HELP! Asus P6T Deluxe: SATA HDD/IDE OPTICAL DRIVE and WIN XP 64-bit

[maverick82]

Hi All,

I'm assembling my first core i7 PC. The following is my config:

Core i7 920
Asus P6T MB
Corsair 6GB
GeForce 8800GT 512MB
WD Velociraptor 300GB
SONY DVD/RW (IDE Drive)

I have a Velociraptor connected to one of my (6) SATA ports (connected it to the first one) and the optical drive connected to IDE. When I try to install XP 64-bit, the HDD doesn't show up in the setup. This is expected behavior of any SATA Disk. I then, slipstreamed SATA Drivers from the Asus supplied MB disk onto the XP disk. Still doesn't work. I created a second disk, with drivers downloaded from Asus site. Still no luck.

The BIOS is new to me and I am still in learning process. The opening screen of the BIOS shows no disks connected to any of the six SATA ports. However, just before entering the BIOS (after POST), I do see a line about the HDD and another line about my SONY optical drive.

I've changed the SATA mode to "compatible" in the BIOS from "enhanced", trying to make it work as an IDE, without AHCI. But, XP setup still doesn't recognize it. I've even "disabled" the SATA mode (out of frustration), and it wouldn't obviously work.

At this point, I am out of options. Any ideas?

Thank you all for the help!

 

[vailr]

The IDE port is on the JMicron controller. So, you may need to slipstream the JMicron driver.
For 32 bit XP, the best method would be to slipstream "DriverPack MassStorage" & "DriverPack Chipset" from here:
http://driverpacks.net/DriverPacks/
onto a WinXP SP3 disc.

 

[dajeepster]

Update your bios. they just released version 1104 for this board.
I'm using the Velociraptor 300GB with this board also and I've had no problems. when I got my board, it had bios version 0802 on it.
I'm also running Vista Ultimate 64bit. I didn't need to install any drivers before I needed to instal windows.