SATA drives

Help! I have been battling with a win 2k installation on a new system. Asus k8v se deluxe, 3200+ Athlon 64, 1 gig ram. A single HP dvd 420i, floppy and one SATA 120 seagate (serial ata) drive. Here's the problem. When I get to the installation of the win 2k disk, the progress stops when all the drivers are loaded, then " to install press enter" when you hit enter, " No hard drive is found." I have run the utility from seagate, it has run all the tests and the drive checks out. The motherboard cd isn't bootable, so I cant get the drivers from there. On the post it shows the drive, I have tried all the different connectors on the board, It has 2 sata connectors on the board that are listed as being controlled by a VIA chipset and a separate pair that use an onboard promise controller. Anybody out there run into this????? Thanks !!!!!!!!!!

 

The Promise SATA controller needs its own driver installed early on in the Windows install. You need that driver on a floppy, and watch when you first start your Windows install for a prompt asking you to hit F6 (?I think; watch for it & hit what it says, and you only see that for a few seconds). Stick in your floppy when it tells you to, and install will continue from there.

 

Just for a little more clarity, I believe Windows asks if you need to install third party RAID or SCSI drivers. It doesn't ask specifically for SATA drivers, but that is where you need to press F6 regardless.

 

Thanks for the replies,
The motherboard cd is not a bootable disk, it did ask for the f6 key but it was looking for drivers for a raid array, or scsi. I thought it would automatically see the drive, the seagate disk utilities see it, but windows 2k does not. I wonder if the install disk I have for 2k is too old. Thanks again.

 

Go with scsi,
SATA drivers need to be extracted from MOBO CD Unzipped and applied to floppy then during install you will be asked for 3rd party drivers, then you will stick in your floppy, follow instructions.
Dont forget to press F6 key is at begining of OS install , it flashes by pretty Quick, if you miss you will have to start over.


I believe Abit is the only MOBO manufacture that provides SATA drivers on floppy with thier mobo besides the mobo CD, all other's drivers must be extracted, too bad Asus dont do this for you.

Another note! you will need OS that is on bootable cd. ( mobo cd none are bootable, after windows is loaded then you can load all from mobo cd, it should auto run)
CD drive is first on boot order.
Once you have windows loaded make your SATA HDD first on boot order, you will boot faster.

 

If in bios boot order If SATA is not an option use scsi, would be same.

 

You Missed the point Lugztaz!

Example: My Ggiabyte mobo in bios boot order options, there is no option for SATA, you use SCSI that is the option to use to set boot secquence for my SATA HDD, ya follow?

Off hand I dont remember what options ASUS mobo have, if he has option for SATA he would use that, if not he would use SCSI!

I have a couple ASUS rigs I'll check latter what options are there, At the moment I have some programs running that I cant stop yet to check!

Hey Hawkfan, I have some more info or better instruction, I'll post latter, I got to run out for while.

 

First things.
you need to:
#1 set boot order in bios
first = CDROM
second = SCSI
third = Floppy
(after windows is loaded you can change boot order to what ever you want, I reccomend SCSI/CDROM/Floppy)
#2 you need SATA drivers ( extracted from mobo cd and unzipped & loaded onto formatted floppy disk)
#3 bootable windows CD ( I believe you posted W2K OS, if your trying to load windows from boot floppies I dont think it will work, it wont on socket A Gigabyte MOBO)

Insert windows CD, press F6 when appears{for third party drivers}
install will continue for abit, follow instruction insert floppy when requested, there is couple step's that require your imput, you also need to enable large disk support.
After windows loaded. then insert mobo cd & load all other drivers

If you have trouble locating sata drivers go to Asus web site can download them there, may also be setup info, if drivers are to big for floppy you may need to download to working PC's desktop extract/unzip and apply to floppy.
Hope that help's, any question please post.
Good Luck!