For some reason I can't get my K8NXP-SLI to boot from SATA disk.
I am attempting to install XP SP2 (which seems to already have drivers for the nVidia chipset). I can boot from CD, and the drive is recognized. I can partition it, and install to it, but upon reboot it's as if the drive doesn't exist.
I can see the drive if I go into the RAID configuration, but i'm not using RAID so I don't create any arrays. I've tried both the nVidia ports (orange) and the SI ports (red). Same deal.
The manual is worthless, all it does is list all the settings, with no discussion on what they do.
This doesn't seem to be an XP driver issue, since it's not even starting the boot process. it seems to be a BIOS related issue, since if I leave the XP CD in the drive, it just tries to boot into that again as if there were no hard drive recognized.
I have no PATA devices other than my CD-Rom and DVD-Rom, and they're on the second channel.
I've seen mention that SATA should be selected in the boot order, but it isn't listed. Also, under boot devices it only lists add-in cards.
Anyone have any idea how to solve this? I can't believe I have to use a PATA boot disk.
I am attempting to install XP SP2 (which seems to already have drivers for the nVidia chipset). I can boot from CD, and the drive is recognized. I can partition it, and install to it, but upon reboot it's as if the drive doesn't exist.
I can see the drive if I go into the RAID configuration, but i'm not using RAID so I don't create any arrays. I've tried both the nVidia ports (orange) and the SI ports (red). Same deal.
The manual is worthless, all it does is list all the settings, with no discussion on what they do.
This doesn't seem to be an XP driver issue, since it's not even starting the boot process. it seems to be a BIOS related issue, since if I leave the XP CD in the drive, it just tries to boot into that again as if there were no hard drive recognized.
I have no PATA devices other than my CD-Rom and DVD-Rom, and they're on the second channel.
I've seen mention that SATA should be selected in the boot order, but it isn't listed. Also, under boot devices it only lists add-in cards.
Anyone have any idea how to solve this? I can't believe I have to use a PATA boot disk.