Have 1 250 MB IDE ATA 133 HD. Also 2 300 MB SATA Drives.No OS installed yet. Upon boot SATA Drives not recognized but IDE is. Boot Disk failure message. I have drivers on floppy from Operation Disk ready to install with OS but can't get past Boot Disk Failure. Bios set to boot sequence CD,Floppy & HD. Anybody got answers? Thanks!
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Giga-Byte K8NF-9 Motherboard
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ski
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- Oct 11, 2000
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Does your MB have an onboard SATA controller, or is an SATA PCI controller card installed?
Which O/S are you installing?
Did you try a different boot floppy?
Did you try configuring the floppy drive as the 1st boot device in BIOS?
Does the floppy drive work in another system?
Which O/S are you installing?
Did you try a different boot floppy?
Did you try configuring the floppy drive as the 1st boot device in BIOS?
Does the floppy drive work in another system?
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Ski,
This is a PCI-Express MB with board support for 4 SATA
Drives and 2 IDE Drives.
Have changed boot sequence to Floppy,Cd & HD but MB still wants to boot to CD.
Will be installing Windows Media Ctr. 2005
Flpppy is brand new and has worked in another machine!
This is a PCI-Express MB with board support for 4 SATA
Drives and 2 IDE Drives.
Have changed boot sequence to Floppy,Cd & HD but MB still wants to boot to CD.
Will be installing Windows Media Ctr. 2005
Flpppy is brand new and has worked in another machine!
Carpetguy
But at this point (before OS is installed) you should have your XP disk in the drive and CDrom set as first boot device in the bios.
It will detect a bootable copy of XP in the CDrom and start loading drivers.
Almost straight away (after XP bgins to install) it will give you the option to load third party drivers "PRESS F6" make sure you have the appropriate drivers on floppy and in the floppy drive.
Once these have loaded SATA drives should be detected.
Note*
I have seen where some Gigabyte motherboards (NF4) have to have JBOD sellected in the Raid even though the drives are not raided as such, I'll try and find out more before I make any further comment.
Martin
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But at this point (before OS is installed) you should have your XP disk in the drive and CDrom set as first boot device in the bios.
It will detect a bootable copy of XP in the CDrom and start loading drivers.
Almost straight away (after XP bgins to install) it will give you the option to load third party drivers "PRESS F6" make sure you have the appropriate drivers on floppy and in the floppy drive.
Once these have loaded SATA drives should be detected.
Note*
I have seen where some Gigabyte motherboards (NF4) have to have JBOD sellected in the Raid even though the drives are not raided as such, I'll try and find out more before I make any further comment.
Martin
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I concur with paparazi. Your computer is sensing a floppy disk in the drive and tries to boot from there. Your driver disk isn't a boot floppy, so you get an error message and the system hangs.
Eject the floppy, put the XP CD in the CD Drive, and reboot. That should get the XP installation started, then follow the [F6] instructions outlined above.
I try not to let my ignorance prevent me from offering a strong opinion.
Eject the floppy, put the XP CD in the CD Drive, and reboot. That should get the XP installation started, then follow the [F6] instructions outlined above.
I try not to let my ignorance prevent me from offering a strong opinion.
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