Friend's Build

[Geoff395]

I just recently helped a friend put together a computer for himself and everything seems to be going fine except when we try to install Windows. For some reason or other Windows dosent detect any drives in his computer, however; his Sata drive shows up in the bios and I have tried to use Max Blast 3 to format his drive and go from there, but it still dosent detect it. Im not trying to setup raid, im just going to use 1 Sata drive. Any Ideas?


-MSI RD480 NEO2-FI Radeon Xpress 200 CrossFire Athlon 64(FX)/64 X2 Dual-Core Skt939
- 2 GBs Corsair Value Select 400 MHz
- Maxtor Sata 7200 RPM HD

[glc]

You should have received a floppy disk with the SATA driver on it with the motherboard. You have to use it.

1. Booting from CD-ROM, when the Windows XP Setup blue screen
appear and prompt user to Press F6 if you need to install third
party SCSI or RAID driver, please press F6 key:
2. The setup program will continue, later when the setup program
prompts user to specify additional adapters, please press S
Key.
3. Then the setup program will prompt user to insert the driver
diskette. Please insert the driver diskette, then press ENTER
to continue;
4. The follow-up window will list out the installation choices,
please select ULi SATA/RAID Controller for Windows XP
and press ENTER to continue;
5. The follow-up window will list out the devices to be installed,
in which selected ULi controller(s) should be included;
6. If users want to install other devices, please operate at this time.
If all devices have been successfully installed, please go to next
step.
7. Press ENTER to continue Windows XP setup.

If you did not receive a floppy disk, you can make one with the motherboard CD.

First please perpare one formatted 1.44M Floppy
Then please copy necessary driver from MSI Driver CD

- Driver for Win2000/2003/XP/XPA64/2003x64
Please copy CDROM:
ULi\FLOPPY
WIN_2000 folder
WIN_XP folder
WINXPA64 folder
Disk1 file
TXTSETUP.OEM file

[Geoff395]

We have the SATA floppy for the Hard Drive and now we run in to another problem. After pressing f6, it asks us for the SATA floppy, but when we put the floppy in it still continues to ask us for the floppy. We have tried the floppy that came with the MoBo and we have created another one from the MoBo CD, but we get the same results with both. The floppy is connected and is showing up in the bios, but Windows dosent want to recognize the floppy we put in.

[Geoff395]

apparently the new floppy that we just bought was dead, we swapped it with another and now everything is working fine. Thanks