Boot via pci scsi

[Johnnysway]

Hello,

My dilema...
I have an HP (Yeah I know, sucks ass already, lol) but it works. Works slow that it. I have a VIA VT6421 SCSI RAID PCI Contoller in which I'd like to boot off of. It has one IDE I'd like to put the hard drive on and 2 sata in which 1 I will have a dvd drive, another cd drive on the main IDE on mobo. Problem is, during windows installation, I can't boot from PCI and the disk that came with controller has soo many folders and files and I think Im just not installing the 3rd party drivers from a floppy correctly??? Or is it just this piece of junk Asus mobo?

Help?!!!

 

[jaquith]

If you are using XP SP1 then it won't work with SATA and you'll need XP SP2 or SP3 for it to work properly. Also, in the BIOS see if the HDDs show-up in the Boot order. I too assume the HDDs are formatted.

XP SP3 ISO - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=2fcde6ce-b5fb-4488-8c50-fe22559d164e&displaylang=en
VIA VT6421 - http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/peripherals/serial-ata_raid/vt6421/
"Backward compatibility with existing operating system drivers, the VIA VT6421A requires no update to software. Microsoft Windows® 9x/ME/NT4/2K/XP and major Linux based Operating Systems."

RAID possibility:
If you're installing XP and RAID you 'might' either need to create an 'nLiteOS' installation CD/DVD with the VIA Drivers <OR> have a Floppy with the 'extracted' Drivers on the Floppy {e.g. <driver_name.EXE> will not work, run the executable files on another PC.

nLite - http://www.nliteos.com/