Problems installing XP to SATA drive

[Ryland]

Over the weekend I worked on upgrading my Asus A8V Deluxe, 6800GT, AMD 64 3400+ to an eVGA 7800GT, eVGA Nforce4 SLI board, AMD X2 4200+. My system had been running off of a SATA Raid0 array but when I go to install XP Pro or XP64 the machine just keeps rebooting after windows is installed. XP Pro shows "Mup.sys" and XP64 shows "APICTABL.DLL" as the last line when starting in Safe Mode. I checked to make sure it wasn't the CPU by dropping back to my 3400+.

I can install windows XP Pro to a PATA drive without issue. After I got windows installed I installed the chipset drivers and it was able to see my SATA raid array, create partitions and format it. I then attempted to Ghost my install to the SATA array but it ended up failing.

I know my SATA drives are fine because I was using them Saturday morning before I made the hardware upgrade.

Ideas?

 

[Chunkee]

array is corrupt?

jC

 

[Nocturnal]

I'd back your data up and try and recreate the array then reinstall. It sounds like something is happening with either the SATA driver itself or perhaps the SATA ports? You say the PATA is fine so it doesn't sound like a memory or another component interfering or causing the problem.