how to change boot order sata -> ide on a asus a7n8x?

[dgr]

how to change boot order sata -> ide on a asus a7n8x?

hello

i have a sata raptor () set up as my main drive, replacing a WD120gbide drive, on which the windows installation was buggered.

THe problem is the MB ALWAYS boots in preference of ide over sata, so wheever i attach the ide drive, it tries (and fails) to boot off the ide drive. Regardless of bios boot order changes.

THe question is - how can i make the ide drive non bootable? or should i go into windows xp disc, mount onto the ide drive and delete /winnt/? if the latter, are there any other files i need to delete? (including boot secotr???)

cheers

dgr

[jon bda]

Have you set the 1st boot device to SCSI?.

[dgr]

hmm, nope - i don't believe it gives you that option though???

dgr

[Stoo]

Change the drive on the p-ata connection to non-active for a start..

[itsanobscureid]

if i were you i'd disconnect all the ide drives - then boot from the windows cd - press f6 to install scsi drivers - use the drivers u have - then install windows onto the only drive detected and connected .....

after u've got it up and running sweet - you can reconnect the ide drives ....

well thats how i did it

hope it helps, d

[dgr]

jon bda@ sorry, i checked and that worked fine

cheers for the info guys!

dgr

[haroon]

Hello

I found this in google after failing to boot xp on my desktop from SATA DVD Writer.
The system i use is AMD Sempron,(2.0 GHZ, 256 RAM) it had both IDE and Sata options but the both HDD and DVD Rom were IDE, As i mentioned it had DVD ROM only and I needed to burn dvds so bought new SATA LG supermulti drive, it was working fine i used to burn even multi layer dvds till today when i found my xp stoped working and says about a missing file, i thought to reinstall it (and thanks God i always keep data on other drives)
Placed bootable XP CD in Sata drive and Selected 1st boot option as CD, but it wont do the job i tried many times to reboot and see but i failed. The XP CD is new and i installed it several other systems,

How should i resolve this problem. (the Old IDE DVD is out of order now so cannt use that one any more)

THANK YOU

Haroon

[dodgybob]

The SATA is implemented via an a silicon image chip on that motherboard, so setting the BIOS to choose CD as 1st boot is likely failing due to it looking for a parallel CD/DVD drive when you're using SATA.

Your best bet is to choose 1st boot device as SCSI, as that is how the board sees the SATA. If I recall, once the motherboard BIOS has loaded, the SATA BIOS follows it at boot, you may need to select the SATA DVD drive on that as 1st device too.

[haroon]

Hello

Thanks for the reply, actually i went through that option too but faild, it also didnt worked in XP till i installed VRAID Driver in XP,
I didnt installed VRaid drivers in begaining of the Setup.

Do i have to update bios menu or something?
Do i have to change some other options and then SCSI as first boot?
Or there is some other problem in Mother Board which it prevents for not doing so?

I also tried it by choosing SCSI as first boot option in menu before windows starting

Haroon