[Kaldar]

as you guys know i built my pc and had a bit of trouble with the pin connectors, thats all done with (i think lol)... i started up my pc for the first time everything seemed ok except..... it didn't detect my harddrive, i tried everything i could think of, changing the sata connectors around, changing the jumpers etc... then i finally got to one setup with the jumpers where when i loaded it, it detected my hd.....(5-6 on the jumpers)

then after that i went into my bios and set up the boot order to first my cd rom driver, then hd. after that i put the windows xp cd in and restarted, everything was going perfect untill i got to the end.... it said i didn't have a hard drive? i was like WTF!!!!!!!!! so after about an hour or two or me screwing around, i decided to ask you guys. plesae any help at all, heres my hard drive:

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16822135106

my psu:

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16817103931

and my mobo

http://www.newegg.com/product/produc...82E16813131541

[niceguyrichy]

you installed sata drivers for your hdd yet?

[davidnsibs]

http://www.hothardware.com/forum/mes...&enterthread=y

this might be of some help

[Kaldar]

yeah, i was looking around last night and i realized, i needed to get drivers for it, lol. but the problem is i DONT have a floppy drive so i looked into slipstreaming.... but eh i'm still confused on which files to slipstream onto the disc for my drivers.

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

You want the file that's under the drivers section...usually like WIN_2k or WIN_XP and then there should be an inf file, and a dll file with the same name

[Kaldar]

but i mean, do i use the ones that came with my motherboard or do i need to download the western digital drivers

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

The ones that came with your mobo are the ones to use

[Kaldar]

im a bit confused of what to use off my motherboard disc, alot of files came with, like 500mb worth of files. it has four folders.... bin, drivers, manual, software... i'm guessing in drivers, but in tehre it breaks downinto more: 4in1, audio, amd, lan, promise, usb2 and viaraid

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

Your mobo is similar to mine then. You want viaraid.

[Kaldar]

ok but the viaraid folder is 10mb so when i open it up, it says "6420raid" then i click that, and it goes into a folder that looks like this:

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

Now you go into SATA

Not 10 seconds ago I was listening to Iced Earth

[Kaldar]

just copy the sata to a floppy and i'm done?

oh yeah and haha iced earth owns

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

Yeah should be OK. Gotta make sure the file txtsetup.oem is in the folder too

[niceguyrichy]

Originally Posted by Kaldar

yeah, i was looking around last night and i realized, i needed to get drivers for it, lol. but the problem is i DONT have a floppy drive

I had that problem.
don't understand why xp needs a floppy drive, I haven't used one in years

anyway, hope you got it sorted.
sometimes you don't need drivers, you just have to disable raid0 function in the bios just btw.

[Kaldar]

where in the bios would that be?

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

That won't fix it....that'll just break any RAID arrays that are there, the controller itself needs the same driver I believe. VIA chipsets are like that

[Kaldar]

ahhhhhh i don't know what to do, this is indeed myfirst build so i may of missed over some the most basic things. i tried that sata thing and it didn't work. what if i didn't hook up my floppy drive right? =/ lol i mean the floppy drive is about 6 or more years old lol i hijacked it from my ancient computer. i even tried with an ide hard drive but it wouldn't let me format the drive or something GRRRRRRr

any ideas at all guys? i could try again with the drivers i guess butttttttt idk

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

If you look in the zip file and sort by Folder name I believe there is a directory that says "FLoppy setup" or something similar, that folder is what you need on the disk

[Kaldar]

there is a program called "makedisk" and i did that and it told me to put a floppy disc in the drive, so i did it copied a bunch of files to it. so then i pressed f6 when it started up and when it asked for them, i put it in and pressed enter.......it waited a few seconds then went bac kto the same screen, wtf??? you guys think i may of hooked up my floppy driver wrong?

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

The floppy is hooked up wrong if the light is always green

[Kaldar]

lol yeah..... i think that MAY be it, becuase whenever i happened to glance down at my pc the light was green. lol =/

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

The end with the twist is the one you want to reverse, it should be connected to the drive itself

[Kaldar]

ok i got a bit farther this time, my floppy drive actually works this time but when it asked for the drivers it was loading them etcetc it told me to select which one and i chose for xp then it said it had an unexpected error with like oemdisk.c or something? i tried like 10 different floppys with different drivers (the via chipset ones, hd ones, asus ones etc)

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

Maybe the drive is too old? Floppy drives tend to die when used very infrequently I find

[Kaldar]

but it WORKED, as i said i had like 10 different drivers on my floppy disk and one of them worked but it wasnt the right one rofl so technically it didnt work =/

[Kaldar]

and when i said "my floppy drive actually worked" i meant, before i hooked it up wrong so thats what i was referring too lol

[Kaldar]

not to rush anything but uh any help? i want to use the pc i built so bad.

[H3X4D3C1M4L]

Keep fiddling till you find the right drivers.

Or find a friend whose actually done this before, or phone the tech support for your mobo I mean hey part of what you pay for is for them to have to figure this crap out.

The driver on the floppy that came with the mobo has to work or they did something wrong