TomG Re:IS7 - SATA Boot Issue .. XP

[John (102)]

Tom,
Sorry to make a new post but AOL isn't showing my post yet I can see it using another ISP's newsgroup. However, I can't post to this group from that ISP for some odd reason ... anyway:

Yes, your synopsis just about sums it up Tom. It goes through POST and then hangs after Updating DMI Pool. I’ve tried to boot with ICH5R SATA controller set to enhanced mode IDE and running as IDE 3 & 4 and it just won’t boot if the Maxtor drive is cabled.

Have also tried the Auto setting as well. In fact, without the Maxtor drive cabled and just trying to boot XP off the Raptor, I have to change the setting from Enhanced to Auto. Plus, under Hard Disk Boot Priority, I always need to put the Raptor back on the top of the list because it always changes when the OnChip Serial ATA mode is changed.

I think I’m going to try a utility a friend has called Delpart and delete all the partitions on the Maxtor and see if that solves the problem. I just have a feeling that with XP on the Maxtor, the boot loader sees two copies of XP and is not letting the Raptor boot. Something to try at least.

John

 

[John (205)]

Update: Running the utility Delpart on the Maxtor drive solved one of the boot problems. Apparently, XP won’t boot if there is another drive present that also has XP on it. After running Delpart the system booted the Raptor … however, it still will only boot with OnChip Serial ATA set to Auto. Once XP booted from the Raptor, XP could not see the CD drive but did see the Maxtor, configuration was as follows:
Raptor SATA1 IDE3
Sony CD-R IDE1 Master
Maxtor 40G IDE2 Master

Changed to the following configuration and XP booted from the Raptor and saw both the CD drive and the 40G Maxtor. BTW, the system still will only boot with OnChip Serial ATA set to Auto. Raptor SATA1IDE3 Maxtor 40G IDE1 Master Sony CD-R IDE1 Slave

Can’t imagine the fun I’m going to have adding a CD burner.

Looks as though BIOS 16 needs some more work because the other IS7 I built (BIOS 13) worked just fine having the CD and Maxtor on IDE1 and IDE2 respectively with the OnChip Serial ATA set to Enhanced mode.

John

John wrote:

Tom,
Sorry to make a new post but AOL isn't showing my post yet I can see it using another ISP's newsgroup. However, I can't post to this group from that ISP for some odd reason ... anyway:

Yes, your synopsis just about sums it up Tom. It goes through POST and then hangs after Updating DMI Pool. I’ve tried to boot with ICH5R SATA controller set to enhanced mode IDE and running as IDE 3 & 4 and it just won’t boot if the Maxtor drive is cabled.

Have also tried the Auto setting as well. In fact, without the Maxtor drive cabled and just trying to boot XP off the Raptor, I have to change the setting ...

 

[TomG]

good luck with that approach. seems to me the system should at least try to boot and then get confused if it is the two copies of XP being the problem...

 

[TomG]

I have seen other posts saying that you had to be in "Auto" mode on the SATA channel to boot with a hard drive on SATA and on regular IDE.