On Tue, 16 Aug 2005 14:18:33 +0100, Hugh Gundersen typed:
>Slight deviation here
>
>I have a couple of SATA HDDs that disappear when in SAFE mode?
You're missing the manufacturers SATA drivers in the startup files.
>Also I have to manually load the drivers from the Gigabyte CD everytime I
>install XP (Which is not often as backups seem to work Ok)
This is normal for XP installs but one is suppose to do it from a floppy
disk & they are actually installed before XP is. I'm surprised XP even
installs with the wrong initial drivers that you apparently are upgrading
when you install the drivers from the CD. Did you ever check the DM to see
if there is a yellow exclamation next to Other Device before installing the
SATA drivers? If you should happen to want to do a new install try loading
the drivers via F6 when booting from the Xp Cd.
>How do you get on with the SATA drivers on initial build as I would like to
>use the faster (sic) SATA drives as 0 & 1 and when starting I get the
>message "can't find Hdd"
>
>Perhaps I'm doing it arse about face as they say!
You have to extract the nVidia or SIL SATA drivers from the Gigabyte CD to
a floppy disk then when installing Windows XP from the CD you need to Press
F6 almost immediately to load the SATA drivers. If you don't load the
drivers properly from a floppy during the install then you wind up with the
situation that you now have. If I didn't do it the way I described I
wouldn't be able to boot into XP's Safe Mode at all because I have no IDE
HDs. The only reason I use either a floppy or zip drive as drive A on my
systems but have built many client systems without a floppy drive by client
request because they want to save the $10.
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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