Recently I bought a new system (specs will be shown below). But im having problems installing my OS on it. The manufacturer sent the pc with the Os pre-installed (complete with ALL the garbage possible in the install program). Since the system was up and running before its pretty safe to say that all the wiring was done correctly and none of the components are bad. Well to get rid of all the junk that was installed on the pc i tried to reformat, through the installation program (out of a working copy of xp..now giving me a dual boot at startup) and it didnt find the hard drive. So i did a little research into SATA and found out you needed special utilities to format the drive, Downloaded those (from seagate) and got my drive formatted. Well now the real fun begins. I took the drivers off of the mobo cd and tried the pressing F6 during install... well it dosent take 3 of the drivers during the XP setup (dosent terminate setup this way just ends this part of it). Tried to boot off the hard drive next and i got the blue screen saying to check for viruses, uninstall/ reinstall drives/controllers and check the wiring. Since the wiring is good i tried installing XP again. Same probs rejecting those same 3 drivers. BUT it did know there was a setup of xp on the drive, Just wont boot out of bios to the setup. So far ive tried the board drivers on cd and their site (Link given below). Sorry for making this post so long but im trying to give everythign ive done step by step in hopes that someone can help me get xp up and running again on my machine.
System specs:
giga-byte ga-k8n pro n-forece3 mobo
seagate 120 gig ata 150 model # st3120026as
amd64 @ 3.2 gigHz
1gig pc 3200 ram (2x 512 meg)
soundblaster live 5.1 mp3+
ati radeon 6900 pro 256 meg
16x dvd
52x24x52 cd-rw
lucent v.92 modem
1.44 mitsumi floppy
Win XP home
blue neon light
ps2 keyboard
optical ps2 mouse
Motherboard drivers Site. (Downloaded the sata raid drivers)
http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard...-K8N%20Pro.htm
Seagate formatting program.
http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html
(Downloaded and ran the starter edition to format)
Ive read through the boards on sata related problems like this and ive already tried everything mentioned there... and i cant seem to find the disk that should have been suplied to install a SATA drive with the mb.
Thanks in advance.