DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D problem with SATA

[daddsmcnads]

The specs on this computer are:
AMD Athlon 64 3200+
512mb DDR 333 PC2700
DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D mobo
EVGA 7800 GT 256mb
430W Thermaltake PSU
160gb Seagate Barracuda HDD
40gb IDE slave HDD
Windows XP Professional

I recently bought all these parts to put together a new pc. At first I had trouble setting up more then one stick of ram, and I finally figured out that the board just hated that brand, or I am too dumb to set the timings correct. So now I am stuck with 512mb ram instead of 1GB dual channel which worked fine on my last board. Everything formatted fine, but it showed the drive as 130gb hard drive instead of 160, which I found odd. After it formatted and rebooted, it then went through the whole partition setup again, and it wouldn't enter the windows install. I restarted, and tried again this time with hard drive as first boot device in the bios, and this time it said "NTLDR not found". So obviously my SATA drive isn't set up properly, in the bios. I have no idea how to configure it either. There is no way I can set a SATA drive as a boot device, like my last mobo let me. If it formats and everything, it obviously detects it, so what is going on?

 

[Mem]

you need to hit F6 when windows xp is installing near the beginning you will see when,then you install the SATA drivers via floppy drive,as to HD formatted size this is due to no service pack installed.

Easiest thing to do is download Autostreamer and SP2 then make a WinXP SP2 CD,that way you won't need to install any SATA driver and also fix your HD limit size ,go here on how to do it,pretty easy and works great.