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

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

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

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

dgr

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

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

jon bda@ sorry, i checked and that worked fine

cheers for the info guys!

dgr

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

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.

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