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"Bob I" <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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| If the drive does not show up in the BIOS or at POST you have a hardware
| problem, nothing at all to do with Windows XP or the drivers, suggest
| contacting Gigabyte or the vendor you got the board from and start there.
Hi Bob -
He's setting up his BIOS incorrectly. The original poster took this to
private email with me and we resolved it. There is no hardware error --
just a very confusing to set up BIOS.
Dave --
Your message did not sync to my ISPs news server. I am stepping on top of
Bob's reply to you in order to post the resolution the original poster and I
worked out in private email.
The BIOS defaults are causing your problem as the default assumption is that
when you use the SATA controllers you will be defining a RAID array. It is
possible to use the SATA controllers to emulate an IDE environment, but you
have to modify the defaults.
First, boot your system and press DEL at the POST screen to get into the
setup screens.
Select the LOAD OPTIMISED DEFAULTS option.
Go into the ADVANCED BIOS FEATURES menu:
.. Press Enter at the Hard Disk Boot Priority item. In the sub-menu, select
Bootable Add-in Cards. You select this item because the Award BIOS is not
aware that the SATA controller on your motherboard is built-in -- the
assumption the folks at Phoenix/Award built into the default BIOS code was
that anything SATA would be an add-in card. We'll get to how to define your
SATA shortly.
.. Set First Boot Device to Floppy
.. Set Second Boot Device to CD-ROM
.. Set Third Boot Device to Hard Disk
.. Set Boot Up Floppy Seek to Enabled
Go into the INTEGRATED PERIPHERALS menu:
.. Set On-Chip IDE Channel 0 to Disabled -- this will free system resources
if you don't have any IDE drives connected to the system (this is not the
BIOS default)
.. Set On-Chip IDE Channel 1 to Disabled -- same reason
.. Set IDE SATA/RAID Function to Disabled (this is not the BIOS defailt)
.. Set IDE Primary Master RAID and IDE Primary Slave RAID to Disabled (this
is not the system default)
.. Set IDE Secondary Master RAID and IDE Secondary Slave RAID to Disabled
(this is not the system default)
.. Set Serial-ATA 1 to Enabled
.. Set SATA 1 Primary RAID and SATA 1 Secondary RAID to Disabled (this is not
the system default)
.. Set Serial-ATA 2 to Enabled
.. Set SATA 2 Primary RAID and SATA-2 Secondary RAID to Disabled (this is not
the system default)
.. Enable or Disable the rest of the on-board peripherals as you intend to
use them
Exit back to the main menu and choose the item to Save and Exit Setup
Your system will reboot and the main POST screen will display. You'll also
see your hard drive (you will have probably never seen this before as your
BIOS will now recognise your hard drive connected to one of the SATA
controller headers).
After a moment you'll see a NVIDIA RAID message. Press F10 at this prompt
to go into the RAID setup screen.
Just look at the screen... do not change anything because we are not
defining a RAID array... we're just looking to ensure your disk is properly
detected. If you see your disk on the left side of the screen, put your
Windows XP CD in the CD-ROM drive and then press ESC to exit the screen to
continue booting.
Your Windows XP CD should now boot (you may get a message to press any key
to boot from CD-ROM ... if so, do so).
When in your XP Setup, be certain to press F6 when prompted for RAID/SATA
drivers and also ensure that the SATA driver diskette you got with the
motherboard is in the floppy drive.
Hopefully this covers everything.
Jef
|
| Saltaholicwm wrote:
|
| > Dear Jef,
| >
| > I have been having the EXACT same problems that David has beenhaving.
| > I have the same mother board (Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9) and Ibought a 74 GB
| > WD 10000 RPM SATA Raptor to go along with it. Theentire computer is
| > brand new and I'm installing the SATA drive as theboot drive. I have
| > literally spent 8 hours working on thisproblem without stopping and
| > I've done everything from flashing bios tothe latest upgrade to
| > unplugging other drives to see if that has anyeffect.
| >
| > NO WHERE in bios does my SATA drive register. Is thatnormal? Usually
| > with the IDE drives they registered by showingtheir capacity, etc.
| > Also, I have changed all enable/disablesetting concerning ALL hard
| > drives and nothing has changed.
| >
| > I have hit F6 during Win2k prelaunch and installed drivers (at least
| > 4times now, changing various things each time) but to no avail. After
| > formatting and installing, the computer restarts, and then givesme the
| > error "Couldn't open boot partition to check for signature".
| >
| > I have attempted to change the "Hard Disk Boot Priority" as
| > yousuggested to David, but it only has one item to choose from on
| > thesubmenu "1. Bootable Add-in Cards". There is nothing elsethere. I
| > have even attempted to hit + and - to see if it justscrolled through a
| > list in one box, but that didn't work. It onlygives me that 1 choice.
| >
| > I've download FDisk and DOS Boot disk in order to analyze what
| > thispartition problem might be. I haven't yet worked with them yetbut
| > that will be my next step. Do you have any othersuggestions? This is
| > becoming a real pain in the butt!
| >
| > Thanks kindly,
| > Dave
| >
| >
| >
|
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