problem with ASUS MB

[ckelly14]

After the unexpected death of my old MB, I have upgraded to an Athlon 64 3000+ (939) and an Asus A8V deluxe MB. I attempted to use my old Windows XP installation but, not suprisingly, received a "blue screen" error. I attempted to reinstall Windows XP but the installation would hang up during the "inspecting your drive configuration" window (early in the process). I thought this was a Bios issue but upgrading to version 1008 did not help. I disabled every other controller I was not using (RAID/ATA,etc) and attempted the install on two seperate IDE hard drives but it keeps hanging. I only have my video card (Radeon 9800 pro) and a keyboard installed.

Any information would be helpful. I read a few posts about similar problems with the Promise controller but these hard discs are plain vanilla IDE drives.

 

[snotling]

what models of HD are you using and wich one is master/slave?

BIOSTAR M7NCG Athlon XP 2400+
ATI RADEON 9600SE
Adaptec 29160 - Ultra160 SCSI
2 x Quantum Atlas 10K3 18 WLS
WDC WD1200JB-00CRA1
Toshiba 8x4x12x DVD±RW
AOpen Micro-ATX Desktop 200W

 

[ckelly14]

Both are Maxtor. Master is 36 Gig with windows XP and the 40 Gig is the Slave. I have tried all combo's without success.

 

[endyen]

It could be a compatability problem (xp didn't like my msi vivo card, with a sis chipset), but first place to look would be memtest86.

 

[Worf101]

I have the exact same problem with the exact same board. I wound up having to reformat the HD's and start from scratch. Also are you trying to do a RAID array?

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