. And then it could host single drives as such. There is a specific Makedisk.exe utility on your A8V Deluxe CD-ROM for making a diskette with the ATA-mode Promise drivers.