yea thats the bitch
i suppoze most of us use xp with sp3 slipped in the mickey
so we dont get all dry and have problems with the hole shot
save me best? its gettin worse
Was it changing Sata mode to ATA from AHCI by any chance?
From my memory it didn't work in my case. A lot of people do recomend nLiting windows installation with SATA drivers instead of using floppy disk via F6 function. Aparently it doesn't work for everyone.
roma, if you decide to do it a proper way here is the with good instructions.
yea thats the bitch
i suppoze most of us use xp with sp3 slipped in the mickey
so we dont get all dry and have problems with the hole shot
save me best? its gettin worse
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Hi every one I have tried all the munched before with no luck removed the memory, BIOS settings…and I steel have the some problem the only thing I didn’t try is Vista OS which I don’t have.
hey Roma, is your dvd drive sata, or IDE?
Hi the drive is IDE.
Hi I dont have one but the dvd drive seems to work fine as is reads the cd and takes me to a stage before starting to format the disc and then before formating I get that error.
have you pulled out the extra 2gb ram yet
im sic of sayin it
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i agree with osirus. had the same problem about 2 weeks ago. vista installed straight away but xp wouldnt. needed to install drivers through the F6 boot option then all was well. was hard finding the right drivers thou. check the motherboards wbb site and also what chipset u are using
Hi Osirus no I don’t get that message & phillthequad I did try to remove one of the memories swipe them around with no luck the OS I’m using is XP professional SP2
That is what I get on the screan
Last edited by roma; 02-07-09 at 09:56 PM.
hello roma
since you have tried every thing so far, and not winning, let's try to help you out a bit further.
what is your location, maybe someone from our Austech members is near you and can have a look at this machine of yours.
if your in or near the Riverina Region in NSW, I will be happy to give you a hand.
cheers
You should just leave 2GB of ram out of the motherboard until the problem is corrected, even 1 GB would be plenty (just install 1 stick of Ram)
I still think it is pointing toward a hard drive problem, (XP not finding it)
Your CD runs until you get to Format the Hard drive, (then there is a problem with the Hard Drive,)
I would be finding the Motherboard Sata drivers on the Gigabyte site for XP 32 bit & put them on Floppy & try to install them using the F6 at boot up, (don't forget to extract drivers from a Zip file)
but you may have to enable the floppy in Bios to see the floppy,
If that doesn't work I would be slipstreaming the sata driver into the XP Boot disc using nlite,
your problem sounds very familiar to what I had & fixed by inserting the Sata Drivers into the install
PhillTheQuad & best4less could well be right about a setting in BIOS to fix this, but I do not know exactly what that setting is, (I would like to learn this too),
Being a newly built Computer it is possible that you have a hardware problem (with your hard Drive or something else), or an assembly error,
just my opinion
Good Luck
Edit: what area do you live mate?
Last edited by OSIRUS; 02-07-09 at 10:28 PM.
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Hi baseel I'm from melbourne western suburbs.
Sorry mate, I'm in the Newcastle Hunter Valley NSW area,
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if you're willing to try one more, start the setup from the cd again and at the very start of it press the F7 key and hold in for a while. This usually forces the setup to load basic HAL and no ACPI support.
Also, if there is any special settings for memory mapping or relocating in the bios, disable them.
I'd say you try it, nothing to loose.
Just found this,
thought it may help,
about installing XP on your GA-EP45-UD3 Motherboard,
I don't think you need to configue Raid though, if you don't want too,
other reading is interesting
Last edited by OSIRUS; 02-07-09 at 11:44 PM.
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Hi dgtalent i'ts no good.
Hi Osirus Ihave tryed it i'ts no good again Thanks
mate go back and read post#12, 17 and 37. This should absolutely solve your problem. If not, go back and try again, slowly and have patience
Anyway, in bios make sure:
- sata is set to ide or normal mode
- no RAID.... disable
- no memory remapping or relocating
... and use the sata drivers that came with board in the floppy drive (it won't work from usb).
... and use ram sticks in pairs.
... and remove any PCI card before starting install.
... might also need to try with a different video card.
Last edited by DGTalent; 03-07-09 at 01:42 AM.
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