SATA problem with NF7-S

[Shortass]

I actually have a few problems I need to work out. First of all, when it detects the harddrives all it comes up with is my 52x Lite-On cdrw drive, which is certiainly wrong. I'm not sure why it's doing this, maybe the wires hooked up wrong?

The second problem is that my SATA harddrive (36.7gb Raptor) isn't being recognized at all. I cannot install the OS because I have no harddrive (other than my CDRW drive), so I don't know what to do.

 

[Megatomic]

When you go to install Windows, are you pressing F6 so that Windows will install other controllers (in your case the SiI 3112 SATA controlller)?

Also, in the BIOS section called Integrated Peripherals have you enabled SATA BOOT ROM and the SATA Controller itself?

 

[wseyller]

Don't know about your board but you may need to get the sata driver off the cd-rom onto a floppy disk.

 

[Megatomic]

The NF7-S comes with a SATA driver floppy disk. It's probably an old version, but it can be updated once windows is installed.

 

[Insane3D]

You can also make a custom XP CD with the Nvidia drivers, SATA, and any other system drivers you want so a floppy is not needed. Just made one myself and it's works like a charm!

 

[wseyller]

Nice features

Its good to see Mobo manufacters do more to make things easier.

 

[Shortass]

Does anyone know what might be the problem with the cd-rom drive being seen as the harddrive? I haven't gotten a chance to look at the wiring, but I was pretty sure I got it right...

 

[Insane3D]

Do you have blank media in there? It might see the burner with the blank media as a storage medium on the IDE bus. Also, a CD-R/-RW that has not been finalized may cause this too...

Just an idea...

 

[Rix13]

dude.. did you not read above.. YOU NEED TO INSTALL THE SATA DRIVERS THAT CAME ON A FLOPPY WITH YOUR MOTHERBOARD IN ORDER FOR XP INSTALL TO SEE YOUR HARD DRIVE

 

[Hyperlite]

You have 2 drives, correct? Raptor and CDRW? ok lets see if i can remember this....Raptor should connect to Primary IDE Master, CDRW should be on Secondary IDE Master. you may need to change the boot order in the BIOS if you can't get the floppy to read.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Hyperlite
You have 2 drives, correct? Raptor and CDRW? ok lets see if i can remember this....Raptor should connect to Primary IDE Master, CDRW should be on Secondary IDE Master. you may need to change the boot order in the BIOS if you can't get the floppy to read.

The raptor is SATA, the CDRW is IDE, no master/slave, the CDRW could be either, and the Raptor can be primary sata channel. (I think thats the term)

 

[Shortass]

Originally posted by: Rix13
dude.. did you not read above.. YOU NEED TO INSTALL THE SATA DRIVERS THAT CAME ON A FLOPPY WITH YOUR MOTHERBOARD IN ORDER FOR XP INSTALL TO SEE YOUR HARD DRIVE

Yeah, I read it. I also understood it. I was simply wondering why the CDRW was being recognized as a harddrive at all. Last time I checked it wasn't a combo HDD/CD-RW drive, so I was surprised. I'm sure it won't affect anything, but it's still confusing to me.

I guess it's just because it's hooked up to the IDE port. It's my first time building, so I really don't know why some things show up. You don't have to yell at me for it. Next time you should read what I'm asking.

 

[Insane3D]

You have any luck? I sent you a pm...

 

[Zelmo3]

Originally posted by: Shortass
I guess it's just because it's hooked up to the IDE port.

Yeah, that's the ticket. Anything on the IDE port should show up in the BIOS' HDD list.
As far as getting the SATA to work, check in your BIOS>Integrated Peripherals>Onboard PCI Device and make sure SATA Controller is Enabled. It should be by default, but you want to be sure. Then, assuming you just have the one SATA drive and/or are not doing RAID, just have the driver disk handy and press F6 when the WinXP installer tells you to.

 

[Wolfsraider]

When I installed my Raptors in raid 0 , I had to enable 4 settings in the bios:1 enable the use of sata drives 2 for the controller (onboard),
3 for the raid,4 for the boot from...then Control+I(to access the raid config gui) to Set the array to 16kb stripe,and raid 0 , name the array, and finally, In win xp I had to hit F6 and install the drivers... then load partition hdd space / windows.

Hope this Helps

Mike

 

[Shortass]

All I had to do was press F6 when it told me to, which I didn't do for some reason, and now I can't even get to that display anymore. I get past the memory testing and it goes to another screen, says something works, and then restarts the process all over again. I'm formatting my HDD because I may have started the WinXP install. Maybe it's the order in booting... Floppy, SATA, CD. I'll try Floppy, CD, and then SATA in hopes of getting to the installation so I can do up the new drivers for the SATA.

 

[Shortass]

Alright, I got it to work. For some reason the weird bios problem stopped after the formatting of the HDD, so I guess I was somewhat right. I'm now formatting it and installing WinXP. Thanks for the help.

 

[Wolfsraider]

cool glad to see you got it

:beer::beer:

mike