Do you need to have an IDE hard drive?

[LED]

Before you do that have you made sure to plug in the 12v square plug from the PSU to the Mobo and/or even attempted to install a new BIOS?

 

[ribbon13]

Windows setup doesn't see that hard drives? You need the SATA driver disk!

In the bios set it so the cd-rom tries to boot before 'SCSI' or 'SATA'. In a lot of BIOS, SATA is considered SCSI.

 

[ribbon13]

BTW the SATA drivers are for the SATA controller, and have nothing to do with the SATA hard drive!

 

[ribbon13]

http://usa.asus.com/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=A8V%20Deluxe

try there.

 

[imported_Phil]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Windows setup doesn't see that hard drives? You need the SATA driver disk!

In the bios set it so the cd-rom tries to boot before 'SCSI' or 'SATA'. In a lot of BIOS, SATA is considered SCSI.

Read it again, he's not even at Windows Setup yet.

 

[ribbon13]

ok. downloaded the manual for your motherboard...
in your bios make sure the OnChip SATA boot rom is enabled, the promise opertaing mode is set to RAID not IDE.
make sure the first boot device is the cdrom.
You should be able to boot your windows install cd now.
when it says press F6 at the bottom of the screen, do so, and it will ask for the SATA driver diskette

 

[ribbon13]

then when it reboots, change the first boot device to the SATA drive.

 

[Accipiter22]

alright I'm going to give that a shot ribbon, I think that's the way I initially had it, but it tried to automatically overclock and it failed, so I turned off the overclocking, and the Raid driver, cause i only have one HD, maybe i was supposed to leave Promise on...

 

[Accipiter22]

ok, so i tried that, didn't work at all, same exact error, I copied down what I get:

the screen says '2003 promise technology....

"scanning for IDE drives....."

and then it says

"No drive attached to fast track controller. Bios not installed"

then it kicks me to a black screen with the following writing:

"reboot and select proper boot devide, or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key'"

if I have a diskette that's bootable, I can get it to read it, but that doesn't do me much good since windows XP is on a cd rom......I'm really out of ideas guys



oh, and under boot order, there's 3 options: cd rom, floppy, and then 'VIA 6420 1st HDD' as the last one...I'm assuming that's my HD...but I'm not sure if it's supposed to say that...sounds like a RAID name, but I only have the one SATA HD....

 

[Accipiter22]

p.s. shouldn't the SATA drivers already be installed the first time I boot up? the only ones on ASUS's page are for RAID, and again, I'm using a single HD....so I don't know which one I'd even use..

 

[ribbon13]

the Promise RAID is your SATA controller. Is it disabled in the bios?

Bios -> advanced -> onboard devices config ->onboard promise controller -> enabled
opertaing mode : raid

Is the cdrom the master on the primary IDE channel and detected properly in the bios?
The sata drive is hooked up properly? SATA cable and power?

The first boot device should be the cd-rom
and the xp cd should be in it.

 

[Accipiter22]

you may be on to something there....the cd rom is the master on the secondary IDE channel.....let me switch its' position on the MOBO....the other stuff, yeah that's all fine, the only thing that's wrong is that my cD is on the secondary IDe channel

 

[Accipiter22]

alright....changed everything...here it goes...wish me luck

 

[Accipiter22]

NOPE. same f*cking error message. what the hell is the 'fast-track controller' anyway, it keeps telling me there's no drive attached to the fast track controller....what does that even mean??

 

[ribbon13]

It means the SATA controller and SATA hard drive are communicating properly.
Do you have another SATA cable you could try?

 

[Accipiter22]

yah i have like 8 actually, ASUS gave me a ton of em, i'll try that now .....it says no IDE drives found though, I guess i'll try another cable

cause the system says 'scanning IDE drives....' and then 'No drive attached to fast-track controller Bios Not Installed'....

 

[ribbon13]

Did you double check this in the bios?

Bios -> advanced -> onboard devices config ->onboard promise controller -> enabled
opertaing mode : raid

 

[ribbon13]

What version of the bios are you running?

The lastest is 1009

 

[Accipiter22]

tried a new cable, same result....

yah the enabled thing/raid i've checked

i'm using version 1010 I believe, let me check



maybe you do have to have an IDE hard drive if you use an ASUS mobo?

I dunno, I keep getting the 'no drive attached to fast-track controller, bios not installed' message though

 

[ribbon13]

There is also a beta bios too.

 

[ribbon13]

Set the operating mode back to IDE and try it again. Before you had the promise completely disabled right? So promise on in ide mode... if that doesn't work then there is always the asus helpdesk

 

[Accipiter22]

hmmm i'm honestly not sure what version this is using, cause when I'm in the program to change all the settings for the bios, it says 'bios setup utility' at the top of the screen, and at the bottom 'v02.54 (C) copyright 1985-2003 American Megatrends Inc.' not sure if that helps at all

 

[ribbon13]

Try the Promise controller on, operating mode IDE?

 

[Accipiter22]

tried it, same exact error message...yet when I pull the sATA cable, i get the same error message, adn then an additional one, that says no hard drive detected...so it is detecting my HD it's just not doing anything with it, and won't use the cd-rom to install xp on it....ugh what a waste

 

[ribbon13]

Ah ha!!!

There are two SATA controllers. 2 ports each!

And you have yours connected to the Via one most likely!
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