gigabyte kn8xp and wd raptor help

[jax1492]

i just got the gigavyte kn8xp - sli mother borad and set every thing up ... well here is where the probem starts.

i install the dvd rom sata drive and ide floppy and a 36gb wd raptor ... i boot up and at the first screen it says from ide 1-4 nothing is installed .. and then "checksum error"

so i go into the bios and see that i can select my floppy sl120 or my plextor as boot devices but not my wd raptor.... so i carry on. i boot from the xp cd and get to where it loads drivers from the cd to the hd thats ok then i get to where its going to load windows .. blue screens me every time at this point its "STOP:0x0000007b" and so on ... i tried to put the sata drivers on a floppy like i read on teh net and install them at the F6 promp with no luck .. any help? thanks

 

[Maetryx]

Have you tried removing the sl120? Is that one of those 120MB super A: disk drives? Those weren't well supported by industry. Maybe it's causing a conflict.

 

[jax1492]

its a regular 1.44 floppy maybe its not listed then .. its not a super disk drive

 

[Maetryx]

I wonder if one of your memory modules is bad or if you are running it out of spec (i.e. too fast or with too few latencies).

Also, I don't know that motherboard. Is IDE 1-4 you SATA drive, or are those your parallel IDE drives?

 

[jax1492]

it says ide slave master 2 of each im not sure if its sata or not either ... i was thinking i got a bad hd cause it crashed on windows xp load ... but im at my wits end at this pont.

 

[Maetryx]

I looked up your motherboard at Gigabyte's website and I see that it has a total of 8 SATA connectors. Are you on the right ones?

 

[Maetryx]

I think that the BIOS is reporting that you have no parallel drives on the motherboard (and that is correct). So IDE1-4 has nothing and that should be fine. Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, Secondary Slave is all referring to the original IDE standard, which is parallel ATA.

But what about your DVD-ROM drive? Where is it connected?

 

[jax1492]

my dvd rom is on 1sata and my wd raptor is on 0sata the red sata in the gigabyte board are regular sata and the yellow that im not using are for raid. Also i have reseaded the memory and power to every thing. i still got the blue screen rightr before it was to install windows.

 

[Maetryx]

Do you have a floppy disk that came with the Western Digital Raptor? Boot off of that and run some diagnostics on the hard drive.

 

[jax1492]

i tried to make a boot disk from the the web sites download cause my drive is oem but when i try to boot from it i get non system disc error ... i tried to run memtest86 and the western digital apps from a floppy and they died so maybe its rma time.

 

[Maetryx]

You might have your floppy accidentally configured as a superdisk based on our earlier discussion. Make sure your floppy is a 3-1/2" 1.44MB diskette drive in the BIOS.

 

[jax1492]

i check it and it was correctly set as a 3.5" floppy ... i guess i will have to give gigabyte a call monday ..

 

[Maetryx]

Good luck. I'm not sure what it up. Sporadic problems like this are often heat or memory related. But it is really hard to tell. I was basically just saying a lot of different things to see if maybe it would cause you to accidentally find the problem.

 

[jax1492]

thanks for the help

 

[jax1492]

i got it working!! found some sata drives and hit F6 and added them .... anyone have my board gigabyte k8nxp - sli ... any other good sata drivers out there?