Windows 2003 Server R2 and SATA drive crash and burn!

[jyates]

Hi all,

I'm stumped......

I'm trying to install Windows 2003 Server R2 on a system with a 250mb SATA hard drive in it as the main drive and it loads the installation files until you get to "setting up windows" and it crashes to a blue screen saying the installation was halted to prevent damage to the computer.

It gives the series of numbers and zero's and letters that don't mean anything to me on the blue screen.

Must SATA drivers be loaded manually with Server 2003 R2 or will it do it automatically like Vista?

I've tried manually installed SATA drivers with the disk I made from the MB CD and still blue screens or let windows do it's thing and still blue screens.

I loaded Vista Business on the system and it installs like a dream without a hitch.

Thanks in advance for any and all help!

Jim

 

[RebateMonger]

It'd likely help if you had those "series of numbers and zerioes and letters...."

If the drive controller drivers aren't loaded, Windows will simply say, "Sorry, but I can't find a hard drive."

 

[jyates]

Not that I know anything about server 2003 but I would was thinking R2 would load SATA drivers automatically.

I'll jot down that series of numbers and letters on Monday and post that information and see if that helps.

Thanks,
Jim

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: jyates
Not that I know anything about server 2003 but I would was thinking R2 would load SATA drivers automatically.

I'll jot down that series of numbers and letters on Monday and post that information and see if that helps.

Thanks,
Jim

R2 is just SP1-integrated and with a few new (non-kernel-related) features; there's no new drivers...

Why buy a server OS for a home machine with SATA drives? XP/Vista are a lot easier to use/install/etc.

 

[Nothinman]

Not that I know anything about server 2003 but I would was thinking R2 would load SATA drivers automatically.

The term "SATA drivers" is extremely vague, like "sound card drivers". There's no single driver for every chipset out there.

 

[jyates]

Originally posted by: dclive

Originally posted by: jyates
Not that I know anything about server 2003 but I would was thinking R2 would load SATA drivers automatically.

I'll jot down that series of numbers and letters on Monday and post that information and see if that helps.

Thanks,
Jim

R2 is just SP1-integrated and with a few new (non-kernel-related) features; there's no new drivers...

Why buy a server OS for a home machine with SATA drives? XP/Vista are a lot easier to use/install/etc.

Yes and Vista installs on this machine perfectly but the boss for some reason decided to use Server 2003 and I'm having to deal with it.

Edited to say that I'm not a computer guru in the least just a guy looking for some help.
So you'll have to forgive me if I use phrases that seem vague Nothinman.

 

[DrGreen2007]

you can check in the BIOS, there might be a setting for the SATA mode

AHCI is one of the options on this setting I have seen that needs the Sata drives via F6 during install

You might be able to change this to 'compatable' or 'enhanced' to get the install going without installing drivers via F6

 

[jyates]

Thanks for the ideas fellows.....we did a google search for the series of numbers and letters on the blue screen of death "stop" and read a few forums and found the very same problem with the same motherboard and the secret is that you have to load not only a SATA driver but also an IDE driver after the SATA driver and it will go on to load the OS.

Thanks again for your valuable help!

Jim

 

[RebateMonger]

Well, let us know how this turns out. I have a bad feeling that the "SATA driver, then IDE driver" isn't going to be the solution. But I hope it is.

For most motherboards, the easy way out with SATA is to turn on "IDE Emulation Mode" in the motherboard's BIOS. Windows will see the SATA-controlled drive as an IDE drive and will use the standard Windows IDE drivers.

 

[jyates]

Yes, nothing else was changed in the installation process that I tried different steps on untill I loaded the SATA driver then the IDE driver and it got past where I always got
the stop screen and it went forward to install the OS perfectly.

I know it may sound strange but that's indeed the way it went down.

Talking about "IDE Emulation Mode"......if you choose that option does the
SATA hard drive still have the performance benefit that a SATA should have over
IDE?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: jyates
Yes, nothing else was changed in the installation process that I tried different steps on untill I loaded the SATA driver then the IDE driver and it got past where I always got
the stop screen and it went forward to install the OS perfectly.

I know it may sound strange but that's indeed the way it went down.

Talking about "IDE Emulation Mode"......if you choose that option does the
SATA hard drive still have the performance benefit that a SATA should have over
IDE?

Generally yes. You lose out on native command queuing and hot-swapping, but that's it. For a server, you may be losing a couple percentage points of performance from the loss of NCQ.

 

[MCSEs]

Hi

All about windows server 2003 : http://fouad-mcse.blogspot.com

thanks