I've just purchased an Asus A8V-VM motherboard, but I can't get Windows to boot.

I can get into the Bios easily, and my two SATA hard drives are detected (as are the DVD and CD roms).

I thought it might be the power supply, so purchased a better one (530 watt ATX 2). I also thought it might be necessary to re-install Windows, but windows cannot detect the hard drives from CD?

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jon.

Sounds like XP hasn't got the relevant SATA drivers on it? Did you get a floppy disk with the SATA drivers on them with the motherboard? If you did, when Windows Installer prompts to load thrid party drivers, press F6 and insert the floppy...

Rob.

have you taken an old install of windows and changed the board? it'll sometimes work, but often doesn't. when it doesn't, you're probably screwed.

try a repair install...

I agree with lanwomble, this is a typical problem of getting an old install of XP to boot from a new motherboard. A repair install should fix the problem, if you have never done this before then here is how.

1) set bios to boot from cdrom and HD second.

2) boot from XP cd and when prompted press any key to boot from CD.

3) when prompted for "R" to repair or enter to install windows press enter and not R

4) XP setup should find your existing install and offer you the chance to repair it. This is where you must press R, if you dont then you may endup erasing your current HD.

5) XP will then appear to go through an install phase (prompt for key etc.) but when finished all your settings and programs will be preserved.

If this is XP home you will most likely need to reactivate windows as the hardware is very different.

also if you ain't got an xp sp2 cd then get the SATA drivers on floppy. hit f6 on install and stick the disk in.

repair installs are a bit hit and miss. unless you really need not to, i'd suggest backing up and doing a clean install. it nearly always works out easier...

Agreed for definite on all comments so far - SATA was not really all that common when XP came out, so support is still cr*p out of the box (unless you have SP2 as mentioned).

Other options are to stream the sata drivers onto a bootable CDR, but that's a fair bit of work for this purpose I suppose

Yeah you need sata drivers for XP.

XP has dreadful support for most SCSI and sata built into it tbh.

Thanks for the replies. All sorted now. Had to install the SATA drivers onto a floppy and re-install Windows. Didn't lose anything.

Cheers

When I done mine I just plugged my old IDE drive in and used that to boot, then installed SATA drivers from there. Easy as pie.