So I format my Raptor- "Fail to boot OS"....HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!

[PVD]

OK, I have gone through countless hardware problems getting this system up and running. I have had a DOA Leadtek 6800gt, a processor that got up to 65 degrees C and cut itself off after only formatting the HD, and now this. I know I have a SATA drive and hit f6 anf put the "g72-nvsa020 nforce 3 SATA RAID DRIVER FOR WIN XP" disk in and installed the RAID and NFORCE storage drivers. I formatted the Raptor and it installed the OS up until the ponit it asks you to reboot. When it reboots, if I leave the Winxp cd in it just will try to reinstall windows at the same point I did earlier (hit f6 yada yada)... and if I change my boot sequence to hard drive first, it gives me the message "can't load OS" or something like that. Is there any bios settings i need to screw with?? Why won't this damn thing load. I thought I installed the SATA drive. Please help. Ihave had this damn computer for a week and have yet to even install windows.................

 

[imported_Adonis]

I'm sorta having the same problem, only I can't get my computer to recognize my SATA drive.

🙁

 

[Robor]

You should only have to provide your SATA controller driver one time at the beginning of the install. After that, assuming your BIOS is configured correctly, the system should prompt you to hit a key to boot from CD (don't), and continue loading the OS.

 

[Viper96720]

You didn't format after installing the sata drivers? If you did you erased the drivers.

 

[PVD]

Originally posted by: Robor
You should only have to provide your SATA controller driver one time at the beginning of the install. After that, assuming your BIOS is configured correctly, the system should prompt you to hit a key to boot from CD (don't), and continue loading the OS.

I don't understand. I installed both the Raid Sspport and Nvidia Support drivers (is this ok?). It then istalled the inital files of windows fine, up until it says the sytem will reboot in 15 secs. You are saying AFTER this, don't hit the boot from CD propmp after the bios loads again??

 

[PVD]

Originally posted by: Viper96720
You didn't format after installing the sata drivers? If you did you erased the drivers.

Let's see. I installed the drivers at first, and then it asked me to format the drive. I formatted the entire drive. I tried before creating a 20 gig partition and doing the same with the end result the same. After it formats the drive, it will ask me to insert the floppy again and will install the RAID drivers agian, and the installt the files of XP. It will then ask to reboot and will not boot from the hardrive without that errror message. If i leave the cd in, it will go through the whole install prccess from the begining, but will say there is a previous version of windows installed "do I want to repair or erase it". This is so damn frustrating.

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: PVD

Originally posted by: Robor
You should only have to provide your SATA controller driver one time at the beginning of the install. After that, assuming your BIOS is configured correctly, the system should prompt you to hit a key to boot from CD (don't), and continue loading the OS.

I don't understand. I installed both the Raid Sspport and Nvidia Support drivers (is this ok?). It then istalled the inital files of windows fine, up until it says the sytem will reboot in 15 secs. You are saying AFTER this, don't hit the boot from CD propmp after the bios loads again??

The only controller driver you need to provide is the one that has the HD you'll be loading Windows on. When the system prompts you for another controller you hit F6 and provide it. You did that or you wouldn't have been able to format the drive as Windows wouldn't have been able to "see' it. After that you do not need to provide it again. Just let Windows restart and don't hit any keys to boot from the CD or anything. It should boot normally.

Edit: I just noticed your sig... Is that the board people were having trouble with as far as setting the boot drive in the BIOS? The reason I ask is I've been looking for a motherboard for my 939 3200+ and the MSI is one that was on my list. I know one of the boards had a confusing BIOS for setting boot order. Maybe double-check your settings there.

 

[PVD]

setting the boot order in the bios is not a problem. It is easy actually

 

[PVD]

Originally posted by: Robor
You should only have to provide your SATA controller driver one time at the beginning of the install. After that, assuming your BIOS is configured correctly, the system should prompt you to hit a key to boot from CD (don't), and continue loading the OS.

OK. I reinstalled and rebooted and didn't hit the key to boot from CD, and it agian then 3 seconds later gave me the errot "fail to boot operating system"


ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

 

[PVD]

anybody????

 

[Robor]

Originally posted by: PVD

Originally posted by: Robor
You should only have to provide your SATA controller driver one time at the beginning of the install. After that, assuming your BIOS is configured correctly, the system should prompt you to hit a key to boot from CD (don't), and continue loading the OS.

OK. I reinstalled and rebooted and didn't hit the key to boot from CD, and it agian then 3 seconds later gave me the errot "fail to boot operating system"


ARGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

Man, that's frustrating. I don't know what to suggest next. I mean, if it's booting from the CD and loading the controller driver and beginning the OS load all should be good on reboot.

Ah, as far as boot order confusion maybe I'm thinking of the Asus or Gigabyte board.

 

[Viper96720]

What's your boot order? F11 on boot and check what options you have.

 

[PVD]

Well, someone earlier on the forums helped me figure out the solution. With the MSI Neo bios, you have to enable the SATA drive to "large" instead of auto detect. Something with the award bios and drives bigger than 33gb after reading many posts. Thanks user tHat I can't remember the name.