• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Trying to build a 98/2000/xp system

T

thechuck

Junior Member
Hi,

I'm working with a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P with an Intel P45 Core 2 Extreme. I have an ATI X800 video card in there, w/a 630W RAIDMAX power supply.

While trying to install Windows 98, I kept getting an error saying that the CD rom device was not detected.
Any suggestions?

While trying to install Windows 2000, it freezes during the installation. It says "please wait" on a Windows screen and the installation hangs.


Is the fact that the video card isn't AGP causing the issue? Is there a good work around? I want to triple boot the system so that I can run some old software.

Thanks
 
Vailr is pointing in the right direction, I suspect. To be clearer: I would guess the CD-ROM unit you have is a SATA device, not IDE. If that's the case, the problem is rooted in the fact that SATA did not exist when Win98 or Win2K were released, so neither has built-in ability to handle SATA. For that matter, XP does not, either. For XP you certainly can get and load into Windows drivers for SATA devices, but that's AFTER windows has loaded from some other device. Alternatively, you can set XP so that it allows you to load SATA drivers from a floppy at every boot-up BEFORE Win XP loads. For the earlier Windows I'm not at all sure the drivers for these exist.

However, Vailr points to the better solution. Many modern mobo BIOS's have an option for the SATA port operations. You can tell it to apply an IDE Emulation to the device on the SATA port. In essence the BIOS itself takes over the port's dealings with the SATA device and makes the rest of the world (like, Windows whatever) believe it is dealing with an IDE device, which it has no trouble with. I know this works perfectly for hard drives, and I expect it also works for DC-ROM's and DVD-ROM's that are SATA devices.

Once you Enable the SATA ports and set up IDE Emulation on them, then you have to be sure you set the Boot Priority sequence. If you want the machine to try to boot from the CD first, then fall back to the hard drive if there is no CD, make sure you set the BIOS that way.

In setting up to triple-boot from three OS's, be sure to follow all the relevant instructions about which system to set up first, second, etc.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Back
Top