Need Help with my Asus P5WD2 Premium Motherboard !

[Mixman]

I have been trying to install windows for the past day...no luck. First the new SATA Maxtor DiamondMax drive that I bought is hosed so that was a no go.

Now, I am trying to use my backup drive from my other system. It is a 45Gb IDE IBM drive. I have put it on the same connector as my CD rom, both connected to the blue Primary IDE connector. When installing windows I get to the part with formatting the drive and it tells me there is something wrong with the drive, or if I format it on my other computer, it gets to the part where it copies the files and stops after a few files and says that they can't be copied. I have checked the drive on three seperate drive programs (Disk Doctor, Storage Management in XP and Maxtor Maxblast) and the drive seems ok. I use it as my backup drive all the time.

I have read that when the the cd rom drive (actually a Ben Q DVD writer) and the hard drive are connected to the blue connector, there is no need for drivers.....Is this true ? What else can I try while I wait for my Maxtor to be replaced ?

 

[Mixman]

I have tried everything, but Windows will not let me install on any drive I put in. Either SATA or IDE. I have F6'd the drivers that came with the install and upgraded to the 0606 Bios. Nothing. I think the board is just defective....it shouldn't be this hard to install Windows.

The only question I might have is....could it be my CPU that is defective instead ?

I am just going to return the board and wait a couple of weeks....maybe the 975 boards will be out by then.

 

[o1die]

Try disconnecting all your devices except the hardrive. Windows will detect the cd drives later. You can also try changing the jumper on the drive. I prefer the master setting over cable select.