ABIT NF7-S Ver 2 Serial ATA Problem

[Sandbaggermb]

I bought a Serial ATA Drive (maxtor), got it connected to the motherboard (NF7-S Ver 2) and the computer sees the drive, but when I go to install Windows 2000 professional, I get to the part where I hit F6 to install the drivers off the floppy and that goes fine. It installs and copies files then comes to a part where it says your computer will reboot in 15 seconds if you have a floppy in please remove it and when it reboots it goes into the process of reinstalling windows all over again. I have basically unplugged everything in my computer except the bare essencials to run. What I have running is the following.

Motherboard-ABIT NF7-S Ver 2
CPU-AMD XP 3200+ 400 bus
Memory-Geil Golden Dragon Series PC 3200 1G
Hard Drives-Maxtor 160G SATA, Seagate Barracuda IDE 60G and Maxtor IDE 250G (All 7200 RPM have the 60G and 250G unplugged right now for the purpose of trying to install windows)
Video Card-Powercolor ATI 9800 Pro 128mb
DVD Burner-Plextor 8X
CD Burner-Lite-on 52x24x52
Power Supply-600watt
CPU Cooler-Thermaltake Silent Boost

 

[Coyote]

I don't know myself, but perhaps it would be helpful to check out this guide for setting up SATA with win2K <A HREF="http://www.lvcoyote.com/" target="_new">http://www.lvcoyote.com/</A>

Barton 2500+
Abit NF7-S v 2.0
Maxtor 60GB ATA 133 7200RPM
512MB Corsair Twinx 3200LL
9600 Pro
Enermax Noisetaker 420 watts
Win98SE

 

[Sandbaggermb]

I did follow those instructions and my computer when it reboots goes back into the win2k install mode again where you have to hit F6 and so forth.

Sandbaggermb

 

[Boscorocks]

You have to take out the CDROM or go to the Bios and have it boot up to the hard drive first, not the CDROM, otherwise it will just keep trying to install again (at least this was my experience with XP)

 

[Sandbaggermb]

I thought I had tried that, but maybe I didn't. I usually wait until the computer tells me to take the CD out. I have install 2000 on so many computers and have never had this problem before.

 

[grafixmonkey]

It does sound like the computer is repeatedly booting from CD. Maybe you're used to having to hit a key to boot from CD, but that particular board just does it without waiting. Or maybe you need to change something in your boot order options, like choose SATA instead of IDE or something.

 

[blah]

don't sweat yeself, gete a normal board, Abit is an A bit (they don't say which one, so it is hard to figure out when there is no bit of a bit)

..this is very useful and helpful place for information...

 

[Sandbaggermb]

I solved the problem after 2 days of trying. For some reason it did not like the partition that I put in. As soon as I reformatted the drive with no partitions it worked fine. With me it is always some stupid little problem that is an easy fix, but time consuming trying to figure it out.

Sandbaggermb

ABIT NF7-S ver 2
XP 3200+
PC 3200 1G
Serial ATA 160G, IDE 250G, IDE 60G
ATI 9800Pro 128