- Oct 9, 1999
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To make a long story short, my friend just got a K8N Ultra-SLI, and is having a SATA boot problem(similar to the one in this thread), and I was hoping some of you have used the same board, and have a clue on what to do. Basically, his problem boils down to this:
No matter what you do, the board refuses to boot off of a hard drive, making it impossible to install a OS. His 120GB WD SATA drive is recognized just fine by the BIOS, but when you attempt to boot, it all goes to hell. If RAID mode is disabled(like it should be, he isn't RAIDing), then the system throws an esoteric error message about Windows having problems booting off of the current hardware, and this is no matter what device is selected as the first boot device(i.e. CDROM-HDD, or HHD-CDROM). If RAID mode is enabled, then it'll boot off of the Windows install CD just fine, and Windows even sees the hard drive, but when it comes time to reboot and boot off of the hard drive to finish the install, it flat out never can boot from the drive. Attempting to go in to the Nvidia RAID manager(F10) to attempt the JBOD fix just results in the system locking up as far as we can tell, none of the keys respond and we can't otherwise move around to configure JBOD. The JBOD fix also fails to work via the SI3114 controller, when you have the hard drive plugged in to that, you can't go in to its RAID configuration even though the SI BIOS reports seeing the drive, throwing an error message about an "invalide(sic) device".
At this point, I've tried everything. The BIOS was updated to F2, we've tried every combo of RAID and no RAID, trying on the different SATA controllers, but it will just not boot. The reason I'm in this thread it that it sounds exactly like the problem the K8NXP-SLI had before the F7 BIOS fixed it, but we don't have the luxury of that F7 BIOS. So other than taking the board out back to shoot it, does anyone know what we should be doing here?
PS Yes, this is a repost; it's also in the K8NXP-SLI thread since the boards are so similar
No matter what you do, the board refuses to boot off of a hard drive, making it impossible to install a OS. His 120GB WD SATA drive is recognized just fine by the BIOS, but when you attempt to boot, it all goes to hell. If RAID mode is disabled(like it should be, he isn't RAIDing), then the system throws an esoteric error message about Windows having problems booting off of the current hardware, and this is no matter what device is selected as the first boot device(i.e. CDROM-HDD, or HHD-CDROM). If RAID mode is enabled, then it'll boot off of the Windows install CD just fine, and Windows even sees the hard drive, but when it comes time to reboot and boot off of the hard drive to finish the install, it flat out never can boot from the drive. Attempting to go in to the Nvidia RAID manager(F10) to attempt the JBOD fix just results in the system locking up as far as we can tell, none of the keys respond and we can't otherwise move around to configure JBOD. The JBOD fix also fails to work via the SI3114 controller, when you have the hard drive plugged in to that, you can't go in to its RAID configuration even though the SI BIOS reports seeing the drive, throwing an error message about an "invalide(sic) device".
At this point, I've tried everything. The BIOS was updated to F2, we've tried every combo of RAID and no RAID, trying on the different SATA controllers, but it will just not boot. The reason I'm in this thread it that it sounds exactly like the problem the K8NXP-SLI had before the F7 BIOS fixed it, but we don't have the luxury of that F7 BIOS. So other than taking the board out back to shoot it, does anyone know what we should be doing here?
PS Yes, this is a repost; it's also in the K8NXP-SLI thread since the boards are so similar
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