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dro

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 10:40 am
Post subject: Can't boot from SATA II drive on a A8N-Sli Premium MB rev. 1006
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I am not able to boot from my Western Digital 250 GB 16 MB cache SATA
II on a A8N-sli Premium mother board with Award 1006 Bios revision. I
have no trouble booting from a Western Digital 160 GB SATA 150 MB/s
drive. When I got the new drive I first initialized the drive from
Windows and installed partitions. I was then able to store files on the
drive. Then using Drive Image 2002 I made an image of my working XP
operating system on the new drive. Normally I could boot up from this
image, as I had done on other SATA drives before, but now at the boot
it halted with the message Error loading the operating system.

Next, I used my XP CD to build a new OS on the SATA II drive. I
selected to reformat the partition and used F6 to install NVidia SATA
drivers from my ASUS CD. When all the Windows files have been copied,
the computer needs to reboot to start Windows for the first time. But
the exact same thing happens at the boot: Error loading operating
system. Has anybody out there found the cure for this problem? I am not
using a RAID set, I only want to boot from the faster drive. Please
help. Would be greatly!!!! appreciated. I have been stuck with this
problem for about a week with no solution that works yet.

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(Msg. 2) Posted: Sat Apr 15, 2006 3:28 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't boot from SATA II drive on a A8N-Sli Premium MB rev. 1006 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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If you have both stat drives still installed - you have to go into bios and
select the sata drive you want it to boot from.

"dro" <olson.DeleteThis@towson.edu> wrote in message
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>I am not able to boot from my Western Digital 250 GB 16 MB cache SATA
> II on a A8N-sli Premium mother board with Award 1006 Bios revision. I
> have no trouble booting from a Western Digital 160 GB SATA 150 MB/s
> drive. When I got the new drive I first initialized the drive from
> Windows and installed partitions. I was then able to store files on the
> drive. Then using Drive Image 2002 I made an image of my working XP
> operating system on the new drive. Normally I could boot up from this
> image, as I had done on other SATA drives before, but now at the boot
> it halted with the message Error loading the operating system.
>
> Next, I used my XP CD to build a new OS on the SATA II drive. I
> selected to reformat the partition and used F6 to install NVidia SATA
> drivers from my ASUS CD. When all the Windows files have been copied,
> the computer needs to reboot to start Windows for the first time. But
> the exact same thing happens at the boot: Error loading operating
> system. Has anybody out there found the cure for this problem? I am not
> using a RAID set, I only want to boot from the faster drive. Please
> help. Would be greatly!!!! appreciated. I have been stuck with this
> problem for about a week with no solution that works yet.
>

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(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 2:06 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't boot from SATA II drive on a A8N-Sli Premium MB rev. 1006 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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I have no ide drives installed and I disabled the ide0 port. I only
have one SATA drive installed at one time (and only on the SATA1 port).
If I use the WD1600 SATA drive it will boot. If I replace this drive
with the WD 250G SATA II drive it will not boot. Both have Windows XP
installed. There are no other differences I can tell.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:11 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't boot from SATA II drive on a A8N-Sli Premium MB rev. 1006 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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You need to set the jumper on the Sata2 Drive to run at Sata 1 speed. It
looks like your motherboard does not support Sata2.

"dro" <olson DeleteThis @towson.edu> wrote in message
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>I have no ide drives installed and I disabled the ide0 port. I only
> have one SATA drive installed at one time (and only on the SATA1 port).
> If I use the WD1600 SATA drive it will boot. If I replace this drive
> with the WD 250G SATA II drive it will not boot. Both have Windows XP
> installed. There are no other differences I can tell.
>
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RonK

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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sun Apr 16, 2006 5:13 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't boot from SATA II drive on a A8N-Sli Premium MB rev. 1006 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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I just noticed that you are using the A8N-sli Premium MB. It does support
sata2 but I think you need to update your bios first.

"RonK" <hereiam DeleteThis @now.com> wrote in message
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> You need to set the jumper on the Sata2 Drive to run at Sata 1 speed. It
> looks like your motherboard does not support Sata2.
>
> "dro" <olson DeleteThis @towson.edu> wrote in message
> news:1145221570.253537.289870@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>>I have no ide drives installed and I disabled the ide0 port. I only
>> have one SATA drive installed at one time (and only on the SATA1 port).
>> If I use the WD1600 SATA drive it will boot. If I replace this drive
>> with the WD 250G SATA II drive it will not boot. Both have Windows XP
>> installed. There are no other differences I can tell.
>>
>
>
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:10 am
Post subject: Re: Can't boot from SATA II drive on a A8N-Sli Premium MB rev. 1006 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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I looked at ASUS web site. The latest non-beta driver is revision 1009.
I have revision 1006 on my board. Is it safe to update the Bios? I have
been reluctant to do this because of all the warnings about the board
becoming unusable if a problem occurs during the flash. They didn't say
that the newer revisions affected use of SATA II drives; do you think
it likely it will solve my problem? I only have one SATA II drive so I
can't try swapping it out. I also can't make a raid 0 set so I don't
know if that might help the boot problem.

By the way, I did one time have a raid 0 set on two SATA drives but I
was afraid that it doubled the risk of data loss and that if something
happened to one of the hard drives I might lose my data from both
drives. Therefore, I thought it safer to have a single hard drive. But
now I have this boot problem, I am wondering if I need to go back to
the raid 0 solution?
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 11:49 am
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dro wrote:
> I looked at ASUS web site. The latest non-beta driver is revision 1009.
> I have revision 1006 on my board. Is it safe to update the Bios? I have
> been reluctant to do this because of all the warnings about the board
> becoming unusable if a problem occurs during the flash. They didn't say
> that the newer revisions affected use of SATA II drives; do you think
> it likely it will solve my problem? I only have one SATA II drive so I
> can't try swapping it out. I also can't make a raid 0 set so I don't
> know if that might help the boot problem.
>
> By the way, I did one time have a raid 0 set on two SATA drives but I
> was afraid that it doubled the risk of data loss and that if something
> happened to one of the hard drives I might lose my data from both
> drives. Therefore, I thought it safer to have a single hard drive. But
> now I have this boot problem, I am wondering if I need to go back to
> the raid 0 solution?
>

I'm using version 1011-006 (beta) without any problems and flashing was
easy. Just take care that you follow instructions and don't flash during
a thunderstorm etc.
Whether it will fix your problem, I don't know.

Ray
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2006 5:55 pm
Post subject: Re: Can't boot from SATA II drive on a A8N-Sli Premium MB rev. 1006 [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On my (hehe) AN8SLI Deluxe the Nvidia SATA part of the A8N supports SATA2,
not sure about the Silicon part. (4+4 connectors)


"RonK" <hereiam.RemoveThis@now.com> escribió en el mensaje
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> You need to set the jumper on the Sata2 Drive to run at Sata 1 speed. It
> looks like your motherboard does not support Sata2.
>
> "dro" <olson.RemoveThis@towson.edu> wrote in message
> news:1145221570.253537.289870@e56g2000cwe.googlegroups.com...
>>I have no ide drives installed and I disabled the ide0 port. I only
>> have one SATA drive installed at one time (and only on the SATA1 port).
>> If I use the WD1600 SATA drive it will boot. If I replace this drive
>> with the WD 250G SATA II drive it will not boot. Both have Windows XP
>> installed. There are no other differences I can tell.
>>
>
>
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:46 am
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Well I finally got my A8n-sli premium MB to boot from the SATA II WD
250 GB hard drive!!! Thanks to all who helped me. It took about three
weeks of wrestling with it to finally solve my problem. I did NOT need
to update my Bios after all. I have revision 1006 and it works fine.
The problem was that when I was using AUTO in the Bios, it did not
properly recognize the new hard drive geometry. I needed to go into
Bios and manually select LARGE. This forced the motherboard to
correctly identify the hard drive. Then I needed to reload XP. In the
meantime, thanks to suggestions from forums, I made a slipstream CD
which included the SP2 with my copy of Windows XP. I still pressed F6
and loaded the NVidia RAID drivers as before, but it all went very
slick, and booted up no problem!!!

I now have a new problem, however. My Drive Image 2002 is not able to
recognize the new geometry on the hard drive so I can't make a backup
image of the OS anymore. Does anyone have a suggestion on some newer
imaging software that might work with this new geometry. Thanks for any
suggestions you might have. And again thanks so much for all who are
available to help in the many battles necessary to get computers to
function properly. Still, it is amazing, as complicated as it all is,
that it works at all!!!

Harry (dro)
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 11:55 am
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I use Ghost (10 or 9).
Rather 9 than 10. I could not restore the system drive (SATA)
with 10. I would not fully boot. Symantec support
told me it was NOT compatible with AMD X2 processors.

I now backup with 10 and restore with 9.

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"dro" <olson.DeleteThis@towson.edu> a écrit dans le message de news:
1145976398.858436.163050.DeleteThis@u72g2000cwu.googlegroups.com...
> Well I finally got my A8n-sli premium MB to boot from the SATA II WD
> 250 GB hard drive!!! Thanks to all who helped me. It took about three
> weeks of wrestling with it to finally solve my problem. I did NOT need
> to update my Bios after all. I have revision 1006 and it works fine.
> The problem was that when I was using AUTO in the Bios, it did not
> properly recognize the new hard drive geometry. I needed to go into
> Bios and manually select LARGE. This forced the motherboard to
> correctly identify the hard drive. Then I needed to reload XP. In the
> meantime, thanks to suggestions from forums, I made a slipstream CD
> which included the SP2 with my copy of Windows XP. I still pressed F6
> and loaded the NVidia RAID drivers as before, but it all went very
> slick, and booted up no problem!!!
>
> I now have a new problem, however. My Drive Image 2002 is not able to
> recognize the new geometry on the hard drive so I can't make a backup
> image of the OS anymore. Does anyone have a suggestion on some newer
> imaging software that might work with this new geometry. Thanks for any
> suggestions you might have. And again thanks so much for all who are
> available to help in the many battles necessary to get computers to
> function properly. Still, it is amazing, as complicated as it all is,
> that it works at all!!!
>
> Harry (dro)
>
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