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| Double check trouble shooting / drivers for a WD800 SATA Drive |
Hippiekiller
12/3/07 11:07:22 PM
Champion
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I have an Asus P5S800-VM
WD800 80gig Sata Drive
Onboard VGA
2 x 512mb DDR400 Ram sticks
and a DVD-RW
Anyways, XP Pro + SP2 keeps rebooting after the splash screen
I disabled most fo the bits and peices in the BIOS I dont need to boot, and have disconected all the non essential peripherals.
I tried to boot into all the diff modes and ended up with the same result.
It hung when loading Mup.sys
I want to jump into the recovery console but windows cant see the drive.....and here lies the "problem" do i have to get a driver from the WD site or the Asus site?
Im not at home and my G/f's father will go nuts if i start downloading stuff and break his 400mb limit.....
So i just wanted to check.....on the Asus site though the only thing I can see that maybe of use is the RAID controller driver..... (which my money is on) or the raid controller driver from the WD Site.
thanks for any help clearing this small problem up.
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....disclaimer, i know nothing! my posts are evidence of this---
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Rybags
12/3/07 11:35:50 PM
Hero
Immortal
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You should only need a driver if the drive's in a RAID array.
Try Safe Mode.
If that doesn't work, try Last known good configuration. -----
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Hippiekiller
12/3/07 11:40:35 PM
Champion
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tried all that.
Sorry I fotgot to mention when i used the XP cd to boot up, i selected to [R]epair a windows install.
Then the message came up telling me WIndows couldnt find an installation to repair.......
I thought I remembered that when i first did this install a few yrs back, I had to use floppy disk with a SATA driver on it during the initial stages of the install.
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tantryl
13/3/07 12:31:36 AM
SuperHero
Immortal
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That's right, it's a SATA drivers, but it's a SATA driver for the motherboard not the HDD.
Pop over here: http://www.sis.com/download/index.php
And download the SATA/RAID driver package.
Unzip it and look in the RAID411a\FloppyImage\964plus180(181) folder. Copy everything in there onto a formatted floppy disk.
Now use that as your F6 disk. -----
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