Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Crash after Boot HELP

[andrewER]

I just got this board yesterday along with a Seagate SATA Hardrive and an ATI x800XL.
It keeps reading my SATA Hardrive as an IDE, then boots to the login screen, then gives me the blue screen of death (on XP Pro) and restarts itself. I need serious help.

EDIT: Now it will not even get to the login screen nor the XP splash screen, just keeps restarting and asking if I want Normal or Safe Mode etc. When I select one it restarts.

 

[veloc1ty]

your just a scrub...simple as that. you forgot to install the sata drivers GEE GEE

 

[andrewER]

Okay I completely removed the SATA HD and it still crashes the same way.

EDIT: Plugged back in the SATA HD and now it tells me it cannot find the file ntfs.sys
Tried to run Windows Setup and it also said it was missing the file ntfs.sys.

 

[veloc1ty]

can anyone please help him? gave him a little info but not exactly sure...thanks

 

[grooge]

Well, I guess that you did not disable RAID for the SATA connector you have your HDD plugged in. By default, at least on mine, SATA controller is set to RAID in BIOS.

So, go into BIOS and set the SATA RAID to disabled. I dont remember how it is written in BIOS as I cannot shut down my computer and I 'm too lazy to find my manual. But I think it looks like rimary sata raid-- enabled/disabled.

When RAID will be disabled for the controller, it will work as a normal IDE controller, an it is normal, because SATA is only the interface between an IDE HDD and an IDE controller. No drivers will be necessary.

Other than that, you may have to reinstall the OS if it got screwed by a non functionning RAID array on a controller set to be used as a RAID controller.

Many peoples think that SATA=RAID, which is false. RAID is a controller mode, while SATA is only a newer interface to replace the old ATA interface.

SATA drivers are needed on chipset that do not have native SATA interface support. Older motherboard were using third party RAID controller, like Promise or Sil, to add SATA interface support. This controller communicate with the system by the PCI bus. This is why drivers are needed, either for SATA or RAID. , because it is an added device just like a sound card that need drivers.

Modern chipset, like you nforce4 has native SATA support. that means that the controller can send and retrieve data from the sata interface right on.

 

[narcotic]

Originally posted by: grooge
So, go into BIOS and set the SATA RAID to disabled. I dont remember how it is written in BIOS as I cannot shut down my computer and I 'm too lazy to find my manual. But I think it looks like rimary sata raid-- enabled/disabled.

yup yup yup. I had the same problem, that will solve it, no need to install or uninstall ANY drivers!!!!

 

[Turkey22]

The other way to set it up with this board is to set it as a striped drive of one. I set up a new one over the weekend and for me it wouldnt install windows at all, on reboot it would go back into the initial windows install. Part of adding the stripe is setting it as bootable, but disabling raid should work too...

 

[andrewER]

It turned out that one of my sticks of memory was bad. Took it out and that fixed all my problems. Thanks for help.

 

[narcotic]

Originally posted by: andrewER
It turned out that one of my sticks of memory was bad. Took it out and that fixed all my problems. Thanks for help.

ah... the problem you described on your first post didn't seem related to memory, and I still belive you're confusing 2 different issues here, but as long as you solved it, it's cool.

 

[HighCalibreHooch]

Originally posted by: andrewER
It turned out that one of my sticks of memory was bad. Took it out and that fixed all my problems. Thanks for help.

BTW if your not running RAID be sure to disable it in the BIOS, but leave the SATA controllers enabled. Let us know how it works out.

HCH