Gigabyte GA-8KNXP and SATA - XP Set Up Fails

OK, more info I forgot to relate, and here it is:

I DLed and extracted the Sata drivers from Gigabytes web site. I tried
pressing F6 and inserting a floppy. ALthough setup sees the drivers and says
it will load them, set up still loops back to the beginning. I also tried
slipstreaming the drivers into XP SP2, same results.

Thanks again,
Hark

"Harkhof" <hark RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:JGJ3h.16001$ca2.3613@newsfe14.lga...
> Hello,
> I decided to convert the drives in one of my machines to SATA. I pulled
> all (4) drives out of the machine and placed one SATA drive on SATA0_SB.
> I then attempted to Install XP SP2. It seems to do fine, goes through the
> 'copying files to HD' process, but when it reboots, it begins the process
> alll over again, asking me to agree to the license and choose a partition.
> After choosing the partition, set up detects the windows directory it
> previously installed. It makes little difference whether I allow it to
> overwrite it or re-format it, the loop continues. Again, I have not
> installed any other drives in the machine yet.
>
> I had the controller in the BIOS set to 'Manual', mapping the controller
> to SATA0 & SATA1_SB.
> The only way I can get set up to complete is by setting it to 'Auto',
> which maps it to the Primary IDE. Is this less than optimal? Why will it
> not work when mapped to SATA? Is there a way (or a need) to force it?
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
> John
>
> Gigabyte GA-8KNXP
> 3ghz P4
> 1GB Corsair RAM (Value)/running @dual channel
> Antec True 430 watt PSU
 >> Stay informed about: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP and SATA - XP Set Up Fails 

If SATA IDE mode will not work you may also try the following:
Place no drives on IDE1
Place only optical devices on IDE2
Set SATA to RAID (RAID Ready mode - single hard drive)
-Do nothing with RAID bios at boot for single drive
-Can also use RAID 0 (I recommend RAID 0 for system with third SATA for
data but a lot of opinions on this) or RAID 1 if desired
Do not re-map drives, simply set to RAID and enable RAID ROM (SATA will
be IDE3 of similar by default)
Set HD propriety for boot
Use F6 install for RAID driver
see if this works?

Does everything work fine with old IDE drives? Good question to rule-out
bios and other problems already noted. There is a history of bad
caps with this board; have discarded many. This is a less likely
consideration so do not worry about this first.

Good luck

Harkhof wrote:
> OK, more info I forgot to relate, and here it is:
>
> I DLed and extracted the Sata drivers from Gigabytes web site. I tried
> pressing F6 and inserting a floppy. ALthough setup sees the drivers and
> says it will load them, set up still loops back to the beginning. I also
> tried slipstreaming the drivers into XP SP2, same results.
>
> Thanks again,
> Hark
>
> "Harkhof" <hark.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:JGJ3h.16001$ca2.3613@newsfe14.lga...
>> Hello,
>> I decided to convert the drives in one of my machines to SATA. I
>> pulled all (4) drives out of the machine and placed one SATA drive on
>> SATA0_SB. I then attempted to Install XP SP2. It seems to do fine,
>> goes through the 'copying files to HD' process, but when it reboots,
>> it begins the process alll over again, asking me to agree to the
>> license and choose a partition. After choosing the partition, set up
>> detects the windows directory it previously installed. It makes little
>> difference whether I allow it to overwrite it or re-format it, the
>> loop continues. Again, I have not installed any other drives in the
>> machine yet.
>>
>> I had the controller in the BIOS set to 'Manual', mapping the
>> controller to SATA0 & SATA1_SB.
>> The only way I can get set up to complete is by setting it to 'Auto',
>> which maps it to the Primary IDE. Is this less than optimal? Why will
>> it not work when mapped to SATA? Is there a way (or a need) to force it?
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas,
>> John
>>
>> Gigabyte GA-8KNXP
>> 3ghz P4
>> 1GB Corsair RAM (Value)/running @dual channel
>> Antec True 430 watt PSU
>
 >> Stay informed about: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP and SATA - XP Set Up Fails 

If SATA IDE mode will not work you may also try the following:
Place no drives on IDE1
Place only optical devices on IDE2
Set SATA to RAID (RAID Ready mode - single hard drive)
-Do nothing with RAID bios at boot for single drive
-Can also use RAID 0 (I recommend RAID 0 for system with third SATA for
data but a lot of opinions on this) or RAID 1 if desired
Do not re-map drives, simply set to RAID and enable RAID ROM (SATA will
be IDE3 of similar by default)
Set HD priority for boot
Use F6 install for RAID driver
see if this works?

Does everything work fine with old IDE drives? Good question to rule-out
bios and other problems already mentioned. There is a history of
bad caps with this board. This is less likely so do not worry about this
first.

Good luck

Harkhof wrote:
> OK, more info I forgot to relate, and here it is:
>
> I DLed and extracted the Sata drivers from Gigabytes web site. I tried
> pressing F6 and inserting a floppy. ALthough setup sees the drivers and
> says it will load them, set up still loops back to the beginning. I also
> tried slipstreaming the drivers into XP SP2, same results.
>
> Thanks again,
> Hark
>
> "Harkhof" <hark.RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:JGJ3h.16001$ca2.3613@newsfe14.lga...
>> Hello,
>> I decided to convert the drives in one of my machines to SATA. I
>> pulled all (4) drives out of the machine and placed one SATA drive on
>> SATA0_SB. I then attempted to Install XP SP2. It seems to do fine,
>> goes through the 'copying files to HD' process, but when it reboots,
>> it begins the process alll over again, asking me to agree to the
>> license and choose a partition. After choosing the partition, set up
>> detects the windows directory it previously installed. It makes little
>> difference whether I allow it to overwrite it or re-format it, the
>> loop continues. Again, I have not installed any other drives in the
>> machine yet.
>>
>> I had the controller in the BIOS set to 'Manual', mapping the
>> controller to SATA0 & SATA1_SB.
>> The only way I can get set up to complete is by setting it to 'Auto',
>> which maps it to the Primary IDE. Is this less than optimal? Why will
>> it not work when mapped to SATA? Is there a way (or a need) to force it?
>>
>> Thanks for any ideas,
>> John
>>
>> Gigabyte GA-8KNXP
>> 3ghz P4
>> 1GB Corsair RAM (Value)/running @dual channel
>> Antec True 430 watt PSU
>
 >> Stay informed about: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP and SATA - XP Set Up Fails 

"Zivorad" <Noreply DeleteThis @nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:7uKdnWmSs90UsMzYnZ2dnUVZ_r6dnZ2d@comcast.com...
> If SATA IDE mode will not work you may also try the following:
> Place no drives on IDE1
> Place only optical devices on IDE2
> Set SATA to RAID (RAID Ready mode - single hard drive)
> -Do nothing with RAID bios at boot for single drive
> -Can also use RAID 0 (I recommend RAID 0 for system with third SATA for
> data but a lot of opinions on this) or RAID 1 if desired
> Do not re-map drives, simply set to RAID and enable RAID ROM (SATA will be
> IDE3 of similar by default)
> Set HD priority for boot
> Use F6 install for RAID driver
> see if this works?
>
> Does everything work fine with old IDE drives? Good question to rule-out
> bios and other problems already mentioned. There is a history of bad caps
> with this board. This is less likely so do not worry about this first.

Hi Zivorad. Thanks for the response. The system is running OK with SATA0 &
SATA1_SB auto mapped to primary IDE ( I discovered early on that the only
way to make this work [at least here] is to leave the Primary IDE channel
empty, but turned on in the BIOS). I also have only a DVDRW on the
secondary, However, I am able to attach an IDE drive to the secondary as
well. In fact, in order to copy data off the IDE drives, I set the DVDRW to
slave and whatever drive I was copying from as master. This worked well, and
I was able to copy the data from all 4 IDE drives.

My current set up is:

SATA0_SB - 320GB seagate
SATA1_SB - 400GB seagate
SATA0_SII - 250GB seagate

IDE 1 - empty but active with SATA0 &1_SB mapped
IDE 2 - DVDRW (master) (with the ability to set as slave to accomodate an
IDE HD)

The problem was figuring all of this out. Nothing in the manual and your
post is the first that discussed it intelligently (unfortunately, not in
time to save me the time...). I had posts in XP.General and a few hardware
groups, including .storage.

I guess I'm stuck with this config, which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Thanks again,
Hark



> Good luck
>
> Harkhof wrote:
>> OK, more info I forgot to relate, and here it is:
>>
>> I DLed and extracted the Sata drivers from Gigabytes web site. I tried
>> pressing F6 and inserting a floppy. ALthough setup sees the drivers and
>> says it will load them, set up still loops back to the beginning. I also
>> tried slipstreaming the drivers into XP SP2, same results.
>>
>> Thanks again,
>> Hark
>>
>> "Harkhof" <hark DeleteThis @yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:JGJ3h.16001$ca2.3613@newsfe14.lga...
>>> Hello,
>>> I decided to convert the drives in one of my machines to SATA. I pulled
>>> all (4) drives out of the machine and placed one SATA drive on SATA0_SB.
>>> I then attempted to Install XP SP2. It seems to do fine, goes through
>>> the 'copying files to HD' process, but when it reboots, it begins the
>>> process alll over again, asking me to agree to the license and choose a
>>> partition. After choosing the partition, set up detects the windows
>>> directory it previously installed. It makes little difference whether I
>>> allow it to overwrite it or re-format it, the loop continues. Again, I
>>> have not installed any other drives in the machine yet.
>>>
>>> I had the controller in the BIOS set to 'Manual', mapping the controller
>>> to SATA0 & SATA1_SB.
>>> The only way I can get set up to complete is by setting it to 'Auto',
>>> which maps it to the Primary IDE. Is this less than optimal? Why will it
>>> not work when mapped to SATA? Is there a way (or a need) to force it?
>>>
>>> Thanks for any ideas,
>>> John
>>>
>>> Gigabyte GA-8KNXP
>>> 3ghz P4
>>> 1GB Corsair RAM (Value)/running @dual channel
>>> Antec True 430 watt PSU
>>
 >> Stay informed about: Gigabyte GA-8KNXP and SATA - XP Set Up Fails