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Ronhrin
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PostPosted: Tue, 11th Jul 2006 20:10    Post subject: Problem with SATA HD Booting
I have a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe with onboard SiI 3112 Sata Controller.

I have 2 HDD drives connected to my Primary IDE Channel, 2 DVD-RAM Drives Connected to my Secondary IDE Channel and 1 HDD Drive connected to my Sata Channel.

my problem is the following, I have Win XP installed on my Sata HD (had to use the cd drivers when installing XP, cause I can't find a way to upgrade the controller BIOS [don't even know if it is possible]), but so far so good, my real problem is the following, when I power up my PC, it boots fine the Sata HD, (I have the IDE detection turned off in BIOS), but everytime I reboot the PC, it will NEVER boot the OS, it just stops, at the boot point, it seems like it is waiting for the IDE HD to boot.

so, I copied the system files NTLDR, NTDetect.com and Boot.ini into the Primary IDE HDD,and then, I had proof that it was indeed waiting for the IDE drive to boot. it prompt "cannot boot OS, Missing system files", after that I tried to edit boot.ini a million times, but I just couldn't find a way for the Sata drive boot through the IDE Primary.

what change should I have to do to the Boot.ini in order to sucessefully boot a sata drive through the IDE?

and can anyone explain me why this is happening? I mean, when the PC reboots shouldn't the memory be erased? when the PC is booting the 2nd, 3rd, 4th time, isn't it making a clean HD detection? or is it using the detection that was stored in memory after the 1st boot and the OS boot?

thnks in advance.
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PostPosted: Tue, 11th Jul 2006 22:51    Post subject:
AFAIK that is a nforce 2 motherboard with the same controller as my Abit NF7-S v2.0 I had once upon a time.

What I did to get things to work was to download a modified bios (well mostly becuase the modified bios made it overclock better... BUT it also contained a BIOS update to the SiI controller... Smile ). And I am pretty sure there is a version for the Asus version of the motherboard. A good place to start would the us forums of asus or www.nforcershq.com in the asus part of the forums.

Moreover I set the boot order in BIOS to boot from sata in the first place and after that IDE and shit.

Installed WinXP with the SATA drivers on a diskette, pressed F6 during the special part of theinstallation and it all went fine after that.
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PostPosted: Wed, 12th Jul 2006 08:04    Post subject:
why not just install windows on ide primary master?
bunches easier on the long run aswell
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