Help with a Asus P5K-E mobo

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Executioner

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Hi everyone,
I bought an Asus P5K-E with WiFi, and I can't get Windows XP to recognize the SATA drives while performing a fresh install.

In the BIOS, I have the Raptor and the Seagate setup as AHCI as I don't want to create a RAID setup. I just want the system to recognize the 2 drives as SATA. If I go into the BIOS, the drives are properly identified as a Raptor 75gb and a Seagate 500gb.

I went to Asus site to download the latest RAID drivers, but they are the same version as the one on the supplied CD. The files are:
jgogo.sys
jraid.cat
Jraid.sys
jraid_f.inf
txtsetup.oem

During the XP install, I press F6 and insert the floppy drive with the above files. I select the correct version of the J-Micron (I think it's 363) and it goes on to the starting windows screen. I press enter and it comes back saying no drives detected. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. Any ideas?

If I set it to IDE, here is what device manger has to say:
http://i245.photobucket.com/al...0/Wathen1955/pick1.jpg
Does that seem correct for a SATA drive?

Also, I benched them with HD Tach:
http://i245.photobucket.com/al...0/Wathen1955/pick2.jpg
Based on that, I would think that the performance should be higher.
 
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NoelS

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Executioner,

The BIOS may show the drives correctly before the install, but you still have to select the drives as ACHI (instead of IDE) in the BIOS before you do the install...

Did you go into the BIOS and select AHCI BEFORE installing Windows? If not, there's your problem. At each fresh install of WinXP you need to 1, Go into the BIOS; 2, select ACHI in the SATA/IDE section; 3, start the WinXP install; 4, At the F6 prompt, install the ICH drivers for ACHI; 5, when Windows is installed, then go back into the BIOS and check your SATA status - it should be running as ACHI now...

Noel
 
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BoboKatt

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Yup I learned this the hard way. You can set to IDE in bios and just forget about the whole AHCI thing and it will work just fine without having to install any drivers at install. However once done you wont be able to switch to AHCI and hence, like my position, no NCQ.
 
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NoelS

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Originally posted by: Executioner
Got it installed using the repair option with F6, but the performance is the same and the hard drives are not properly identified in Device Manager:
http://i245.photobucket.com/al...0/Wathen1955/pick3.jpg
Click to expand...

Sorry to hear that you're still having problems... you DID enter the BIOS before the repair install, didn't you, and selected the AHCI choice there? If you did and the repair worked, you should be able to go into the BIOS and see that AHCI is already (still) selected and your HDDs should be shown that way also.

If you open AHCI on page one of the BIOS, it should show your HDD status, and if correct will have those that are set up for AHCI.

If you need to try another repair install, read here... I just opened my BIOS, page 1 has an item that says "SATA Configuration." Select that and on the page that comes up you'll have "Configure SATA as..." Select that and select AHCI. Now do the repair install. If that doesn't do it, you may need to do a clean install...

Noel
 
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