ASUS P5WD2 board and a SATA drive setup problems

[oreo]

First let me say thank you to the people who put up with stiffs like me who can't figure out there system. I'll try to explain what I want out of my system, the components of my system and how I have it set up and hopefully someone will be able to figure out my system.

Okay, so I have one SATA drive and that is the only drive I will have on my computer. I don't want a RAID setup and I don't know what that is anyways. I am pretty sure it has to do with multiple drives. I just want my one SATA drive and that is it. I also want to run Windows XP Professional x64 Edition.

Here are my system components:

Motherboard - ASUS P5WD2
CPU - Intel 640 3.2 GHz, 2MB Cache
RAM - DDR2 Gold 2 x 512 OCZ
Graphics Card - ASUS Extreme N6800TD 256M
Hard Drive - Maxtor 300GB Diamond Max 10 SATA 16MB 7200RPM
DVD Writer Drive - Pioneer DVDRW 16x INT IDE DVR-109
DVD Rom Drive - LG DVD 16x INT IDE Model #GDR-8163B
Floppy Drive - Panasonic 3.5" Floppy Drive

Now for my setup:

DVD Rom drive is setup as Primary Master Drive. DVD Writer drive is setup as Primary Slave Drive. They are plugged into the Primary Blue IDE slot of the board. The two Red IDE slots are not being used. The SATA drive is plugged into SATA slot 1 which is the first red slot (2 red slots, 2 black slots on the board). The 2 x 512 RAM are in the first to DIMM slots. The BIOS recognizes everything. Primary Master comes up as the DVD Rom drive, Primary Slave comes up as the DVD Writer drive. Third Master IDE drive is the 300GB SATA drive. Everything else is not detected. I disable everything in the BIOS that I can because I know that can give me errors when I try to install Windows x64 on the Blue Stop Page. Things like Hyper-Threading I leave on. Boot sequence is set to start from the DVD Rom Drive first.

Now when I start the setup, I hit a key to boot from the Windows CD. It loads a bunch of files and then asks me to push F6 to install a third party driver, which I do. Now I have tried installing every single driver that came on CD that came with the ASUS motherboard. The Intel Driver, The ITE8211 Driver and the Silicon Drivers. No matter which one I choose, I still get the Blue Stop Page with the Stop 0x00000 messages.

Hopefully everyone has a better idea of my setup and I hope someone out there can help me get my computer running.

Thanks a bunch!

***Update***

After trying to install the ITE8211 64 bit drive, I went back to the Intel ICH7R SATA RAID driver and this time I didn't get the stop message, but instead I got

" The device associated with following device driver will not work correctly on this computer: \iaStor.sys.

The device driver is not compatible with the x64-based version of Windows your computer is running.

This device driver may be required to complete Windows Setup. Please contact the device manufacturer to obtain drivers compatible with the x-64 based version of Windows"

The first time I installed the Intel ICH7R SATA RAID driver, I got the stop message. I think the ITE8211 driver did something. I think the system is recognizing the drive now, but just requires the right one. Anyone know which it would be for a regular SATA drive and not a SATA RAID driver that I tried previously. I think I just need a plain SATA driver. Here are my choices from the cd that came with the motherboard:

1. Make Intel ICH7 32 bit RAID Driver Disk
2. Make Intel ICH7 64 bit RAID Driver Disk
3. Make ITE8211 32/64bit IDE Driver Disk
4. Make Silicon Image 32bit RAID Driver Disk
5. Make Silicon Image 32bit SATA Driver Disk
6. Make Silicon Image 64bit RAID Driver Disk
7. Make Silicon Image 64bit SATA Driver Disk

I have already made choice number 2 and tried out all the drivers on that disk and got the Stop messages. I also made number 3 and chose the x64 driver. I also got a Stop message. Then I tried all the drivers on choice number 2 again and got the "wrong driver" message above. Anyone know the right driver?

Sorry for the long message again. Thanks again.

[FUGGER]

You need to space your memory for dual channel performance.

You should be plugged into SATA 1

The bios should be set to auto for the sata controller.

You have two different raid controllers. You dont want to load those drivers at start (F6)

It should work without a driver, it should find the sata ide controllers without any problems. I need to try to setup another sata drive. I have raid on my SATA

[Cornel]

If you set the Intel matrix raid controller to normal s-ata controllers, you dont need any drivers. Just WinXP.

[Donnie27]

If you set the Intel matrix raid controller to normal s-ata controllers, you dont need any drivers. Just WinXP.

Not if he's installing an older Pre-Service Pack WinXP.

Donnie27

[Donnie27]

I disable everything in the BIOS that I can because I know that can give me errors when I try to install Windows x64 on the Blue Stop Page. Things like Hyper-Threading I leave on. Boot sequence is set to start from the DVD Rom Drive first.


Try clicking the "Load Optimized Defaults"?
Check your settings for drive "Priority"

I may have missed it but after pressing F6, are you using the drive from a CD-ROM or from a Floppy, these are installed from a Floppy?

Donnie27

[vanovich]

just dont press the f6 butten ,and your instalation will continiu .

[Mesce]

To fix this you need to have both of your cd rom/dvdrom what ever you have on ide in the blue ide slot. This will fix the Blue screen. Make sure you have nothing plugged in the red slots and an optical drive in the blue channel and it should fix it. I had this problem with my p5wd2 also.

[IluvIntel]

I just set my up yesterday on the P5WD2 mobo and plugged a Western Digital SATA II straight into the master socket for the ICH7R southbridge. Installed XP with SP2. No problems.
But to boot with 14 x multi, I have to leave PCIe frequency on "Auto" locking it at a set value and she don't wanna boot !
The same values as my older Asus 925X mobo.
Using Bios v0422, no problems now, just have to wait for CPU re-mount to burn in with Arctic Silver 5 paste. :)