09-22-2003, 08:45 AM | #1 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Manchester, England
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WinXP only booting with XP CD in drive! Maxtor SATA drive - Abit KV7
After installing XP my system now will only boot with the XP CD in the drive and CD-ROM set as first boot device. If I selected Hard-Drive as the boot option, it just says "NO BOOT DRIVE DETECTED" or similar.
If the XP CD is in however, it says "Press any key to boot from CD..." which if you ignore then proceeds to boot from the SATA drive! I have a DVD ROM and a CD-Wrtier both set as primary on the IDE-0 and IDE-1, respectively, and a Maxtor 7200 RPM 80 Gig SATA drive. I installed the SATA driver (F6 during installation and used the provided floppy from Abit). I think I've tried all combinations of boot options in BIOS. I can't be the only one in the world with this problem! Anyone seen and resolved this? I have also posted this on the motherboards forum, but think it might be better in this one! |
09-22-2003, 07:52 PM | #2 (permalink) |
Ssssssssss
Location: Ontario
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Both your DVD Rom and CD Writer are set as Primary? Does this mean you have your Hard Drive set as a slave?
If so, I suggest you put the Hard Drive on the IDE-0 set as Master, and put the DVD Rom and CD Writer on IDE-1 set as Master and Slave respectively. |
09-23-2003, 01:06 AM | #4 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Manchester, England
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It's a SATA drive, so it is on a seperate controller.
Also, the only BIOS on the website is the release version that came with the board. The thing that is confusing me is that it's A-bits flagship Athlon board, with Microsoft's flagship OS and a well known drive manufacturer. I can't believe I am the only one who has seen this problem! |
09-27-2003, 01:48 AM | #9 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Manchester, England
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Right, there isn't a SCSI option. I basically have "Hard Drive", "Floppy", "USB - SCSI", "USB - Floppy" and "CD-ROM". The only one that works is "CD-ROM" when the XP CD is in the drive as before.
Very strange. My old KT7 board had a "ATA100-RAID" option to boot from. Even though the only BIOS on the A-bit website is the relsase one, it seems to be a slightly higher version than the one I have, I am going to try flashing it so see if that sorts it. If that doesn't work, I'm stuck! Cheers, Bfoz |
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abit, booting, drive, kv7, maxtor, sata, winxp |
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