XP Pro OEM and SATA drives on new system

[Madtaxman]

I am having a problem installing XP Pro (OEM from ZipZoomFly.com) on my new system. System: ASUS A8v Deluxe, AMD Athlon 3500+, 1 gig ram (2 sticks), Western Digital 74 gig Raptor SATA, Maxtor DiamondMax 10 SATA, Lite-On DVD+/-RW, Creative Sound Blaster Audigy Platimum, Floppy, ATI AIW 9800. My problem is that I get to the point where you insert the floppy with the SATA drivers and I get the following message: "File txtsetup.oem caused an unexpected error (1024) at line 1747 in d:\xpsprtm\base\boot\setup\oemdisk.c". I have built about 10 systems and have never run across this before. This is the first time I have used SATA drives and an OEM install disk and I am all out of ideas. I don't ask questions often prefering to solve them myself but I am stumped. I made the floppy twice from the ASUS disk and twice from files downloaded from the ASUS web site. If I press tab to make a RAID drive (which I don't want to do), the system recognizes both drives and gives info like drive size, HD ID number, etc, so I believe that the hardware is okay. What do I do now? As the Beatles so aptly said: Help! I need somebody's help. Heeeeelllllpppp!

[EzyStvy]

Setup processes only the first driver file entry that is listed in Txtsetup.oem in Microsoft Windows

http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;885756

[Corky]

Unplug the second drive until after you get the OS installed. Make sure the drive is connected to SATA 1 port, and then try the install again with the VIA drivers at F6.

[Madtaxman]

Thanks. I will try these and let you know what worked. I was at my wits end on what to do next.

[Madtaxman]

Thank you Corky and Ezystvy, but I tried both methods both singlely and together and I still get the same error message. Any new thoughts? I do have a spare PATA drive. Should I maybe hook it up temporarily, install XP Pro to it, then turn around and install XP to the SATA drive, then remove the PATA drive? Troubleshooting is fun but this is getting silly very fast.

[Statica]

Hi Madtaxman:
Firstly, have you made sure that your driver disk is updated? Make sure that you download the files from Asus' US site and make sure that you have the files in your driver disk that are in the correct tree heirarchy : the root directory must contain TXTSETUP.OEM and a header file (something like VTxxxx) as well as a subdirectory, usually called WinXP, with the files for XP within that directory.
Secondly, try turning off any other unused IDE channels through your BIOS. In essence make sure you just turn on IDE channels either P- or S-ATA that you are using.
Finally, and this isn't troubleshooting but an alternative for you:
AFAIK, XP after servicepack 1 supports S-ATA natively, which means that you probably dont need a driver disk to get it recognized. I would suggest slipstreaming your XP CD with SP2 and then using it, if all else fails. Remember that XP was released when S-ATA was merely a pipedream, but I have used slipstreamed SP1's that were able to recognize SATA drives without the driver disks. It stands to reason that SP2 would have equivalent or better support for it.

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Not that it helps for now, but for the future, this is in essence the biggest issue with VIA - simply AWFUL drivers.

[Corky]

I've got the Asus P4P800-E Deluxe mobo, and SP2. I didn't need SATA drivers because the mobo has the Intel ICH5R chip which is recognized by XP (SP2, and maybe SP1, not sure). I thought XP only recognizes Intel ICH5R and that with the VIA chip the drivers were needed??