Cannot Instal Windows 64

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:06:25 GMT, wrote:


On 24-Oct-2007, Outback Jon wrote:

Are you overclocking at all

Thanks for the reply. No, I am not overclocking.Yes, a sata drive is my
boot drive, but I was under the impression that this mobo (with the Nvidia
chipset) loaded sata drivers from bios. Yeah, getting sata drivers installed
from floppy would be real difficult, seeing as I don't have a floppy drive
installed. At either rate it installs 32 bit xp just fine, seeing the sata'
(without me having to install drivers)

And, this is a dual core cpu .... AMD64 4200+
Vista64, can be a bit 'odd' about it's installation. I had almost
identical behaviour on a motherboard from another manufacturer. This
has two SATA ports directly from the chipset, and four from a second
controller. Installing XP, went fine, with the HD connected to the
chipset SATA port, but Vista64 hung just after the first reboot. In
desperation, while trying everything else, I moved the SATA onto the
secondary controller, and enabled it's BIOS, so that it'd stuill be
seen as a 'boot' devices. Vista64, then installed fine!.
I appeared that it was 'seeing' the second controller, and insisting
on trying to access a drive on this, 'ahead' of the one on the
motherboard chipset...

Best Wishes

On 26-Oct-2007, Roger Hamlett wrote:

Vista64, can be a bit 'odd' about it's installation.

It probably doesnt matter, but this is not Vista64 ... regular old
Windows XP Pro,
X64 Edition.

When I start the Win64 cd, it immediately goes to "Setup is copying files"
Is there any way, I can at least see what, if any, hard drives it is seeing?
Because I get no choice/prompts of what drive/partition to choose from for
the installation. Nor do I get the screen, to choose "install Windows" or
"Repair
an installation" like I get when I install 32bit XP.

My drives config is:
Primaey IDE: Master - Pioneer dvdrw
Seconday - Pioneer dvdrw

Second IDE: Master - (the one ide hard drive on my system)
Secondary - None

Sata 1 - sata hd
sata 2 - sata hd
Sata 3 - Sata HD
Sata 4 - None
(I beleive those 3 are on the Nvidia controller)

Then 2 more Sata drives on the Promise controller in a jbod config)

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:46:56 GMT, wrote:


On 26-Oct-2007, Roger Hamlett wrote:

Vista64, can be a bit 'odd' about it's installation.

It probably doesnt matter, but this is not Vista64 ... regular old
Windows XP Pro,
X64 Edition.

When I start the Win64 cd, it immediately goes to "Setup is copying files"
Is there any way, I can at least see what, if any, hard drives it is seeing?
Because I get no choice/prompts of what drive/partition to choose from for
the installation. Nor do I get the screen, to choose "install Windows" or
"Repair
an installation" like I get when I install 32bit XP.

My drives config is:
Primaey IDE: Master - Pioneer dvdrw
Seconday - Pioneer dvdrw

Second IDE: Master - (the one ide hard drive on my system)
Secondary - None

Sata 1 - sata hd
sata 2 - sata hd
Sata 3 - Sata HD
Sata 4 - None
(I beleive those 3 are on the Nvidia controller)

Then 2 more Sata drives on the Promise controller in a jbod config)

i have come across a similar issue once before, tho XP 32 bit

try unplugging the IDE hard drive & setting system to boot from DVD
first, then SATA drive 2

good luck

On 2-Nov-2007, wrote:

i have come across a similar issue once before, tho XP 32 bit

try unplugging the IDE hard drive & setting system to boot from DVD
first, then SATA drive 2

I had already tried unplugging ALL the hardddrives except the
one SATA I wanted to be the OS drive (a Western Digital RAPTOR 10k rpm)
didnt matter, same results.

There is no option in the bios to specify WHICH hard drive boots. Just
generic Harddrive.

I have it currently set for:
1. CDROM
2, HardDrive
3. HardDrive
4. HardDrive

(As I dont remember but I beleive it doesnt give NONE as an option
so I just picked Harddrive for everything after the dvd drive, in the bios)

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On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:46:56 GMT, wrote:


On 26-Oct-2007, Roger Hamlett
wrote:

Vista64, can be a bit 'odd' about it's installation.

It probably doesnt matter, but this is not Vista64 ... regular old
Windows XP Pro,
X64 Edition.

When I start the Win64 cd, it immediately goes to "Setup is copying
files"
Is there any way, I can at least see what, if any, hard drives it is
seeing?
Because I get no choice/prompts of what drive/partition to choose from for
the installation. Nor do I get the screen, to choose "install Windows" or
"Repair
an installation" like I get when I install 32bit XP.

My drives config is:
Primaey IDE: Master - Pioneer dvdrw
Seconday - Pioneer dvdrw

Second IDE: Master - (the one ide hard drive on my system)
Secondary - None

Sata 1 - sata hd
sata 2 - sata hd
Sata 3 - Sata HD
Sata 4 - None
(I beleive those 3 are on the Nvidia controller)

Then 2 more Sata drives on the Promise controller in a jbod config)

i have come across a similar issue once before, tho XP 32 bit

try unplugging the IDE hard drive & setting system to boot from DVD
first, then SATA drive 2

good luck

Hardware config?

On Fri, 2 Nov 2007 22:38:38 GMT, wrote:


There is no option in the bios to specify WHICH hard drive boots. Just
generic Harddrive.

yup, there will be, but you'll have to check with manual as to how to
access the list.
the page in bios I have in mind will list ALL hard drives connected
and allow you to select which drive it boots from


I have it currently set for:
1. CDROM
2, HardDrive
3. HardDrive
4. HardDrive

(As I dont remember but I beleive it doesnt give NONE as an option
so I just picked Harddrive for everything after the dvd drive, in the bios)

On 3-Nov-2007, wrote:

yup, there will be, but you'll have to check with manual as to how to
access the list.
the page in bios I have in mind will list ALL hard drives connected
and allow you to select which drive it boots from


The main page of the bios lists all drives, but I see no option to
select which drive boots, from there.

Then in the page called "BOOT" there is another couple pages,
one called "Hard Drives" .... again, no option in there to specify which
harddrive boots. There is another page within the BOOT page specifically
callled "Boot Device Priority" ..... it is in there, that I get the option
for
cdrom, hard disk, etc. But not a specific harddrive, just "Hard drive"
period.

wrote:
Then in the page called "BOOT" there is another couple pages,
one called "Hard Drives" .... again, no option in there to specify which
harddrive boots.

What you need is in this page. Asus just didn't make it obvious. You
need to put the drives on this page in the order you want the computer
to boot from them.

Use your arrow keys to select the drive you with to have boot first,
then use the + or - key to move the drive up or down the list.

Same thing with the CDROM drive list, if you have multiple CD/DVD drives.

The instructions on how to do it are there on the right side of the
screen, but I didn't quite understand them until I played with it a
little. (And this is about my 20th computer build)


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On 3-Nov-2007, Outback Jon wrote:

Use your arrow keys to select the drive you with to have boot first,
then use the + or - key to move the drive up or down the list.

Yeah, the drive order I wanted, is set in that section.

I guess that win 64 is just gonna be a no go on this system.
I still suspect it is a chipset driver issue (Nvidia) ...as I have no
floppy drive, impossible for me to select "F6 for 3rd party..." during
install. But I'd still think, it would at least see the one ide drive
I have installled, Unless I can find a way to slipstream this win 64
cd, I guess Win XP 64 is gonna be a bust on this system.

wrote:
On 3-Nov-2007, Outback Jon wrote:

Use your arrow keys to select the drive you with to have boot first,
then use the + or - key to move the drive up or down the list.

Yeah, the drive order I wanted, is set in that section.

I guess that win 64 is just gonna be a no go on this system.
I still suspect it is a chipset driver issue (Nvidia) ...as I have no
floppy drive, impossible for me to select "F6 for 3rd party..." during
install. But I'd still think, it would at least see the one ide drive
I have installled, Unless I can find a way to slipstream this win 64
cd, I guess Win XP 64 is gonna be a bust on this system.

Or pick up a cheap floppy. Or temporarily pull one out of another
computer. You only need it until the install is done.

I'm running XP64 on an A8N-SLI Premium. But I did have the floppy to
work with.

For slipstreaming, try nLite. http://www.nliteos.com/index.html
I made a nice bootable XP CD (haven't tried it with x64 yet)
I did find that I couldn't slipstream *both* SATA drivers into the CD.
I might have been doing something wrong though. I thought I had done
both, but when I got tried using it, it only had one of the SATA drivers
set up.

Also, I have no experience with it, but I have heard that it might be
possible to use a USB thumb drive in place of the floppy. Can't even
point you in the right direction for that one though.


--
"Outback" Jon - KC2BNE

AMD Opteron 146 ) and 6.1 GHz of other AMD power...
http://folding.stanford.edu - got folding? Team 53560

2006 ZG1000A Concours "Blueline" COG# 7385 CDA# 0157
1980 CB750F SuperSport == For Sale $1200