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It did have the SATA drivers built in with the chipset that was in it. I've
forgotten the chipset version however. The "smarts" are in the board, it was
a matter of finding out why it was looking at the HDD to boot instead of
cdrom. This seemed to go back to the old school of thinking when you only
had one IDE connector. My other Asus board did not require this type of
connection to boot and load the O/S. This board is about a year old now and
running great.
Thank to All Again
"R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
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> Hi, Parker.
>
> Congratulations! And thanks for the report back.
>
> Did you need to load any SATA drivers? Or has ASUS built enough "smarts"
> into the mobo/bios to be able to boot from the SATA HD/controller with
> only the native drivers on the WinXP CD-ROM?
>
> My own mobo (EPoX 8KDA3+, new in July 2004) has the usual 2 IDE
> connectors, plus 6 SATA connectors, but I have no SATA drives yet. So my
> two IDE HDDs (and 2 DVDs) are connected in the familiar configuration that
> is - until now - practically standard. When I do get a SATA drive, I'll
> need to know how to boot WinXP (or Longhorn?) from it.
>
> RC
> --
> R. C. White, CPA
> San Marcos, TX
> rc@corridor.net
> Microsoft Windows MVP
>
> "Parker" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
> news:uJ43zkp5EHA.1448@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> We have joy. I took the HDD connection off and it did boot to the CD.
>> So I hooked up the HDD as the master and the CD rom as the slave on the
>> same IDE cable and made sure the jumpers were correct and it boot to the
>> cd fine and loaded the O/S properly onto the HDD.
>>
>> Thank You for all of You Help
>>
>> "R. C. White" <rc@corridor.net> wrote in message
>> news:uqUf2dL5EHA.208@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>> Hi, Parker.
>>>
>>>> not recognizing the drive because sata drivers are not installed. If
>>>> I load 2000pro(i think it has these drivers) then upgrade to xp pro
>>>> will that work?
>>>
>>> No. Win2K does NOT have SATA drivers. SATA is newer than even WinXP,
>>> which is 20 months newer than Win2K. I was hoping you would get some
>>> clues from the Usenet group I suggested.
>>>
>>> If it's just a problem of missing drivers for the boot device, then it's
>>> a well-known problem that I first ran into when installing Win2K in
>>> February 2000 and have seen reported in these newsgroups dozens
>>> (hundreds?) of times since. The usual symptom was a BSOD complaining of
>>> Stop 0x7B, Inaccessible_Boot_Device. The WinXP (and Win2K) CD-ROM has
>>> enough smarts to boot the computer from CD and copy all those dozens of
>>> files to the HD. But, when the text portion of Setup has completed and
>>> the computer tries to boot from that HD for the first time, it fails
>>> because the proper drivers for that HDD/controller are NOT on the WinXP
>>> CD-ROM. The only way to install those drivers is from a floppy
>>> diskette!
>>>
>>> So, get the proper SATA drivers onto a floppy. If a floppy did not come
>>> with your mobo or HDD, then you will need to find the drivers on the
>>> ASUS or WD CD or website and put those drivers onto a floppy. With that
>>> floppy at hand, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and watch for the invitation,
>>> early in the Setup process, to Press F6 to install drivers for a SCSI or
>>> other mass storage device. Press F6 quickly and wait while Setup seems
>>> not to notice but continues to copy all those files. When it finally
>>> stops, there will be instructions onscreen for how to use that floppy to
>>> install the drivers. After that, Setup will be able to boot from the
>>> SATA drive into the GUI phase of installing WinXP.
>>>
>>> Please post back and let us know if this is the solution. That will
>>> help us know what to tell the next person with a similar problem on
>>> similar hardware.
>>>
>>> RC
>>>
>>> "Parker" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>> news:OBKzquG5EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>>>I had just recieved a response from Asus about the possibility of the xp
>>>>cd not recognizing the drive because sata drivers are not installed.
>>>>If I load 2000pro(i think it has these drivers) then upgrade to xp pro
>>>>will that work?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Jim and R.C.
>>>>
>>>> "Jim Macklin" <p51mustang[threeX12]@xxxhotmail.calm> wrote in message
>>>> news:eOac60E5EHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Out the CD in the drive and turn the computer OFF. Then
>>>>> turn it back ON again with the CD in the drive.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Parker" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
>>>>> news:u3ac2cE5EHA.1396@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>>> | Hello Everyone,
>>>>> |
>>>>> | I'm at a loss. I just built a new system with an asus
>>>>> a7v880 mobo, a basic
>>>>> | cd drive, a cd/rw drive, and a western digital 80 gig
>>>>> driveSATA. I
>>>>> | originally had a grounding issue where I got no power to
>>>>> any periferal or
>>>>> | IDE sockets. That has been solved. The system boots and
>>>>> posts just fine.
>>>>> | It finds all drive properly in the bios and I disabled the
>>>>> floppy drive in
>>>>> | the bios(none installed) and have the cd master as first
>>>>> boot then IDE HDD
>>>>> | second. All connections are fine and all jumpers are
>>>>> correct with cd master
>>>>> | jumper on master and HDD master also in master. When the
>>>>> O/S cd is put in
>>>>> | the cd master drive I hear it start as I do the HDD drive
>>>>> but no prompt for
>>>>> | " boot to cd drive press any key ". All I get is a
>>>>> blinking cursor. I have
>>>>> | 2 XP registered cd's. I tried both with the same results.
>>>>> What am I
>>>>> | forgetting or missing? I had contacted Asus for
>>>>> assistance with no help
>>>>> | because the board does post fine. Help, I'm at a loss.
>>>>> |
>>>>> | Thank You So Much for any Responses
>
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