K8N and Seagate Sata Drive

Tried with both xp home and pro both with service pack 2. No luck. I have a
160 Gig IDE drive that I was going to put on for storage with the Sata 320
but I might put the IDE as my boot drive now to try and solve the problem.

"Paul" <nospam.DeleteThis@needed.com> wrote in message news:fbqr0d$hvk$1@aioe.org...
> JKBK wrote:
>> Just got my motherboard back from RMA and picked up a seagate 320 Gig HD
>> to reinstall XP and I`m having major problems. Mainly, the drive is
>> recognized by the MB, both in the bios and on the boot up splash screen
>> but hangs on installing XP when Windows tries to go to the setup/install
>> phase.I`ve tried using the drivers provided on the nforce 3 MB disk but
>> with the same result.
>> Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
>> Jeff
>
> Are you using a WinXP SP1 or SP2 install CD ? Or is your WinXP so old that
> it has no Service Pack integrated ?
>
> If you have an old WinXP disk, you should slipstream in at least the SP1
> service pack, or preferably the SP2 service pack. As far as I know, MS
> is only supporting SP2 now, which is why you'd want to be using it. When
> I did this with my Win2K install disk eons ago, I think I used
> Autostreamer.
> You'll need a CD burner, to burn the resulting ISO9660 file created by
> the slipstreaming process, to a new blank CD.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipstream_%28computing%29
>
> The purpose of SP1 or SP2, is to handle large disks, or to access any
> additional native disk drivers from Microsoft. You also get a USB2 driver,
> which is handy.
>
> Paul
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Narrowed down the problem to Ram but still trying to work around. The board
will boot, install XP and run fine with a no name stick of PC2700 256Mb but
will hang at various points with any of the other 3 sticks of PC3200 512Mb I
have. Ive tried raising the voltage and loosing the ram timings but no joy.
One of these sticks worked with its predecesor before it was RMA`ed so I`m
at a loss for an explanation. I`ll be checking the approved list for new ram
but if anyone can suggest a workaround so I can use my existing Ram I would
appreciate it before I sink any more cash into this white elephant of a
motherboard.
Jeff
"JKBK" <jkbk RemoveThis @shawshaw.ca> wrote in message
news:RV3Ei.134704$fJ5.45157@pd7urf1no...
> Just got my motherboard back from RMA and picked up a seagate 320 Gig HD
> to reinstall XP and I`m having major problems. Mainly, the drive is
> recognized by the MB, both in the bios and on the boot up splash screen
> but hangs on installing XP when Windows tries to go to the setup/install
> phase.I`ve tried using the drivers provided on the nforce 3 MB disk but
> with the same result.
> Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks
> Jeff
>
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