Abit IC7-Max3 & booting Windows from SATA1

Hello

I've just installed Windows XP SP1 and it went fine (it even booted from the
harddisk, when Windows needed to reboot during the installation).

But now Windows wont boot from my disk. It reads a bit from the harddisk,
and then just black screen and nothing more happens.

My setup:
Abit IC7-Max3
Pentium 4 3.0 (800 FSB)
2x512MB Corsair DDR4000
Western Digital WD2000JD (200GB Sata)
(my system has not been overclocked yet)

The WD2000JD is connected to the SATA1 connection on the motherboard.

Also, I've connected a DVD reader and a DVD writer on IDE1 slave and IDE2
slave.

When I connect the disk to SATA3, it boots up fine. But connecting it to
SATA1 should also work, since SATA3-6 is just an "addon" Abit put on the
motherboard, so SATA1 should also boot, since it's build in to the chipset.

I've updates the bios to the newest version, and ran a Western Digital test
program and it reported no errors.

Any suggestions?

One more question - I prefer connecting my harddisk to SATA1, because it
wont take up bandwidth on the PCI bus, and I've read some tests saying that
the ICH5 sata controller is faster than the SiliconImage controller, when
not using RAID. Is that correct?

Thanks

/Jesper

there are posts on the Abit forums on this topic that might make good
reading. there is no question that this setup will work, it is just a
matter of proper bios configuration in most cases.

how do you have the Intel ICH5R SATA controller configured in the bios? is
the raid mode enabled (this will work even if not running a raid) and if so,
is the raid ROM enabled also?

to configure the system with raid mode enabled, you would need to have
installed the floppy-based driver via F6 during the early stages of the
install. also, it is important to be flashed to the newest bios as there
were issues in the Intel SATA bios (assuming it is even enabled) in the
earlier revisions.

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"Jesper Barrit" <midi DeleteThis @NOSPAMstofanet.dk> wrote in message
news:4056cd59$0$5932$ba624c82@nntp03.dk.telia.net...
 > Hello
 >
 > I've just installed Windows XP SP1 and it went fine (it even booted from
the
 > harddisk, when Windows needed to reboot during the installation).
 >
 > But now Windows wont boot from my disk. It reads a bit from the harddisk,
 > and then just black screen and nothing more happens.
 >
 > My setup:
 > Abit IC7-Max3
 > Pentium 4 3.0 (800 FSB)
 > 2x512MB Corsair DDR4000
 > Western Digital WD2000JD (200GB Sata)
 > (my system has not been overclocked yet)
 >
 > The WD2000JD is connected to the SATA1 connection on the motherboard.
 >
 > Also, I've connected a DVD reader and a DVD writer on IDE1 slave and IDE2
 > slave.
 >
 > When I connect the disk to SATA3, it boots up fine. But connecting it to
 > SATA1 should also work, since SATA3-6 is just an "addon" Abit put on the
 > motherboard, so SATA1 should also boot, since it's build in to the
chipset.
 >
 > I've updates the bios to the newest version, and ran a Western Digital
test
 > program and it reported no errors.
 >
 > Any suggestions?
 >
 > One more question - I prefer connecting my harddisk to SATA1, because it
 > wont take up bandwidth on the PCI bus, and I've read some tests saying
that
 > the ICH5 sata controller is faster than the SiliconImage controller, when
 > not using RAID. Is that correct?
 >
 > Thanks
 >
 > /Jesper
 >
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