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Ok after 6 years I bit the bullet and went to Athlon. I used to
despise these things and now I have changed. I just build a new pc
specs.

Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
64Bit 3500
3 x 200 Gig SATA Drives
3.5 gig ram

Now installing XP off a cd when the pc starts up it never says "Press
any key to boot from CD" it just automatically does it. All said and
done ths is great BUTT after I create partition and start to load XP
it does its usual "restart n 15 seconds" so it can continue its
install.

Now comes the ful part. With XP in the cdrom I automatically boots off
of it and wants to install a fresh XP and i cannot continue to
install. How do I get around this? Really pointless to have a new
Athlon :)

HELP !!!!

Thanx
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

pwrmngr@gmail.com wrote:
> Ok after 6 years I bit the bullet and went to Athlon. I used to
> despise these things and now I have changed. I just build a new pc
> specs.
>
> Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
> 64Bit 3500
> 3 x 200 Gig SATA Drives
> 3.5 gig ram
>
> Now installing XP off a cd when the pc starts up it never says "Press
> any key to boot from CD" it just automatically does it. All said and
> done ths is great BUTT after I create partition and start to load XP
> it does its usual "restart n 15 seconds" so it can continue its
> install.
>
> Now comes the ful part. With XP in the cdrom I automatically boots off
> of it and wants to install a fresh XP and i cannot continue to
> install. How do I get around this? Really pointless to have a new
> Athlon :)
>
> HELP !!!!
>
> Thanx
Its all in the BIOS

Change your boot order.
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

I've completely removd cdrom from the boot order but for some reason
it keeps looking for it and then freezes. It boots h/d, floppy,
disabled, disabled. still llooks for the cd 🙁

Like the good old days of "press any key to boot off cd".

This the same Beowolf from MiRC ?




On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:31:40 -0700, Beowulf <edkchem@netscape.net>
wrote:

>pwrmngr@gmail.com wrote:
>> Ok after 6 years I bit the bullet and went to Athlon. I used to
>> despise these things and now I have changed. I just build a new pc
>> specs.
>>
>> Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
>> 64Bit 3500
>> 3 x 200 Gig SATA Drives
>> 3.5 gig ram
>>
>> Now installing XP off a cd when the pc starts up it never says "Press
>> any key to boot from CD" it just automatically does it. All said and
>> done ths is great BUTT after I create partition and start to load XP
>> it does its usual "restart n 15 seconds" so it can continue its
>> install.
>>
>> Now comes the ful part. With XP in the cdrom I automatically boots off
>> of it and wants to install a fresh XP and i cannot continue to
>> install. How do I get around this? Really pointless to have a new
>> Athlon :)
>>
>> HELP !!!!
>>
>> Thanx
>Its all in the BIOS
>
>Change your boot order.
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.gigabyte (More info?)

Keep looking further into the bios.
I am not familiar with that particular one but I suspect there is a setting
like
"boot from SATA/IDE/PIDE"?
& also
"Boot from which HD"?
Obviously your computer can "see" the HD but you haven't enabled "boot
from".



<pwrmngr@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:0qu831pgplvo9545n8c172atotoa9nhn1a@4ax.com...
> I've completely removd cdrom from the boot order but for some reason
> it keeps looking for it and then freezes. It boots h/d, floppy,
> disabled, disabled. still llooks for the cd 🙁
>
> Like the good old days of "press any key to boot off cd".
>
> This the same Beowolf from MiRC ?
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:31:40 -0700, Beowulf <edkchem@netscape.net>
> wrote:
>
> >pwrmngr@gmail.com wrote:
> >> Ok after 6 years I bit the bullet and went to Athlon. I used to
> >> despise these things and now I have changed. I just build a new pc
> >> specs.
> >>
> >> Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
> >> 64Bit 3500
> >> 3 x 200 Gig SATA Drives
> >> 3.5 gig ram
> >>
> >> Now installing XP off a cd when the pc starts up it never says "Press
> >> any key to boot from CD" it just automatically does it. All said and
> >> done ths is great BUTT after I create partition and start to load XP
> >> it does its usual "restart n 15 seconds" so it can continue its
> >> install.
> >>
> >> Now comes the ful part. With XP in the cdrom I automatically boots off
> >> of it and wants to install a fresh XP and i cannot continue to
> >> install. How do I get around this? Really pointless to have a new
> >> Athlon :)
> >>
> >> HELP !!!!
> >>
> >> Thanx
> >Its all in the BIOS
> >
> >Change your boot order.
>
 
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<pwrmngr@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:frb731d3d590u5h5cs33sehl7fp64f689s@4ax.com...
> Ok after 6 years I bit the bullet and went to Athlon. I used to
> despise these things and now I have changed. I just build a new pc
> specs.
>
> Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9
> 64Bit 3500
> 3 x 200 Gig SATA Drives
> 3.5 gig ram
>
> Now installing XP off a cd when the pc starts up it never says "Press
> any key to boot from CD" it just automatically does it. All said and
> done ths is great BUTT after I create partition and start to load XP
> it does its usual "restart n 15 seconds" so it can continue its
> install.
>
> Now comes the ful part. With XP in the cdrom I automatically boots off
> of it and wants to install a fresh XP and i cannot continue to
> install. How do I get around this? Really pointless to have a new
> Athlon :)
>
> HELP !!!!
>
> Thanx

You've not installed the SATA drive correctly, the manual is rubbish as
you're the tenth person I've told how to do this.

Plug the drive into channel 0 (this isn't essential but is neater). Go into
the BIOS & Integrated Peripherals, disable all the IDE/SATA RAID function
and each of the RAID channel options, turn off all the SATA/IDE channels
your not using and reboot. Your drive should now be detected after the
memory check, go back into BIOS and in the advanced BIOS features set the
hard disk boot priority & first boot device.

During Windows install it should now detect the drive as the correct size
(it will have got it wrong before), create a partition & reformat (don't try
to use the partition you made earlier - it will be corrupt).

With 3 drives you'd be much better with a RAID setup, but you'll need the
drivers and the instructions in the back of the manual.
 
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"RM" <RM@hotter.com> wrote in message
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> With 3 drives you'd be much better with a RAID setup, but you'll need the
> drivers and the instructions in the back of the manual.

Can you run three drives in RAID 0?
 
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"Richard Dower" <richarddower@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> "RM" <RM@hotter.com> wrote in message
> news:4235c572$0$10943$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...
>
>> With 3 drives you'd be much better with a RAID setup, but you'll need the
>> drivers and the instructions in the back of the manual.
>
> Can you run three drives in RAID 0?
>
>

From the manual, don't see why you couldn't:

RAID 0 (Striping)

RAID 0 reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple drives.
If any disk member fails, it

affects the entire array. The disk array data capacity is equal to the
number of drive members times the

capacity of the smallest member. The striping block size can be set from 4KB
to 64KB. RAID 0 does not

support fault tolerance.
 
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"RM" <RM@hotter.com> wrote in message
news:4235f9cd$0$2770$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com...
>
> From the manual, don't see why you couldn't:
>
> RAID 0 (Striping)
>
> RAID 0 reads and writes sectors of data interleaved between multiple
> drives. If any disk member fails, it
>
> affects the entire array. The disk array data capacity is equal to the
> number of drive members times the
>
> capacity of the smallest member. The striping block size can be set from
> 4KB to 64KB. RAID 0 does not
>
> support fault tolerance.
>
>

I've always assumed you need either 2 or 4 drives for RAID 0. I've got two
WD Raptors in RAID 0 in the GA-K8NXP-9.
 
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