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KR7A HELP!!

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rich2

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the system is currently:

enermax 435W supply
ABIT KR7A-RAID
AMD Athlon XP 1900
1 Maxtor ATA133 80gig HD on Highpoint 372
Geforce2 GTS
CDROM
Floppy
keyboard
mouse

now, when i put the cd in to install windowsXP and go thru the nice lil blue installation screens, and hit my f6 to install the highpoint drivers. it loads all the drivers...then it says Starting Windows Setup... now, one of 3 things happens

a) it locks
b) bluescreen Stop error
c) it goes forward, lets me choose a drive, then locks

so i cant install OS at all, i have tried moving drive off the HPT controller, and disabling it alltogether in the BIOS, SAME PROBLEM!

Bios is updated, to 6g, and grabbed the latest highpoint drivers from highpoint-tech.com (even tried some older versions just to try)

now figured maybe its WINXP, and tried installing win2k, same errors

thought maybe it was cdrom, switched in new cdrom, same errors

thought it was maybe videocard, switched in old TNT, same errors

I dont think I have EVER had this much trouble building a system, does anyone KNOW ANYTHING I can try? i am at my wits end! please help

i am convinced its the highpoint drivers, due to if i use the newest i get a lil further before it locks up...but also that doesnt explain why it doesnt work on the regular IDE chain...*sigh*

rich2
aim:rich2inboston << feel free to IM me, i am desperately needing help.

 
take a look through your bios. Make sure the settings are right. Maybe even flash the bios. Can you disable the raid in the bios to take it out of the equasion?
 
need drivers to install onto hpt, but it even errors out if u dont put in drivers and try to install on regular IDE, its ok, i am returning the board...gonna get an asus...
 
are you installing the scsi drivers at boot up I cant say that xp works this way but prolly does
with win2k at the beginning of install it asks you if you have any scsi controller... if so press f6 then it will ask you for the drivers disc. I had a hell of a time on my first abit board with onboard raid installing win2k... because I said, SCSI? I dont have no stinkin scsi and ignored that little ditty.
I hope this helps..
 
dirtsquirt, let me understand, you don't have scsi, so you didn't push the f6, as i would have done given the same prompt, and it gave you trouble? are you saying one should go the f6 route anyway? thx
 
i mentioned that in beginning of my post...

this part....

now, when i put the cd in to install windowsXP and go thru the nice lil blue installation screens, and hit my f6 to install the highpoint drivers. it loads all the drivers...then it says Starting Windows Setup...

so yes....i am convinced its something beyond my control, the board is going back tomorrow

got the asus a7v 266e 🙂
 
OOps good luck and happy computing with your new asus board..
Zig Zag. I overlooked the bit about "and hit my f6 to install the highpoint drivers" My bad
Win 2k sees Ata 66/100 controllers and raid controllers as Scsi devices. So if you have one you have to press f6 when prompted early in the install processs to tell the install you have one and wanna install drivers for it ..
 
I am not an expert with this board yet mine will be here tomorrow...

Turn off USB all of it when installing XP or 2000. See if this helps....
 
This may sound weird but it worked.

I installed XP Pro without using F6. Then I went back and reinstalled it using F6 and everything worked just fine and dandy.

By the way, I did not do it on purpose. I was in a hurry and misread the screen the first time around so I was going backl to correct my error.
 
You don't need to install the Highpoint drivers with the F6 option even though it asks for them. Support for the Highpoint controller is built into WinXP.
 


<< You don't need to install the Highpoint drivers with the F6 option even though it asks for them. Support for the Highpoint controller is built into WinXP. >>



Actually XP has driver support for the HPT370... not the 372 which is the controller on the KR7A.
 
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