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Abit IB9 windows installation problem

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soja

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I'm attempting to install winxp on an IB9 on an IDE HD with an IDE optical. The IB9 doesn't support IDE off the bat so you have to use an including SATA-IDE bridge to use an IDE optical combined with a floppy with the IDE driver on it (created with the including abit CD) to load during the windows installation.

However, I'm running into a problem midway through installation where setup can't copy iteatapi.sys (from the IDE driver off a floppy). I thought it was going fine since setup found the driver off the floppy but it seems to not be able to copy it once I start the installation process. I've tried 5 different floppies thinking maybe the disks were messed up but no dice. Could it be the floppy drive itself? It's pretty old, I haven't used it for a year or 2 and pulled it out of the closet just for this motherboard.
 
There's a couple of people here with those so hopefully they'll help you.
However, I admit to being slightly confused - the board clearly has IDE connectors on the PCB so why would you need a SATA-IDE bridge (adapter) to run an IDE device?
Why doesn't it plug straight into the mobo IDE sockets?
 
I'm not sure I understand properly. I don't think you need a driver for the SATA bridge to work.

Here's what I would try.

1). See if your IDE drive works without any driver support right off of the IDE cable.
2). See if your IDE driver works without any drivers using the SATA bridge adapter
3). Try IDE drive with the Floppy drivers pressing F6 during WinXP install (no SATA bridge).

As I understand things, the SATA bridge was just so you wouldn't have to use the whole F6 thing with IDE drives (HDD or Optical).
 
Ah sorry guys, turned out it was just a bad slipstreamed cd :p. I made it a while ago and forgot I never used/tested it. But this board is odd because if you only have IDE drives you do have to use the bridge or else the optical isn't detected on bootup. Then during installation you have to F6 to install the driver off a floppy so the windows setup can see your IDE hard drives. Don't really know why Abit did this :confused:
 
I'm not sure either since pretty much only Abit needs the F6 for WinXP install even though it's the Jmicron controller on the Asus and Gigabyte boards also. Oh well. FWIW, when I used the Jmicron floppy with the F6, it worked perfectly on my AB9 :).
 
It's not a JMicron on the IB9 though but an ITE so maybe it's different?
 
BUFF said:
It's not a JMicron on the IB9 though but an ITE so maybe it's different?
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You're right. For the first time ever I didn't use ANY IDE drives so I didn't use the 3rd party controller.
 
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