Re: K7S5A and installing an OS

What rookie, how in the world can he install motherboard drivers when he
can't get past partitioning?

1. Quit using that partition program.

2. I would imagine that you have partitioned in some other format rather
than NTFS? Then what is left of the drive the 7XXX portion you are
partitioning in NTFS?

3. When XP asks about the partitions, Delete whatever you have there from
that program, then recreate the entire partition using the XP program,
making it all an NTFS partition.

4. Once you get past this segment XP will walk you through the rest of the
setup. Go through with it. The real litmus test of your BIOS settings will
not be revealed till you get to the GUI. Once in you will then need to
install the rest of the drivers for your system. I would suggest having the
BIOS setup properly before installing Windows, many headaches will be
avoided this way, follow the manual for the most direct and popular choices
for your hardware.


"Buffalo" <eric(nospam)@xyz.com> wrote in message
news:mBRJa.7568$ ...
> First of all, did you install the MB drivers?
> One quick thing to try is to Clear the BIOS.
> Shutdown and unplug. Put the 'clear' jumper on the proper pins for around
> 30+ seconds and then remove the jumper. Power up and try again after
setting
> the proper FSB and Memory speed. (Should probably be 133/133).
> In the Advance Setup Page of the BIOS, set the Timing Setting Mode to
> Normal and the SDR/DDR Cas Latency to SPD.
> When you get it all runnng properly, you can go back to the Timing Setting
> Mode and kick it up a bit.
>
> "mrhandi" <> wrote in message
> news: ...
> > My wife has been begging me to upgrade her computer for the past
> > several months, so I saw fryes had a good deal going on the K7S5A pro
> > and an XP 2200+. She doesnt need anything fancy, so I figured this
> > would be perfect for her.
> >
> > It seemed like the upgrade was working like a charm. The board posted
> > and recognized all the drives on the first try. I went ahead with the
> > install of XP and everything seemed to be great. The install
> > finished, the machine rebooted, but then crash without warning. I
> > removed the XP disc and tried to boot from the hard drive, but it
> > didnt find the hard drive.
> >
> > After trying a few more times to get it going I put the XP disc back
> > in and tried to re-install XP. This time when it came up and asked
> > which partition I wanted to use it showed the drive as only being 7831
> > meg, instead of the 20 or so gig that it should have. It also said
> > that it was "unknown" instead of NTFS. So I went ahead and tried to
> > let windows format it. It goes through and tries to format then says
> > that it can not format it and the disc may be damaged.
> >
> > So know I am a little confused and grab another 20 gig hard drive that
> > I had laying around. I format this disc on my other machine using
> > partition manager. The drive formats just fine like I would expect.
> > Install the drive to the computer I am trying to upgrade and start the
> > installation again. It comes to the point asking which partition
> > again, and reports the drive size as 7831 and "unknown." This
> > bothers me a bit so I take the drive out and install it back on my
> > machine that is working. Fire up partition manager and it now says
> > that the drive has one partition that is around the 20 gig mark, but
> > not format (free) and another partition that is (yup you guessed it)
> > 7.8 gig and is called "invalid."
> >
> > It allows me to delete the invalid partition and reformat the original
> > 20 gig. I set the drive active and reboot the computer, everything
> > seems to be working great. The drive allows me to move items to and
> > from it.
> >
> > Once again I take that drive to the upgrading computer and check that
> > drive in the bios, it shows it as being a 20 gig drive. Wonderful!
> > Now go ahead and try to get XP to install. Once again it shows the
> > drive as being 7831 meg.
> >
> > Being a novice to this, Im not real sure what would be causing this.
> > Both of these 2 drives were working fine before I changed the
> > motherboard. Both of these drives work fine when in a different
> > computer.
> >
> > I would really appreciate any suggestions, as Im tired of sharing my
> > computer with the wife while hers is in pieces. Sorry for the long
> > post and hopefully I gave enough info for some kind soul to help me
> > find my way out of this disaster.
> >
> > Thanks for your time!!!
>
>

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Thanks for the suggestions guys! I dont have time to try them
tonight, but ill let ya know how it goes.

Thanks for the help