Didou, You are the best man today! Thank You so much for such info!
Even from ASUS site at first time download - had missing Si3112r.mpd file from the manufacturer package. Link of yours, gave me right tool - Thanx

I have just built my first system and was excited when it started up for the first time. However this was very short lived.

I can't get Win XP Pro to install on my SATA hard drive (Just the one in the system)

I have tried to download the right drivers to load at the F6 promt but windows just keeps trying to reinstall its self over the previous try. what do I need to install to get Windows to load.

I have a Giga-byte K8NXP-9 motherboard with 4 SATA_SB connectors on it and 4 SATA_SII. The SATA HDD is connected to the SATA0_SB connector. When I tried to connect it to the SATA0_SII connector it was not detected.

The Hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 120GB drive.

** My Boot seq is HDD, Floppy , CD ROM (SCSI is not listed) with the SATA HDD connected to SATA0_SB I also have the choice U¬5oJ. when connected to the SATA0_SII this choice is gone **

Please Please Help ......... I have been at it for 6 hours now

Thx

After +- 26 hours of non stop searching, i finally found this forum and solved the problem. 1 SATA Maxtor DiamondMax 9 on an K8V-X giving me a lot of headache. I just want to thank you, didou for giving me the info you did!!!! Now i can finally get some rest

I've posted over in the Storage part of these forums just a few minutes ago, but I seem to have this problem as well. Well, not quite.

I downloaded the drivers (NVIDIA from the Gigabyte website), loaded them onto a floppy and hit the infamous F6. Windows Setup saw them, I selected, but then in the next step it said it couldn't find the harddisk.

It's SATA, and the only hdd. I was wondering if I should start by updating BIOS, but at anyrate not tonight. Haha, good night all! Any help would be appreciated . . .

PS I tried copying some files off the mobo cd, 3112 or something similar (no *r) . . . but that didn't work so Iwent to the website. There was a handy little program that extracted what Ineeded onto a floppy - or so it appeared.

Well, seems correct what u did. I just downloaded the RAID drivers for my mobo and extracted the following files on a floppy and booted. Files that I copied are:

VIARAID/DriverDisk/TXTSETUP.OEM
VIARAID/DriverDisk/VT6420
VIARAID/DriverDisk/SATA/TXTSETUP.OEM
VIARAID/DriverDisk/SATA/VT8237
VIARAID/DriverDisk/SATA/Win2000/viasraid.cat
VIARAID/DriverDisk/SATA/Win2000/VIASRAID.inf
VIARAID/DriverDisk/SATA/Win2000/viasraid.sys

Maybe some redundant files in here, but i was tired of searching and copied the whole lot on it ;-)
When installing, F6 and it worked out fine for me.
I did flash the BIOS aswell, but didn't really help solve my problem.

gz and succes!

I didn't see any of those files on the cd that came with the motherboard . . .

I updated BIOS by the way. No change.

You should look for the drivers of sata on the website of your mobo manufacturor, if you want, give me the brand and model type and i will look if i can find anything for you

need help cant get anything to work

I am having problems with installing windows 64x pro on my new sata drives. I have a 36 gig sata rapter and a 250 gig WD sata. Im running a AMD 64bit 4000+ on a gigabyte board, Ga-K8NXP-Sli, 2 gigs of memory and a ega 7800 gt graphics card. The drivers i downloaded from gigabyte's website, for windows 64x pro os, are too big to fit on a floppy. What do I do? I am brand new to raid and sata. My mobo as SATA II connections controlled by gforce4 sli, and SATA connections controlled by Sil3114. I dont know which one to use and i just want the fastest and best config for my system. PLEASE HELP FAST really want to run my new graphics card to see if it was really worth the money.

I discuss this very problem (installing onto SATA drive) in my thread "How to set up SATA, SCSI, RAID boot drive (workaround)"

This should get you there:
http://www.techspot.com/vb/topic33846.html

Kind Regards,
Robert Karl Stonjek

I've looked on my original mother-board (A7N8X) CD, I've downloaded the drivers from ASUS, but I cant find SIWinAcc.sys on either, I cant find it on my hard drive either. Is it necessary, I am going to do a re-installation of XP shortly.

I have just downloaded the latest version on the Asus website & indeed that file is no longer included in the driver's zip archive. I would thus think it's not necessary to have it during the install process.

Thanks for that. I will try it out sometime over the weekend.

Hello To everyone,
I was wondering if there is someone out there that can guide to me some software that would unlock a SATA Western Digital Hardrive 80GB,
Everywhere I Plug it up it ask me for a Password.. Ive Tried Formating it .. it wont let me access It At all..
Can Someone plz Help...Thank you

SATA DRivers

Hello all,

I have a HP notebook nc8430, i am trying to install Xp but it is not supporting, could anyone please help me to install the SATA Drivers on my computer, where can i find the suitable drivers for the HDD.

I just got a new Toshiba with a Hitachi 5k250 drive. Anyone know where I can get XP drivers for that drive so that I can purge the abortion known as Vista and replace it with XP?

Thanks!

no need for sata drivers just go ahead wiht xp installation and dont press f6 as xp will take default drivers, later you can install drivers,
if its not insatlling please send me the exact maasege you are getting