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More info?)
im running a a7n8x-e dlx (1013) with a 3200XP+ (400FSB) corsair ram (dual
channel at 400Mhz) and 2 western digital 74gb raptors in raid 0 mode. in
addition to this i have a 120gb western digital ide backup drive. the whole
rig works fine, so i think we need to iron out some issues to get your setup
working.
are you using a western digital ide hard drive by any chance? i recall some
issues I had installing my western digital ide drive in addition to a sata
raid set. ive also read in the group that there are some issues. from memory
you cant set it to cable select and my 120gb needed to be set to master and
not slave for it to work.
i think you might have installed your o/s onto the ide drive accidentally.
is the sata jumper enable on the motherboard?
make sure you havent got some type of raid set created in the raid utility.
if theres anything in the utility delete it.
all the bios versions of my a7n8x-e dlx had the option to boot to scsi which
my sata raid set was connected to. in my bios i have to select boot from
scsi, as there isnt a sata option from memory
are you also using the latest bios?
are you also using the latest sata drivers from silicon image? the readme in
the drivers zip details the correct method of installing a sata drive to a
clean or current install of windows.
my plan of attack would be:
1 - update your bios
2 - reset the bios
3 - download the latest silicon image sata drivers, put these on a floppy
and read the readme file.
4 - only attach your sata drive. disconnect the ide drive for now.
5 - set the bios to boot from a: then scsi
6 - only use the crucial stick of ram for now.
7 - install the sata drivers during the windows installation process as per
the readme.
8 - load windows
9 - install the ide drive when windows is up and running.
"S.O.S.D.D" <metomlinson@@@@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:llsre.1666405$Xk.128356@pd7tw3no...
> I'm only using one stick.
> I have everything in the bios set to default right now.
> Something new happened I connected my IDE hardrive back up. Now
everything
> is
> running fine, execpt for My SATA drive dosen't exist. I tried loading up
> Windows on my IDE drive, loading the SATA drivers f6 then S loading
> from floppy. At the point that it usually would show two drives my SATA
and
> IDE only the IDE shows up. ????
> In the bios of my old A7N8X deluxe it has a setting for the boot
> sequence for SATA or Scssi but this Bios dosn't have SATA even listed in
the
> bios.
>
>
> "FriskyD" <user@user.com> wrote in message
> news:42ae3204$0$87113$892e0abb@auth.newsreader.octanews.com...
> > hi
> >
> > i presume your not using 2 or three sticks togther so it isnt a dual
> > channel
> > issue. if you are using more than 1 stick post back so we can get a
> > correct
> > dual channel configuration.
> >
> > i think it may be a ram timing issue left over from the previous sticks
of
> > ram which is now conflicting with the subsequent stick.
> >
> > try going into the bios and using a default setting for the ram timing
> > speeds.
> >
> > if this doesnt work try loading all the default settings.
> >
> > if this doesnt work, i dont know. maybe the ram has gone bad due to
> > static?
> >
> > hope this helps.
> >
> > "S.O.S.D.D" <metomlinson@@@@shaw.ca> wrote in message
> > news:Gcqre.1668923$6l.1628021@pd7tw2no...
> >> I'm running A7N8X Deluxe with an AMD 3000 semperon
> >> Gforce vid card
> >> tried three ram strips
> >> Crucial 256 DDR 3200
> >> Generic 256 DDR 3200
> >> Kinston 256 DDR 3200
> >> When I put the Crusial in everything worked fine. I was able to load
the
> >> operating system
> >> on My SATA drive.
> >> It wasn't my Ram, so I had to replace it with something else. So I
tried
> > the
> >> Kingston.
> >> That's when things went to pieces. At first I couldn't get a post beep
at
> >> all. no matter what Ram I put in. I reset the bios (took battery out
set
> >> jumper .. waited etc.)
> >> Finally beeped but in the voice bootup it says system failed do to
CPU
> >> overclocking. I checked the Bios and it's loading at the default of
166.
> > The
> >> computer keeps on going and says booting form operating system then to
> > this
> >> point
> >>
> >> Pre-boot execution environment (PXE) v2.1
> >> (C) Copyright 1997-2000 Intel Corporation.
> >> PXE-E61 media test failure, check cable
> >> PXE-M0F Exiting PXE Rom
> >> Disk Boot Failure Insert system boot disk.
> >> where it stops
> >>
> >> think I should include let me know and I will do my best to include
them.
> >> any help would be appreciated TIA
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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