A7n8X & SATA

[eldondre]

Alright, I've got a different problem. I just got Seagate's SATA drive and want to install it with this Asus board. No other hdd's, clean install. After figuring out how to get it to recognize the drive (F6 to load new drivers for RAID) and setting it to boot to SCSI, I am having trouble loading XP Pro. Basically, it has one of two problems. When it is copying files to the hdd it has trouble doing so (gives you the message that certain files could not be copied with the option to skip). If you skip, then it never finishes. Different error messages come up but it seems to like to say that my board is nto ACPI compliant. When I press F7 in setup to load the STandard ACPI software it won't copy files at all. I had talked to a guy at Best Buy who told me I needed to load newer drivers and he had mentioned something about fixing an ACPI issue but I hadn;t given it much thought at the time. Does anybody have an idea of what I need to do? BTW, I have only one drive in the config. IS this RAID only? Do I need two drives?

 

[rebturtle]

It will run a single SATA drive, I've done it. I haven't however, booted the OS from SATA yet. I wish I could help you more, but at least you know you don't have to buy another hard drive (yet). Anybody else? Im interested in this one too, since I'm contemplating getting a Raptor to be my C drive.

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[eldondre]

BIOS Rev. 1003. Drivers for XP dated 4/24/03. Error message is no consistenly that my mobo is not ACPI compliant. I have no idea how to proceed from here. I do know that it can be fixed.