On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:33:59 -0500, "Rhino"
<> wrote:
>I want to install Windows XP Professional on a newly built computer that
>includes the ASUS M3A motherboard. I'm having some problems and hope that
>the gurus here can help.
>
>I have two Seagate 750 GB hard drives that were originally set up in a RAID1
>configuration. However, when I went to install XP, I could not get it to see
>the drives no matter what I tried. (Yes, I did press F6 in the first several
>seconds of the install so that it would allow extra configuration for RAID
>but I could not get it to read the drivers from the CD that came with the
>motherboard.) When that failed, I deleted the LBA and set the two drives
>back to being two independent IDE drives.
The driver has to be on a floppy.
>
>After that, I was able to proceed with the XP install and XP saw both
>drives. However, XP was only able to see the first 137 GB of each of the
>drives. I formatted the first 137 GB of each drive with NTFS and the XP
>install completed normally.
>
>I've been trying to find out the right way to make XP see the rest of those
>drives and have come across various posts on websites suggesting solutions.
>Unfortunately, most of these posts are for a slightly different situation:
>they ask how to add a hard drive that is larger than 137 GB to a computer
>that already has XP installed and running. Even then, the answers vary from
>BIOS upgrades to installing XP SP1.
>
>What is the best way for me to handle this issue? If I install SP1 on this
>computer now, won't I have to reformat the drives entirely and reinstall XP
>again? And then have to install SP1 again and then install XP and then
>install SP1 again, over and over in a loop? Or will SP1 preserve what is on
>the hard drives now and simply allow me to format the part of the two drives
>that is currently unformatted?? A BIOS upgrade doesn't seem to make sense
>here since the date on the BIOS is 2007, which surely must be new enough to
>cope with very large hard drives.
If you want Wndows XP setup to see past 137 GB on hard drives, the XP
CD must incorporate SP1 or later. Slipstream the service pack into the
XP CD.
>
>If someone could enlighten me on my best strategy here, I would be VERY
>grateful!!
>
>--
>
>One other question. After installing XP on my new computer, I tried to go
>online via my DSL connection. This failed. I found that I had no ethernet
>controller in Network Connections. When I checked Device Manager, I found
>yellow question marks on the Ethernet Controller, PCI Controller, SM Bus
>Controller, Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller, Unknown Device (twice),
>and Video Controller (VGA Compatible).
Install the device drivers (AMD chipset, LAN, video, sound, etc.).
>
>What is my best strategy to resolving all those yellow question marks? I
>believe that they indicate driver issues but I'm not sure how to make them
>go away.
>
>I don't get involved with hardware issues very much so forgive the lame
>questions.
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