I am building a new system with Asus P5NSLI, Intel Core 2 Duo cpu, Corsair CM2X512-5400C4 dual channel memory and one Seagate Baracuda
320 GB SATA hard drive.
Someone said it could be memory incompatibality but I ram memtest for 8 hours and never got any errors.
I am using XP Home SP2b. When I try to install XP it sees the hard drive, detects it is 305GB and formats it. Then it starts to copy files from the
CD. All works fine until the install tries to boot from the HD to finsih the installation. It does not find the drive and just tries to re-install XP again
unless I change the boot order to the HD. When I do that it just hangs.
I read some posts here about installing the raid drivers. I used MakeDisk and made a NIVIDIA Raid 32 bit SATA RAID Driver. I assume this is the
right driver since I am installing a 32 bit XP.
I tried to use that during install and hit F6 and after XP loaded a bunch of files it asked for the driver diskette. I loaded that and hit S. It has been
running for over half an hour with the diskette light on and a message Windows Setup and the status line says Please wait. Just how long do I need
to wait?
Was this what I was supposed to do? OR do I need to set up RAID for one Sata drive?
I am pretty much lost. I have been trying to get this thing working for 4 days now and I am no further along than when I started.
What is the procedure for installing XP on a system with only one HD when that HD is a SATA drive? Do I have to set RAID up even though I dont want the RAID functions?
HELP!!!
Barry
