Hardware Analysis Community Forums http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/ 2009-01-07T17:01:41-05:00 http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/ http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/halogo.gif text/html 2005-10-10T06:32:29-05:00 James Willis http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#334560 I've read through the entire thread and I think I know the exact resolution.<br /> <br /> Go into the bios (F8 I believe) and tell the motherboard to boot from SCSI. For some reason on A7N8X motherboards, there's no boot from serial ATA option and this is instead done via scsi. Try it and let me know if it works. text/html 2005-09-11T15:33:59-05:00 Howard Downin http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#322504 Chris<br /> I had the same problem. Bought asus a8n-sli premium mb and wd sata hard drive and installed win xp 64 on the new drive. It would not boot without a bootable cd inserted. I had three ide drives in the puter and finally after much frustration I did this.<br /> Turned off the computer and disconected the power cord to all ide drives leaving only the sata with power.<br /> Did a clean install of windows xp 64 bit and when finished rebooted ... worked fine!<br /> Shut down the computer and re-connected all three ide drives. Rebooted and everything is ok. All drives were re-assinged (sata is now c<img src="http://media.hardwareanalysis.com/smilies/smile1.gif" width="14" height="14" border="0" alt=":)" title=":)"> Did ms updates and installed my programs including shrink and dvd decrypter, power dvd etc.<br /> Now I'm happy!<br /> <br /> hope this helps someone.<br /> text/html 2004-04-07T15:07:35-05:00 Jake P http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#122673 try searching the asus forums for information on the A7N8X deluxe at <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.nforcershq.com." target="_blank">http://www.nforcershq.com.</a> I have a post there, thatdetails the installation of windows on a SATA drive. Look it up. text/html 2004-04-07T06:46:17-05:00 Tom G http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#122546 Hey Guys My Name Is Tom<br /> <br /> I have a very similar problem except I am using the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and a Seagate 80Gb Barracuda Serial ATA I tried to went to the Asus website loaded the correct files and put them on a floppy. During setup pressed F6 and put on the drivers correctly they installed no problems. Then went to Format using NTFS and still in Text Mode Setup during the copying of files it freezes around 70% of the way. And gives me a blue Technical Error Screen Drive_Lesser_Or_Equal and I have no clue of what to do could someone plz help me.<br /> <br /> Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe<br /> Seagate 80Gb Barracuda Serial ATA<br /> Windows XP Home Edition<br /> Athlon XP 2500+<br /> Thermalright SLK 900U<br /> Antec Sonata text/html 2004-02-11T09:04:03-05:00 Oystein Jakobsen http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#102774 My comp is this :<br /> <br /> a7n8x Deluxe w/ 1.007 bios<br /> Athlon XP 2200+<br /> Samsung S1614C 160g SATA drive<br /> <br /> I had an IDE drive in my comp at the time I installed Windows XP - that is the only cause of my problem that I see. It wont boot at all, even with all the advice I see here. MB is set to SATA enable, latest bios, boot sequence to SCSI...all it does is...looks like its trying to boot via network. I remove the IDE drive and nothing happens, when its in I can boot from the SATA drive without trouble.<br /> <br /> When I installed windows first time around I did the trick with drivers on a disk and it worked, but now it wont. Any suggestions? text/html 2004-01-16T05:13:43-05:00 Matt Rodriguez http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#93762 It's a long thread cuz so many people have the mobo and the SATA support is basically just like having a SATA adapter PCI card.<br /> <br /> if it's at numbers that are 2^Nth, i.e. 512, 1024, 4096, I'd seriously consider just hijacking a floppy drive from another computer and check to see if it works because I know those files work. If the drive's the problem, you can exchange it for a working one if you just bought the drive or you can get a new one at <a class="ext" target="_blank" href="/action/r/http://newegg.com">newegg.com</a> for $7.00 or less. text/html 2004-01-16T03:53:41-05:00 Chris Haug http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#93741 Wow, just realized how freakin' old this thread is... I'm using the 1007 bios, by the way. text/html 2004-01-16T03:51:44-05:00 Chris Haug http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#93740 Bad floppy drive?? CRAP! I just bought this thing. I'm hoping it's something else... These are the files I copied from the CD to the floppy:<br /> <br /> Si3112r.inf<br /> Si3112r.mpd<br /> Si3112r.sys<br /> SIISUPP.VXD<br /> TxtSetup.oem<br /> <br /> Then I get that same error message Matt described concerning &quot;Si3112r.sys&quot;. GRRRR!!!! text/html 2003-12-27T22:26:56-05:00 Matt Rodriguez http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#86663 files i was talking about was listed by mark simpson...and the 1.0040 drivers are out now for anyone that's interested. text/html 2003-12-27T22:25:57-05:00 Matt Rodriguez http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/?o=20#86662 Sorry, forgot to post my result as soon as i figured it out. I've been busy installing software. So the error that i got as actually related to a bad floppy drive. No big deal i guess. The method of F6 and using the drivers that came with the CD worked flawlessly from there on. text/html 2003-12-27T15:14:47-05:00 Sally Urbaniak http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/#86579 Hi just thout i would add my thoughts. I have an Asus A7V8X and althought it came with raid and SATA ready I just used a 7200 IDE drive, then added another drive to increase storage. Well 2 nitghts before Christmas one of the hdds died and the system wouldn't boot, due to the late hour hubby went out and purchased a Seagate 7200 SATA drive.<br /> Well I had the old boot drive (pphew) so my son could play his new games. Decided to try to install the SATA drive but the bios didn't seem to like that, went into the fastrack promise software but it wouldn't read the IDE drive and as I could not afford loss of data I was panicked. <br /> <br /> Day after christmas tried again, checked a news group and re read the manual again. I had assumed that the SATA drive was similar to an IDE and hadn't realised that you need to use a raid setup (at least as far as I can observe) and must plug the IDE into a different (raid_Pri) socket.<br /> Loaded okay still not recognising it in BIOS but it seems to run off the fasttrack promise controller. Followed the instructions in the manual setting up a mirror or raid_1 setup so as not to lose existing data on IDE drive. The program transferred the contents of the source drive and all works well. <br /> <br /> Only problem is with the raid setup you only see one drive ( the original) - don't quite understand that bit yet but guess it's the the way the mirroring is supposed to work. Now I want to get another 120 SATA drive and set up a system Raid_0 for performance hence i would presume gaining the full 240 odd gigs.<br /> <br /> Anyhow so far the drives are performing and while I save for the 2nd drive i shall prepare the old one ie backup. Well it's really late sorry all that wasn't succint but it could prove useful info.<br /> <br /> Good luck and Merry Chrismas and New Year<br /> text/html 2003-12-27T03:52:53-05:00 Matt Rodriguez http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/#86479 Hmmm...let's see if i can get some help if i re-open this can of worms. I tried the suggestion that Mark Simpson posted up above. When i'm trying to install the drivers, the setup seems to be downloading the drivers, but then I get an error.<br /> <br /> 'file txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (1024) at line 1742 in d:\xpsp1\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.'<br /> <br /> Does anyone have any suggestions?<br /> <br /> Any help would be much appreciated.<br /> <br /> Thanks. text/html 2003-12-24T11:19:45-05:00 Stef Tiemann http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/#85739 @Mark Simpson<br /> You saved our day! My friend bought a new computer with the ASUS 7N8X board and so my dad wanted to install WinxP on it, but WinXP and the BIOS couldn't find the mobo. My dad usually is a wizz with computers, but with this one he went berserk ;-) Anyway, I searched the net and came to this board and found your message. I sent the link to my dad and he did what you wrote...and voila...it works. So we just send you a big thanks!!! Cheers Stef and Vatta text/html 2003-11-12T01:05:37-05:00 soma tan http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/#74440 My problem ended up being with the jumper settings on my raptor drive. I felt like an idiot for not having downloaded the online documentation (I bought an OEM drive). I originally left the jumpers on the factory default PM1 (power management 1) settings with the jumper connecting pins 5 and 6. I switched to pins 7 and 8 and it identified the drive right away and installed the controller/drivers without a problem. Here is the view of the back of my raptor harddrive and how the jumpers are numbered:<br /> <br /> TOP of Raptor Hard Drive<br /> serial ata serial ata 1 3 5 7 legacy 4pin<br /> power connector 2 4 6 8 power connector<br /> BOTTOM of Raptor Hard Drive<br /> <br /> Hope this helps.<br /> text/html 2003-10-17T13:10:08-05:00 Jake P http://www.hardwareanalysis.com/content/topic/10305/#67519 Well, I don't know what to tell you. Did you get the correct drivers to match your OS? Are you installing Xp-64 or Xp? If your board has an Nforce3 chipset, take a look at the forums on <a class="ext" href="/action/r/http://www.nforcershq.com" target="_blank">http://www.nforcershq.com</a> . If your machine is hanging there, at the Starting windows splash screen, try starting in safe mode, or adding the /sos switch instead of /fastdetect to the bootloader line in the boot.ini file. That will show you the drivers as they are being loaded, and if it hangs again, you should be able to see the last driver that's loading or causing the hang.