My Setup:
Athlon 64 3200+
K8V Deluxe
Corsair 1GB TWINX1024-3200C2
Hitatchi 160 GB SATA
eVGA GeForce 5950
LG 4081B
After fiddling around the whole (long) weekend, I finally got XP installed. With a single SATA drive, I first tried the VIA, then the Promise controllers, neither worked at first. It took me a while to realize the F6 ?trick? but since I was hoping to avoid having to buy a floppy drive, I was stuck. Using a Lexar USB jump drive/stick I got a bit further. After pressing F6, XP install eventually accessed the SATA drivers (I used the makedisk for the VIA drivers on the ASUS CD and then copied the files to the USB drive). But after this ? and I think XP install needs access to the drive a second time - an error message saying something along the lines of ?Please Insert the Raid SATA controller drivers??. No matter what I loaded onto the Jumpdrive made XP install go on. During this process I also noticed some sort of conflict between the USB Keyboard (Logitech Elite Duo) and the USB drive: at bios startup the Keyboard would stop working until I pulled out the USB drive ? perhaps that is what caused all the trouble). With hindsight I definitely recommend a floppy drive rather than a USB drive for the installation.
I finally conceded defeat and bought a floppy drive and it worked nearly flawlessly. Set BIOS to enable VIA and disable Promise and installed XP and all the drivers, set boot sequence etc. The system still needs a lot of tweaking as I am getting random reboots from time to time. I suppose memory settings/location are to blame. Currently the Corsair 2*512 matched pair are on 1 and 3. Playing around with memory settings will be my next time wasting activity?
Athlon 64 3200+
K8V Deluxe
Corsair 1GB TWINX1024-3200C2
Hitatchi 160 GB SATA
eVGA GeForce 5950
LG 4081B
After fiddling around the whole (long) weekend, I finally got XP installed. With a single SATA drive, I first tried the VIA, then the Promise controllers, neither worked at first. It took me a while to realize the F6 ?trick? but since I was hoping to avoid having to buy a floppy drive, I was stuck. Using a Lexar USB jump drive/stick I got a bit further. After pressing F6, XP install eventually accessed the SATA drivers (I used the makedisk for the VIA drivers on the ASUS CD and then copied the files to the USB drive). But after this ? and I think XP install needs access to the drive a second time - an error message saying something along the lines of ?Please Insert the Raid SATA controller drivers??. No matter what I loaded onto the Jumpdrive made XP install go on. During this process I also noticed some sort of conflict between the USB Keyboard (Logitech Elite Duo) and the USB drive: at bios startup the Keyboard would stop working until I pulled out the USB drive ? perhaps that is what caused all the trouble). With hindsight I definitely recommend a floppy drive rather than a USB drive for the installation.
I finally conceded defeat and bought a floppy drive and it worked nearly flawlessly. Set BIOS to enable VIA and disable Promise and installed XP and all the drivers, set boot sequence etc. The system still needs a lot of tweaking as I am getting random reboots from time to time. I suppose memory settings/location are to blame. Currently the Corsair 2*512 matched pair are on 1 and 3. Playing around with memory settings will be my next time wasting activity?
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