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| Thread ID: 58649 | 2005-06-07 23:08:00 | My Dream Machine doesn't like Window XP | ahd8888 (184) | Press F1 |
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| 361989 | 2006-03-08 02:18:00 | Read gibler's posting, #25 in this thread. :cool: It seems that XP needs the SATA driver on a floppy. It provides an "F6" keystroke which lets you use this. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 361990 | 2006-03-08 05:05:00 | The motherboard should have had a SATA controller driver floppy disk come with it.. You need to stick this in after you press F6 when it asks you for a floppy. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 361991 | 2006-03-08 21:26:00 | Does it have to be Internal or can it be a USB Floppy? | Ryouba (8301) | ||
| 361992 | 2006-03-09 04:02:00 | I can't say as I've only ever used standard floppy drives for that. Windows XP probably loads a USB floppy drive driver... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 361993 | 2006-03-09 04:14:00 | Just try it. :D MS must be coming to terms with the disappearing floppy drive. Can you put up a CD with extra drivers during an installation? Surely they will make provision for that. Sooner or later. ;) Maybe the F6 menu will give CD as an option.? |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 361994 | 2006-03-10 17:18:00 | Frustrating... :( Ok, so yeah, drivers are the problem. Tried floppies, no prevail Tried to slipstream numerous times, no prevail What are the drivers that I need, exactly, for XP to identify a SATA-II WD Caviar 250GB hard disk on the Asus P5WD2 Premium motherboard?? If you could tell me that, I'd be the happiest man in Disneyland. (Not really in Disneyland.) <<EDIT>> XP setup was fine with USB floppies :P |
Ryouba (8301) | ||
| 361995 | 2006-03-10 17:51:00 | <<EDIT 2>> Fine with floppies = floppys detected, still havng trouble seeing that HD. | Ryouba (8301) | ||
| 361996 | 2006-03-10 21:20:00 | Try going to bios and switch the HD to PATA or to SATA RAID and back to SATA without RAID support. That worked for me. I had issues of the Windows CD actually detecting my HDD so it could not install the software. I also had issues that restart PC is able to detect HD but if you cold start it, it could not and you had to reset it or reboot it and it worked. I had a Gigabyte mobo. With a AMD Sempron chip. Maybe when it installed the files and the mobo drivers it was better (?). I can't recall that much. I also just had one HDD on SATA. |
Nomad (952) | ||
| 361997 | 2006-03-10 23:07:00 | You don't need a driver for the harddrive, you need a driver for the Sata controller. Download this (dlsvr03.asus.com), extract the contents to a folder - open the 'MakeDisk_SATA' folder and run the 'AsusSetup.exe' in that folder. (make sure you have a blank floppy disk handy) Then put that disk into the computer when you run windows setup (after pressing F6) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 361998 | 2006-05-12 07:41:00 | I am having the same stop error on my new computer as well . My situation is a tad bit different, but our computers are very similar (I know thats not important but whatever) I have an asus p5Ld2 with a 3 . 2 ghz pentium 4 64 bit processor with a 2mb l2 and 800 mghz fsb . either way, let me explain my story . I had a dell deminsion 8200 from about 2001 or 2002 . It had a 2 . 4 ghz with two 80 gb hard drives, yada yada yada . It had a really good graphics card for its time, and the fan on that seized and it overheated . Ever since like a year after I got that computer its been having problems . I would reformat regularly and still have problems and stuff . I eventually gave up and just tried to work around these problems . They were mostly little things, until last week . I was using my computer and it randomly restarted (again) except this time, after typing in my password in dos, and picking windows xp (over server 2003, which no longer works, I don't know why, I just figured it was my dell being stupid) the windows xp logo comes on as if its loading, and then it just restarts . Again and again, this is what it does, so I say, screw this, I'm tired of this stupid computer, lets just get a new one . So I buy a new cpu, case, video card, mobo, and ram . I put everything together using the two 80 gb hard drives, AND two other hard drives from an even older computer, along with 2 cd drives from each and 1 floppy drive from each, (hey, I got the room, why not?) for a total of 4 cd drives and 2 floppy drives . I go to start up and I get the same problem, so I go to reinstall windows on a drive that doesn't have all my data on it (since thats the point of reusing the drives, they have data on them I need . ) and it doesn't work . I tried it with each drive idividually hooked up to the primary plug with no other drives powered or connected . I have found that of the three drives, one of them does not regsiter and it appears toast (the 40 gb one) and the other three seem fine, although all three get the same error code while installing windows . It happenes when the computer is finished copying the files from the cd to the drive, and is about to start the install . It just stops . So since its the same problem as I had with the old set up, but each hard drive does not work, I think it is safe to assume that my computer hates me . The only things reused (including ide cables, power cables, everything) is my audigy 2 sound card, my network card, the 4 hard drives, 4 cd drives, and 2 floppy drives . It can't be the cd, floppy drives, or cd drives, because if it was any of those, why wouldn't/won't the computer start up with the operating system on the drives now . If it was a virus, why does it happen with all three drives? Im lost, any help? |
tstkl (8303) | ||
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