Need some help with SN26P

[tecgriff]

I'm not sure if this is the right place to put this or not but if it needs to be moved so be it. Anyhow, I just got a new SN26P shuttle last night and I was putting it together, setting up windows xp etc. Well during the setup of windows I got a couple of blue screens and a couple of weird copy errors I haven't seen before.

I figured maybe it was just a bad CD or something and I wanted to see if it would make it to windows before I went to get a different one. Well I made it to desktop and everything seemed OK so I installed the drivers that came with the shuttle. After installing the nvidia IDE driver I think it was, I got some errors and I was forced to reboot.

Upon rebooting I got a "disk read failure, press ctrl+alt+delete to restart" so I then proceeded to say "******" and rebooted, getting the same error. To try to shorten this up, my SATA HDD gets a disk read error on starting and it also locks up when booting from a CD, right after it says "setup is inspecting your hardware..." and it just sits on a black screen locked up. I've tried different SATA cables and tried using molex power instead of SATA power etc. The drive is still recognized in the CMOS setup but like I said it doesnt seem to be reading. My old 60GB IDE drive works just fine and none of that stuff happens.

If anyone could help me out if it is a shuttle issue or something, please let me know! thanks a lot

 

[aigomorla]

Are u trying to install XP that has SP2 slip streamed or a SP2 integrated version? Because windows XP pre SP2 doesnt have the proper SATA drivers. You should goto shuttle and make a SATA driver disk and press i believe f6 to run third party drivers at install. I had a simular problem on another system using SATA as bootup.

I hope this helps~

 

[tecgriff]

thanks for the help man, it turned out to be TWO defective hard drives, one SATA one IDE, which both worked in my old computer and I guess JUST died, thanks for the help and advice though =)