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I've been using my P4PE without problems for about 6 months now. I ordered a new SATA drive that just came in today and I'm having a lot of problems installing XP onto it. I have a few questions and observations for those that are successfully using this combination. I setup my system with just the SATA drive for the XP installation.
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Do I need to create a RAID setup (using the auto option) if I just am using one drive? When I didn't create any RAID, and merely left the drive attached, during the XP setup (with the drivers for the controller) XP said it couldn't configure that drive and wouldn't let me select it for installation or partition creation.
Is this normal? When I did create a RAID array (but just one disk) via the Auto option in the controller setup, XP setup saw the drive and began an install as normal. However, upon finishing the first part of the install it rebooted the computer which was fine. But then when it tried to go into the second part of the install, nothing happened. I had a blank screen the entire time. Manual resets resulted in the same problem. So, do I have to setup a RAID with one SATA drive, and does anyone have any suggestions for my XP setup woes?
Thanks, Brian. Thanks for the suggestions. It seems as though when the first part of the XP install is finished the machine reboots. I get the Windows Logo and then where I should have gone into the continuation of the setup, my screen simply goes blank. After a couple hours of frustration, assuming it couldn't read the hard drive, I wondered if it simply wasn't showing the installation. Sure enough, the problem was that nothing was being put out from the video card!
I have no idea why this might be the case. I have installed XP with this video card many times.
Maybe something about it and the SATA controller made it not work during the installation. I plugged in an old PCI Matrox Millenium and was able to install XP fine. My Radeon VE worked great once XP was up and running. I have no idea what would cause this sort of behavior. So if anyone's XP install goes blank, try swapping video cards. In reply to Brian Vallelunga -snip- I did what you want, but with an ATA 133 drive connected to the PRI-RAID1.
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You probably need to go into the BIOS and set the boot sequence. Set 'Other Boot Device' to 'SCSI Boot Device', and promote it ahead of 'IDE Hard Drive'. My boot seqence is set: 1. Removable Device Legacy Floppy 2. ATAPI CD-Rom 3. Other Boot Device SCSI Boot Device 4. IDE Hard Drive I also have a Promise controler card installed in my system and in the Advanced PCI Configuration menu, 'Onboard ATA Device First' must be set to yes.
Stephen Spark. Click to expand.I have a SATA drive connected to one SATA port, an ATA drive on the PRI-RAID 1 port, plus two HDD, a DVD and a CDRW on the IDE ports. All works well, but I would like to separate the HDDs from the DVD & CD drives. I have a Promise ATA66 card (not installed). I would be interested in details of your setup to see if it is worth while trying my promise card.
In particular, did you have to set up anything else in the BIOS, other than setting the Onboard ATA Device First. Asus P4PE Rev 1.03 (no overclocking) 10061 BIOS 2.4 CPU (Standard Intel cooler) 2 x 512mb Apacer DDRAM W2k SP4 TIA Lionel Modra. In reply to Brian Vallelunga -snip- I did what you want, but with an ATA 133 drive connected to the PRI-RAID1. You probably need to go into the BIOS and set the boot sequence. Set 'Other Boot Device' to 'SCSI Boot Device', and promote it ahead of 'IDE Hard Drive'. My boot seqence is set: 1. Removable Device Legacy Floppy 2.
ATAPI CD-Rom 3. Other Boot Device SCSI Boot Device 4. Synthogy ivory v1 5 keygen photoshop. IDE Hard Drive I also have a Promise controler card installed in my system and in the Advanced PCI Configuration menu, 'Onboard ATA Device First' must be set to yes. Stephen Spark. Click to expand.I have a SATA drive connected to one SATA port, an ATA drive on the PRI-RAID 1 port, plus two HDD, a DVD and a CDRW on the IDE ports.
All works well, but I would like to separate the HDDs from the DVD & CD drives. I have a Promise ATA66 card (not installed). I would be interested in details of your setup to see if it is worth while trying my promise card. In particular, did you have to set up anything else in the BIOS, other than setting the Onboard ATA Device First.
Asus P4PE Rev 1.03 (no overclocking) 10061 BIOS 2.4 CPU (Standard Intel cooler) 2 x 512mb Apacer DDRAM W2k SP4 TIA Lionel Modra. Click to expand.Sorry for the late reply Lionel, I'm on the road all week and have no net access while at work.
I have a similar setup as yours without the SATA drive. Setting the 'Onboard ATA Device First' to yes was all I did other then changing the the 'Boot Sequence'.
My system would hang when the Promise controller card was detecting it's drives. My system is setup has 3 hard drives and 2 optical drives with: P4PE motherboard: PRIRAID1 - C drive, the boot hard drive (setup as a 'single' drive raid array) PRIIDE - DVD drive SECIDE - CDR/CDRW drive Promise Ultra133 TX2: IDE1- D hard drive, data drive with mp3s, movies ect. IDE2- E hard drive, system backups and images All drives are masters on their own channels. Every thing is working great with no problems. Some time this winter, when I have some spare time I plan on setting up a dual boot system with WinXP and a Linux partition as well. I'll probably go with Mandrake again, but with all these drives, I may try a few other distro's as well 8^) Asus P4PE P4 2.4 @ 2.8g stock fan 512 mb PC 3200 @ 416 MHz WinXP She'll clock higher but it's hot and I don't have AC, so I'll leave it on some conservative settings till winter comes.
Stephen Spark.