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Thread ID: 37979	2003-09-23 14:46:00	ASUS P4G8X SATA Boot-up	AJ Hunter (4617)	Press F1

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177413	2003-09-23 14:46:00	How do you persuade an ASUS P4G8X deluxe motherboard to boot up using a Seagate 120Gbyte SATA drive? My primary Windows 2000 boot disk, until it became unreliable, was an IBM 60Gbyte IDE drive. I replaced it with the Seagate. I now have 2 of these SATA 120Gbyte drives plugged in and working. The Seagate Serial ATA setup says to change the BIOS boot -up from the IDE drive to the new SATA, but there is no procedure for this in the ASUS manual, or on the slick but worthless ASUS website. The isolated references on the web make almost no sense. Any advice gratefully accepted. cheers AJ	AJ Hunter (4617)
177414	2003-09-23 19:05:00	Well usually to get into the BIOS, u press DELETE as soon as u boot up AJ. The MODEL of the SATA should appear in the BIOS under the boot menu You pick the one that has the OS on it, save the settings and reboot. Then Windows should load. Thats if you goto the IDE section of the BIOS first (so, the BIOS picks up BOTH SATA's are there). Also, did your mobo come with a CD? If you want to use raid, the drivers are on it. In a folder called IAAA or something. A program called makedisk.exe. You need one floppy I think for this. The only thing with SATA (So, I found out (I use one on a non-deluxe version of the P4P800). If you dont format whilst installing XP (and if you dont use Makedisk (I didnt know whether to use this, as I only have 1 SATA and the mobo only supports RAID 0 NOT 0 and 1). I had to format a normal IDE then format the SATA and install XP on it as well, before Windows could see the thing! Then I had to boot from normal IDE, go into Windows, and then reformat the SATA. Also, you need SP1 (if you use XP) for it to function properly. As it looks like SATA is native for XP, BUT not for 98 / previous versions of Windows.	Spacemannz (808)
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