ASUS A8V-E Deluxe (socket 939) Motherboard

[ph33rgear]

Ok well my GF has the ASUS A8V-E Deluxe (socket 939) Motherboard and it used to be mine, When I upgraded I through that MB in a box with a AMD 64 3400+. Using an IDE HD.

When I used SATA drives I was running in RAID 0 and had no prblems at all. So her HD crashed and I went to add one single SATA drive to it for her but can't get the damn thing to reconize it.

I install windows(xp) and hit F6 to install the controller drivers, windows loads install files, and setup files etc.. but when windows reboots to complete the install. The computer tells me it can't find a HD.

There is two sets of SATA connectors, TWO for RAID setups and then just the regular two SATA connectors. I'm using the SATA1 out of the two regular connectors.

Could anyone give me some idea's what to try, I'm frustrated and can't figure it out right now...

 

[cutthroat]

Check your boot order in the BIOS, and that the IDE channel is enabled in the BIOS as well.

 

[4Ryan6]

F6, if I remember correctly it seems there were 2 sets of drivers on the disk and both sets had to be installed or it wouldn't work.

 

[ph33rgear]

Cutthroat: I'm trying to use SATA not IDE. IDE are enabled though for the cdburner dvd rom and dvd burner.


4ryan6:I did install both of em and it seems to be working fine until windows install does the reboot to continue installing windows. Then once it does reboot, it can't find hard disk's ...

Weird, as every other MB i've had to install the drivers for SATA on never have a problem, but this one ughhh .... and I can't really say because when I was using it I always use RAID 0...

I'll try again once I have a bit more time to spend with it, just hoping someone on here knew and could save me some time.

Thanks for the replies, and if anyone else has an idea let me know please...

 

[4Ryan6]

I did install both of em and it seems to be working fine until windows install does the reboot to continue installing windows. Then once it does reboot, it can't find hard disk's ...

I had that happen before and in my case the drivers I was using were corrupted, did you use the drivers from the website, or off the installation CD, whichever you used to do the installation use the other drivers. I think in my case I was using the installation CD drivers, and the downloaded drivers solved the problem.

 

[ph33rgear]

I did install both of em and it seems to be working fine until windows install does the reboot to continue installing windows. Then once it does reboot, it can't find hard disk's ...

I had that happen before and in my case the drivers I was using were corrupted, did you use the drivers from the website, or off the installation CD, whichever you used to do the installation use the other drivers.

Yeah I used the CD version, I'll try the downloadable version tonight and see if it works... I'll update this thread with my results too, just for other people's sake if it happens to them this miay help out.

Thanks again 4ryan6...