Comment by Anonymous

January 7, 2005 @ 2:28 pm

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On Your FirstPage You recommend FileZilla.
You speak of the FTP-Server with
Ravest-Shamir–Adelmann Encryption etc. (right ?
(May be I can not write the name F..zilla correctly ))
In any case take several Anti-Spy detection apps ;
even such ones for 4-digit US-Dollars.
And … The result for F..zilla is … . You can guess.

Comment by chovy

January 7, 2005 @ 3:24 pm

Actually, no I can’t. You make no sense.

Comment by Anonymous

January 19, 2005 @ 1:44 pm

I haven’t used a floppy in 7 years, are you kidding me. Someone should punch asus in the gut.

Comment by Anonymous

January 25, 2005 @ 5:22 am

Its not ASUS fault, its microsoft’s for not putting SATA recognition drivers onto SP2.

Comment by Anonymous

January 29, 2005 @ 3:35 pm

Hi,

Thank you very much for this useful info, I would never have found out myself on how to do this.
Really appreciate it!

Regards,

James

Comment by Anonymous

January 29, 2005 @ 9:10 pm

I have an A8v MB and WD drive and followed the same steps you did, however when XP Media Center Edition is installing I get a bunch os file not found errors starts of with ks.sys and goes through about 50 files. I tried to skip them but then system won’t work. Any idea, is it windows or Asus?
Bruce kbkane@yahoo.com

Comment by Anonymous

February 5, 2005 @ 3:33 pm

ThX 1000 times from Vienna-Austria! I tried almost the whole night to set up my system with sata. also millions of “i-know-everything-about-computer”-Forums didn’t help … till i found your excellent tutorial.
now everything is running - once more: thank you!

peter

Comment by sram

February 16, 2005 @ 8:18 am

Chovy
The step by step instruction you have given was very helpful for me to setup my MAXTOR SATA drivers while loading Windows XP. I had spent about 8hrs trying to figure out what the heck was missing, until someone forwarded me the utl to this site. Luckily for me I had a floppy drive from my old comp. that I removed and didn’t have to buy a new one!!

Comment by Anonymous

March 2, 2005 @ 2:20 am

U get cd with mb… so use makedisk.exe twice!

1 floppy -> fastrakt drivers
2 floppy -> via sata raid drivers

use windows install cd, press f6 in start to install drivers to raid and … blablabla

Comment by Anonymous

March 13, 2005 @ 11:54 am

Those links to the ASUS site are no longer working - thanks big for the BLOG, it is a great help, i have exactly the same hardware setup, except that i am trying to setup a pair of Maxtors as a RAID 1 for safety ’s sake

Comment by chovy

March 14, 2005 @ 10:47 pm

The link I posted still works. As for the links in the email I received from them, I can’t vouch for those. I was able to fix the problem before I got the email response from ASUS.

Comment by norman

March 15, 2005 @ 3:04 pm

Hey sorry i tried to install and i dont noe what a FastTrak Controller is can someone help me out plz i dont noe what to do when my pc starts it says FastTrak Controller not found . BIOS NOT INSTALLED’

plz help..

Comment by chovy

March 15, 2005 @ 3:07 pm

Can you hit delete and go into your bios before it boots up? I’m not sure what a FastTrack controller is.

Comment by chrism

March 17, 2005 @ 1:39 am

Hey, chovy… thanks for being so high up on google’s search for “boot sata asus A8V” :) … saved me a lot of trouble.. incidentally, I just made the disks off the included cd… however, someone would be utterly booched if they did not have convenient access to another machine on which to make the floppies. All the other machines I have are Apples… buuuuut my dad happened to have my old PC laptop running so I was saved…

I wonder who to place the blame with.. I guess MS for not including SATA recognition in the install disc.. but at the least, ASUS should have included a pre-made floppy (I hate having a floppy in here but I knew it would be good for something) and a READ ME FIRST WINDOWS USERS doc stuck at the top of the mobo pack.

Comment by chovy

March 17, 2005 @ 9:45 am

Yeah. I think MS is partially to blame, because they probably were slow to adopt SATA, apparently it was cutting edge when they released XP and not that well adopted.

As for ASUS, they could have easily solved the problem by including a floppy, although this still would’ve required a floppy drive, which I didn’t have initially. I suppose we’ll never be 100% independent enough to never need a floppy.

Comment by Anonymous

March 22, 2005 @ 11:29 am

Chovy and all:
A slight variation on the problem you described. My A8V-Deluxe has a RAID1 on the Via controller. I was given a new Maxtor Diamond10 300 GB HD and would like to install it on the Promise controller. Unfortunately, it was OEM and had no documentation and most of what I’ve gotten from ASUS has been about RAID arrays - I just want the Max to be a stand-alone drive. I’ve plugged it in, power and SATA cable, but it is not found. I’m brand new to SATA (I mean infant) so I’m not sure what the hey I should do. The Promise controller is visible from Disk Manager. Anyone got a clue, procedure, or website? Thanks for taking the time (and thanks to Chovy to a nice site).
Steve

Comment by chovy

March 22, 2005 @ 11:37 am

Did you install the SATA drivers from floppy (asus) during the XP Install?

You should see the drive when you boot up, if not, there’s some other issue.

Comment by Anonymous

March 24, 2005 @ 3:31 am

hi..
i have a a8v deluxe mainboard work together with amd64 3200+ cpus.
i have done all due to your instruction,but after the windows xp had succesfully copied to the hard drive and i begin to set up.
suddenly came the blue screen.
it seems to be that it have false on the hardware.
i was using a windows xp cd.
and i think that’s not an xp Sp2.

Comment by Ravi.

March 30, 2005 @ 12:16 am

hi !!

just wanted to check something with u .. on the asus A8V deluxe mobo is the bios screen very slow :-( ??? by that i meant to ask if the screen has to go blank and refresh after each key stroke ?? that is what happens on my mobo .. just got it yesterday with 1G ram and the sata raid on the promise controller !!

thanks

Comment by chovy

March 30, 2005 @ 12:21 am

Definitely a problem. Not sure what might be causing that. If you can I’d just send it back to the dealer and get a new one.

Comment by Anonymous

April 3, 2005 @ 1:49 am

good site!
I have an easier problem. Got an ASUS p4p800e motherboard, but no setup cd for it (socket478)….cant seem to find it for download on asus site…can anyone help?? thanks

Bob0399@hotmail.com

Comment by Anonymous

April 7, 2005 @ 9:10 pm

Thanks! Had the same problem as you did except I had a Seagate ST3200822AS drive.

Followed your step and it worked!

Comment by Anonymous

April 8, 2005 @ 10:06 pm

Wow great stuff!

Thanks for the info, I managed to follow the instructions, ran over to my other PC and was able to download the drivers and put it onto the floppy…

Thanks again for the great info!

jotaroh@hotmail.com

Comment by Anonymous

April 10, 2005 @ 2:32 am

Motherboard: A7N8X with SATA
HDD: MAXTOR 160GB SATA

The HDD does not show in BIOS nor before starting win installation!

Can anyone give me a link to some drivers?

Comment by Bones MD

April 26, 2005 @ 6:17 pm

Well I have tried this to install a WS Raptor Sata HD. I have an A8V Deluxe MB followed the same steps you did, it did not work. I cant say how many time i have tried this and all falled.
CPU:AMD Althon 64 FX-55, Asua A8V Deluxe, Geforce BFG 6800 Ultra OC Video card. D-link Ethernet card for DSL.
So what gives? It all Windows falt no driver with XP Home. Sure Sata came out before XP but up date people so we can get these raptors installed. Crap throughing $$$ around I can not do….
Gealsc@yahoo.com

Comment by Anonymous

May 21, 2005 @ 4:20 am

i had major problems getting the drivers to load from floppy. I kept getting an ‘unexpected error’ message everytime the board(A8V deluxe) tried to load the drivers before XP install. Turned out the problem was that my board only had Bios ver. 1.008 installed. I had to update to 1.009 before it would accept the drivers.

Comment by Anonymous

May 21, 2005 @ 4:29 am

The driver that worked for me with my Asus A8V Deluxe/Seagate Barracuda 80G Sata can be found [url=http://www.via.com.tw/en/southbridge/vt8237_index.jsp]Here[/url] at Via Arena

Comment by Anonymous

May 23, 2005 @ 10:29 am

you can avoid using a floppy, if you make a new windows install CD with sata drivers http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=1703&page=1

Comment by Peter C.

June 17, 2005 @ 4:24 pm

I had the same problem. Googled, your blog came up, and after reading it I realized I was installing the wrong SATA driver, the Promise , instead of the Via. Got the correct driver off the CD and XP installed without a hitch. Ah the power of the Internet to over come problems. Thanks!

Comment by Anthony

June 18, 2005 @ 12:46 am

Yup. Lucky for us, we have a working 2nd computer with an internet connection. Otherwise, we’d all be calling tech support.

Comment by Anonymous

June 20, 2005 @ 3:11 am

This is for the original remarks on how to get my HDD to work.. I love you.. I want you to have my babies.. The Asus Website was retarded and did not load properly. I was about to throw my new rig out the window, until you saved it. THANK YOU!!!

Comment by Anthony

June 20, 2005 @ 8:56 pm

Uh…I don’t have babies.

Comment by Si13nt

June 25, 2005 @ 12:41 am

Thanks dude!
You helped me a lot

Comment by nate

August 2, 2005 @ 5:50 pm

THANK YOU!!! i spent forever and a day trying to make my seagate barracuda work, but after following those simple steps you layed out, my computer is now up and running windows!

Comment by Anonymous

August 3, 2005 @ 1:15 am

This issue is Asus’s problem… they chose the chipset to use for their mainboards. MS can only put drivers on windows which are certified to work with windows, i.e. the manufacturer has made the attempts to make stable software which then has to be verified. If Asus can’t be bothered to choose a sata/raid controller which is supported that’s up to them. My SATA controller’s are picked up fine by XP RTM using a gigabyte mobo.

Comment by Anthony

August 3, 2005 @ 11:24 am

The real reason for this problem: Windows XP did not include any SATA drivers at the time of it’s release, because it wasn’t around yet.

Comment by Anonymous

August 6, 2005 @ 9:15 pm

Like the others I have been looking at google trying to figure out exactly what is going on. Intitially I installed the A8V Deluxe with an IDE Master/Slave combo. I finally upgraded to a Maxtor 16 MB Cache with 300 GB storage. As you can tell I was getting very upset trying to figure out what in the world was going on. I went to Asus intitially and downloaded the updated SCSI drivers, but apparently they weren’t the right ones. I then read to go to the CD-ROM and that did it. The location for the file was slightly different: F:\Drivers\VIARAID\6420RAID\DriverDisk

Thank you very much! You are truly a wonderful person!

Comment by Anonymous

August 14, 2005 @ 12:09 pm

you’re a lifesaver.

can also be accomplished loading driver from USB key if m.b. supports it.

james

Comment by Will

August 14, 2005 @ 3:34 pm

I have an Asus A8V deluxe and two WD SATA HDs but I don’t want to set them up on raid, and every driver I seem to download and make a disk of seems to not work. I was wondering if I had still had to have a raid controller or anything.

Comment by Anthony

August 14, 2005 @ 3:46 pm

That shouldn’t be a problem, I loaded 1 WD hd without raid.

Just use the 2nd sata cable as you would 2 ide drives.

Did you disable the bios driver?
You want to disable one and enable the other (I forget which is which, see above).

Comment by shaolin.kaveman

August 30, 2005 @ 10:03 pm

Youre a flipping CHAMPION chovy.

There are about 10 billion solutions on the web all of which are missing the key info that you had which solved my problem. MAKEDISK.EXE!!!

I tried making my own disk by copying the files and folders from the asus mobo cd and it did make win detect the sata hdd, but didnt work for other reasons.

LEGEND! Two thumbs up from down under.

shaolin.kaveman@gmail.com

Comment by Anonymous

September 9, 2005 @ 12:26 pm

If you could tell me if this motherboard the asus A8V has raid 0. I have 2 raptor 36gb drives and can not get the computer to do a raid the way you have said above. The computer wants to do the raid setup after the screen that you say to hit tab on is there and all but it dosen’t show the drives at all. On the other screen *one that flashes after the tab screen* it shows the HD but wants to do a Mirror our stripe but i want to have a raid 0. Please any help would be great.

styxnumber2@hotmail.com

Comment by Anthony

September 9, 2005 @ 1:14 pm

What operating system? Try googling for more info…I’m not doing raid 0. I’m doing JBOD.

Comment by Anonymous

September 10, 2005 @ 2:12 pm

Thanks man, this was making me mental.

Comment by Anonymous

September 11, 2005 @ 12:35 am

i have the a8v deluxe 3200+ AMD with a western digital 360 SATA HD. Using it as my main boot drive. I tried the procedure first posted but it didn’t work. Then I downloaded the drivers from http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=420&OSID=1&CatID=1180&SubCatID=143 posted a few posts up and it WORKED!! FINALLY DETECTED THE HD. thank goodness for your blog Chovy!

Comment by Matt

September 12, 2005 @ 7:08 pm

Thanks for your advice on using the VIA drivers, I spent 3 hours trying to tackle this SATA problem, but your advice was totally correct and worked the first time.

Comment by Anonymous

September 13, 2005 @ 8:06 am

I had the same problem, but the BIOS won’t even recognize my Western Digital SATA drive. I finally found on the ASUS support site that the newer Western Digital SATA drive can transfer at 300MB/s and the older controller cannot negotiate properly with these drives. You have to change a jumper setting on the drive and then it all works from that point on. Just in case some of you are having the same problems.

Comment by bigjimbishop

September 24, 2005 @ 9:38 am

Hi,
I just got my A8v deluxe running with XP pro on IDE. I want to install my 2 SATA drives which are already formatted with loads of vital files on them.
they are recognised when plugged in but windows can’t see them.
I created a drivers floppy and everything installed fine I think.
But I don’t want to format them so any clues?

Moderately competent

Jim

Comment by Anthony

September 24, 2005 @ 12:39 pm

Geez…I don’t know if you can install WIndows XP on an already existing drive without wiping it out first.

If I were you. I would get a 40gb drive for the OS, and use your sata drives as storage-only.

Comment by bigjimbishop

September 25, 2005 @ 12:47 am

No I have XP installed already on a 40Gb drive. I just want to plug in the SATA drives and access the data on them.

Comment by Anthony

September 25, 2005 @ 10:01 am

Hmmm….I don’t know, but I would think that if you can boot up into XP, there must be some windows xp sata driver you can install to add hdd.

Comment by i12batree

September 29, 2005 @ 12:20 pm

Thanks a million dude, you really got me out fo trouble there…

i dont know what you were going on about boot roms and promise drivers though, couldnt find those options in the bios… but windows *seems* to be installing ok, touch wood

Comment by Anonymous

October 2, 2005 @ 12:55 am

Thanks man, damn I lost more than 4 hours trying to fix the problem… I found the solution here. Thanks a lot!!!

videnoff@gmail.com

Comment by Anonymous

October 6, 2005 @ 4:34 am

I’ve spend 4 days trying to solve the problem, read this and I still have the problem. Seriously, more should be done by gimps at Microsellouts to enable easier installations. Just because the technology wasn’t there when XP was made doesn’t mean it will never be there. Lets look at it. When was XP released? 2001 ish? Did we ever think we’d see the advent of PCI-E? DDR2 and 3? SLI more mainstream than it was in 97? SATA, let alone SATA II?

Comment by JOHN

October 14, 2005 @ 11:34 am

chovoy…..thanks for the pricise steps
that u posted. i own a custome computer store and have had a few minor problems with the new asus 754 and 939 boards setting up the raid and now i think its solved. thanks a ton and id like to say hey to the bay-area. you rock!

Comment by chovy

October 14, 2005 @ 11:39 am

no prob! Good luck with your computer store, I wish I could open one up.

Comment by john

October 14, 2005 @ 11:50 am

thanks, and its not a easy thing to have a shop. i am in the vail colorado valley and its feast or famen up here. *as far as the raid post goes KEEP THE DISK IN THE FLOPPY DRIVE! thanks for advise again.

Comment by chovy

October 14, 2005 @ 11:54 am

Cool…where do you get your parts?

Newegg.com?

We have Fry’s in the bay area here, but they suck. I return so much stuff to them after awhile.

Comment by john

October 14, 2005 @ 11:59 am

i use newegg and a ton of other places
i dont buy stuff from the large retal stores due to only having intermediate products i buy from the main guys. if you ever need anything call me up @970-926-1300 john roberts @ micro solutions

Comment by chovy

October 14, 2005 @ 12:15 pm

tried emailing you, but your adddy didn’t work (at least the guess). I simply removed spaces.

Email me: apwebdesign{–AT–}ahoo.com

I’m interested in seeing what kind of mass quantity discount I can get on RAM.

Comment by john

October 14, 2005 @ 12:50 pm

lol sorry i ment to say johnr@rsii.com

Comment by Doug

October 27, 2005 @ 6:53 pm

Hi Chovy,

Or is it anChovy? :-)

Thank you for posting this information. It certainly set the direction for me to get my winxp system installed. However, I have a second SATA drive. The first one is recognized by Windows Explorer. The second SATA drive is recognized by the BIOS and by the Windows XP “Device Manager”. So as far as the file system is concerned this second drive doesn’t exist. Any suggestions? Thx. Go A’s!!!!

Comment by doug

October 27, 2005 @ 6:55 pm

Correction:

Windows Explorer does NOT recognize the second drive. My bad.

Comment by chovy

October 27, 2005 @ 7:14 pm

did you format it?

Comment by doug

October 28, 2005 @ 6:41 am

I didn’t format the second drive. From a dos prompt I tried running “fdisk” but that wasn’t found. Typically fdisk was used to add partitions, etc. With XP there must be some new way? How would I format a drive that Windows Explorer can’t see?

Comment by chovy

October 28, 2005 @ 10:49 am

there are a few ways…probably the easiest is to download the “install disk” from the harddrive manufacturer.

Comment by doug

October 28, 2005 @ 7:03 pm

Ok. I shoulda Googled before posting here. Your install instructions work fine for a single drive. If you have a second drive (non-Raid, just jbod) then that won’t get partitioned until you take some specific steps after XP install. Just follow the steps in this link after Chovy’s steps and you should be fine:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/

Thanks for your feedback Chovy!

Comment by velvetmidget

November 30, 2005 @ 6:06 pm

i just want to plug in a sata drive and use it as back up. no raid at all. i allready have xp running but i cant get it to recognize the sata drive. I had a asus p4p800 and it worked fine. i find it hard to believe that you have to run raid. my comment is same as comment #123.

Please help i am going crazy. I have a 400gb sata drive just sitting here waiting to backup.

aaron.richardson @ gmail.com

thank you so much for your help.

by the way great blog for raid

Comment by Stealthmims

December 17, 2005 @ 4:49 pm

WOW!!!

A well written easy to follow guide if only id have used google first rather than yahoo.

I followed the guide using the setup cd on my laptop and worked second attempt first time I didn’t have the boot device order setup in the same order (didn’t think it would matter).

Thanks for taking the time out to right this I’m sure its saved hundreds of people hundreds of hours.

Dann

Comment by lave

December 17, 2005 @ 6:50 pm

Yep - would be helpfull if ASUS included the floppy with the driver on it - but this is how every raid controller driver is installed with XP/2000/2003 and procedurally has nothing to do with ASUS at all.

cheers

lave

Comment by klebel

December 29, 2005 @ 9:26 pm

thanks for the tutorial man, they are gay for making us go through all this stupid shit. thanks again man

Comment by dbrew0

January 4, 2006 @ 4:22 pm

Great Blog Chovy!

I’ve got a question that I haven’t seen posed here:
I’ve got an A8V-Deluxe mb, a pair of Raptor 37GB hd in Raid 0 config, on the Promise controller, w/ XP Pro SP2. Everything works great - no problems. Went right in the first time.

Now the scary part: now I’d like to add a pair of drives as a mirror to the raid 0 on the Promise controller - thus making a raid 0+1 setup w/ the 4 drives. Can I do this without destroying the raid 0 and destroying the data on that array? Is it as simple as removing the array and re-configuring it as a 0+1? It would suck having to re-install everything.

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Comment by Anonymous

February 20, 2006 @ 1:33 pm

I thought it was funny….I’ve installed windows onto two different SATA hard drives (neither of them attached to an A8V) and had no problems using a windows xp disc embedded with sp2. So apparently they selectively included drivers.

Comment by Tony

February 25, 2006 @ 7:57 am

Thanks a millions for the information. I found this before I ordered my SATA drive. If not, I’m sure I would have been utterly frustrated.

Comment by Rob

March 1, 2006 @ 10:18 am

Actually, this IS ASUS’s fault in someway. I had an MSI board and this NEVER HAPPENED. EVER.

Comment by Daniel

April 7, 2006 @ 10:20 pm

Thank you so very much for your information about this board and how to get sata drives working. If it was not for your information here I would have literally thrown my SATA drive out the window and called it a day. I wish there were more people like you to post their information on the internet so that others may benefit from it. I think you would be a very valuable addition to www.helponthenet.com .. if you are not already a member id check it out, its a forum where people go to help out and give their knowledge and assistance to others. Thank you again

Daniel

Comment by Matt

April 8, 2006 @ 11:30 pm

I have an a8v deluxe. I have a WD 74 gig 10,000 rpm sata hard drive. When my computer is starting up sometimes when the sata screen is testing my computer it sees the drive but never when i go into the bios settings do i see the hard drive please help. I can load windows setup run the promise fast track controller (64 bit) and then it tell sme that theres no hard drive. PLEASE HELP!!!!

Comment by MUSICMAN

April 11, 2006 @ 12:31 pm

Just a heads up if you have problems with the ASUS A8R-MVP motherboard and Maxtor DiamondMax10 SATA drive when trying to set up in a RAID configuration. The DiamondMax10 needs a firmware upgrade. I couldn’t get the upgrade process to work for me and exchanged the drives for Seagate, but figured I’d clue folks in, in case anyone was having any problems w/ RAID configuration using these drives w/ this motherboard.

http://www.monarchcomputer.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=7414

Comment by Gary

April 17, 2006 @ 10:49 am

I have installed the SATA378 raid drivers during the windows xp installation by pressing F6 etc, however when I finish the installation it is still saying that I have no hard drives installed. All I am trying to do is format my hard drive, however I cannot carry this out until I can get my computer to find my drive.

I only have the Asus drivers I have download from their website as my original motherboard blew up and this Asus A8V Deluxe was installed as a replacement.

I would be grateful for your help.

Thanks.

Comment by infinityeyes

April 27, 2006 @ 11:34 am

Thank you so much. When I first bought this board I was so frustrated and installed winxp on a 80gb maxtor ide drive and ghosted it to a serial ata drive. That worked but now my OS is slowly corrupting itself. Now that I have this guide I can slipstream the install process with nlite. you rule!

Comment by Alistair

July 5, 2006 @ 5:41 pm

Thank you for your excellent information. Without it I would have taken a sledgehammer to my motherboard. Thanks again!

Comment by Eugene

September 9, 2006 @ 2:11 pm

Guys I really need your help. I have an ASUS A8V Deluxe board and trying to setup two 74Gig raptors as Raid 0 using VIA chip. I am able to Raid them and install Winodws x64 on them, however as soon as Windows x64 restarts after finishing installation, my computer keeps restarting. I tried flashing BIOS to the latest revision, tried the 64Bit version of VIA controller drivers, same problem. I tried unpluging any other hardware leaving only the basic hardware components, same problem. I tried 3 different sticks of RAM in different sockets, same problem. I am going insane. Can my mb be bad? The strange thing is that I have another regular SATA drive which had windows 32Bit installation on it. I tried to connect it, and I was able to boot in to windows. Please help. Thank you for the awsome article! :)

Comment by kbk

October 20, 2006 @ 4:07 am

Thanks so much for this help, it had taken me 2 days of trying to get my A8V-UA board to recognise the SATA hard drive, the most frustrating thign was that neither the promise or fasttrak drivers that came with the ASUS mobo on the support cd worked!

But thanks to this tutorial im now finally underway with installing winxpsp2 after 2 days of frustrtion !

thanks so much :D

Comment by Mick

October 26, 2006 @ 3:12 pm

A8R-MVP sli crossfire

Problem
The os is set up fine,on maxtor 300gb sata2
System occasionally cant find os
On investigation mobo has reverted to the wd hdd (ide)
as primary boot device.
Usually it requires reselecting 1st drive to maxtor and saving changes.

What is making the bios do this??? it may be ok for weeks and then it decides to select the ide drive as 1st drive

Comment by peelaa

December 11, 2006 @ 5:04 am

Hi thanx for this guide dont no how long it would have took me to figure this out without it. Anyway I am having the same problem as Eugene, I can install windows x64 but it just wont boot. I have no problem booting x86 (32 bit) windows but whenever i try booting windows 64 my pc just keep restarting before it gets into windows. Did you manage to fix this problem Eugene?

Comment by hermes

February 25, 2007 @ 10:25 am

Sorry to but in here but not sure where to make a new post.
I seem to have lost two onboard Sata discs, my PC crashed and when it came back I had lost both of them.

The only one that was still ok was my drive C which is fine but the other two seemed to have dropped off cpmpletely.

I thought the hard discs had packed up but after testing with a usb gadget I know they are still ok when plugged into an outside usb socket.

I then tried a PCI Sata card which I can’t get the hardware profile to see (it has a ?)

I have two questions really, how do I get th Mobo to see the card and what have a I messed with the Sata hard disc sockets?

Asus A8v mobo with

Comment by Leonidas

August 28, 2007 @ 2:26 pm

Sorry :(

Comment by Mike

December 11, 2007 @ 2:22 pm

I have the SATA ports working using the latest VIA drivers but whenever I connect a hard drive to the IDE connectors It will not boot. the drive is recognized in the BIOS and I can boot from a cd but not from a hard drive. Are my IDE controllers worthless or is their some driver or boot instructions I can load? The mobo is an A8V Deluxe

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Comment by TOM

February 14, 2008 @ 4:53 am

Hi there,

I am another who is very confused, I have XP working fine off the primary hard drive (SATA1) and I want to add another drive or two just for storage.

I do not need or want any kind of RAID, i just want the computer to recognise the new disks!

When I add a new drive to SATA 2 the system ‘cannot find windows’ and when i add it to either of the SATA ports on ’southbridge’ then windows will boot but ‘disk management’ doesn’t detect the new drive at all!?!?!

cheers guys

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Comment by The Cooler Master

May 9, 2008 @ 8:24 am

I am in the market for a new Motherboard but anything with an Nvidia 790i chipset sets you back well over £250.

I place more importance on motherboards than other components when building systems. I’m just having a job trying to justify £250.

What do you think would be the best performance/pound value motherboard in the ASUS range?