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SATA problems. Help, PLEASE!

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Psytech

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Me and my Dad are putting together his new system. It has a spiffy 200 gig Western Digital SATA drive and an Asus a7n8x-e deluxe motherboard. First, the basics:

SATA is enabled on the motherboard (jumper).
The BIOS has been updated to the latest version (1008).
There is no option in BIOS relating directly to SATA.
The second boot device (after CDROM) has been set to SCSI.

Now, the problem. We are trying to install Windows XP (bootable CD). However, it claims it could not find a hard-drive to install Windows onto. The hard drive does not show up in BIOS, but it is recognised correctly by a raid controller/configuration utility that shows up immediately afterwards.

Do I need to install a third party raid driver? I tried the only one I could find on the ASUS site, but the Windows XP CD claimed it couldn't find anything useful on either of the diskettes I placed it on.

What do I do? Please? Anybody?
Thanks in advance guys.

[Edit: Just fired up FDISK, it recognises that the drive exists and we're partitioning it right now just for the hell of it.]
 
You have to make a SATA drive floppy and when you start the XP load you have to hit the F6 key to load third party drivers and then when it asks for the disk to specify the driver. put disk in pick which OS then boom you on your way. I hope I explained it right.

I just copied the SATA drivers from cd if you have another system available.
 
Most motherboards like that should have come with a labelled floppy for the SATA controllers. When XP asks for you to hit F6 to load another controller....do it and then stick that floppy in.
 
You will have to make a bootable floppy either copy from the mb cd or download from asus file names are readme txt, si3112r.inf, si3112r.mpd, si3112r.sys, siisupp.vxd, siwinacc.sys, txt setup.oem you may not have the siwinacc.sys on your mb cd that is a revision I think if you download it from asus when it says third party drivers hit f6 then in a sec you will have to hit s put in your floppy and hit enter
 
Originally posted by wingmaster
readme txt, si3112r.inf, si3112r.mpd, si3112r.sys, siisupp.vxd, siwinacc.sys, txt setup.oem you may not have the siwinacc.sys on your mb cd that is a revision
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