SATA AHCI Install - Help !

[ten80p]

Several hours of pain today and no joy

P5K Premium & Q6600 & XP Pro 32bit SP2 slipsteamed

SATA 2 = WD 500Gb AAKS
SATA 4 = Pioneer DVD-RW
IDE = WD 80Gb
Also got FDD

All devices discovered in bios
Wasn't planning on using RAID but maybe SATA AHCI
Set bios to SATA AHCI, reboot back into bios to confirm both SATA drives are discovered with AHCI

Have created 3 seperate floppies as 64bit ICH9R/IMSM "makedisks" for the F6 install

I boot off my DVD with XP SP2, press F6 then when prompted press S to load from floppy, I get the list of drivers and select ICH9R AHCI but get "iastor.sys is corrupt" from all 3 floppies, each floppy from a different source, ie Asus CD, Asus website and Intel download page

Just noticed on the screen where you press S to load from floppy "Setup was unable to load support for the mass storeage device you specified, currently, setup will load support for the following device(s)" - this is even displayed before I press S to load from floppy

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Thing is I've not been asked to specify, I thought you simply boot from DVD then press F6

Any help would be great, so frustrated am thinking of setting as SATA IDE !

 

[Phemo]

I'm a little confused about this...

P5K Premium & Q6600 & XP Pro 32bit SP2 slipsteamed

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Have created 3 seperate floppies as 64bit ICH9R/IMSM "makedisks" for the F6 install

Are you trying to use 64-bit drivers with 32-bit Windows?

 

[ten80p]

I thought the xx bit referred to the processor as opposed to the OS ? if not that's def where I'll have been going wrong - I'll check the readme.txt file

 

[Phemo]

No you'll need the 32-bit drivers for 32-bit Windows even if using a 64-bit CPU. Hopefully that'll sort it out

 

[ten80p]

Thanks for the quick reply, suppose I should move to Vista home premium 64bit really, will give it a try now

ps Intel website makes it clear on their download page that the 32/64 bit relates to the OS, downloading the 32 bit makedisk file to retry prob tomorrow night now, I don't think I'd have double-checked that if you'd not suggested it

Thanks again

 

[ten80p]

Great, this now worked, BIOS set to AHCI, F6 + floppy driver install worked, device manager in XP confirms all ok as far as storeage, disks and controllers go