Re: SK8V - Cannot boot from SATA drive - HEEEELP!!!

OK, I fainally solved the problem. It was a case of a labyrintine BIOS:
before I can assign boot priority to the SATA drive, I have first to access
another menu which defines priority among hard drives (I have an IDE drive
in my system). After this is done now my Raptor appears in the
boot-priority.

Thanks for all the suggestions.

G Couture

"Paul" <nospam@xxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de news:
nospam-2507052219350001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> In article <nygFe.2831$q23.409243@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "G Couture"
> <gcouture66@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I just bought a nice WD Raptor SATA drive for my board. The BIOS detects
>> it,
>> Windows detects it (when I boot from my older IDE drive), but I just
>> can't
>> figure how to boot from the SATA drive. I have fiddled with the board's
>> BIOS
>> settings endlessly, but there seems to be no way I can set the main boot
>> device to be the SATA drive. Anyone has an idea? How the f...k can I
>> install
>> Windows on a SATA drive if I can't set the drive as the boot device?!?
>>
>> G Couture
>
> Have you tried "Interrupt 19 Capture' [Enabled] ?
>
> I have a copy of a document from AMI, and even in there, they remain
> mute on the topic of such things, as how to boot via PXE (LAN boot).
> Interrupt 19 capture is mentioned (a.k.a interrupt 0x13, the interrupt
> routine the OS calls in the BIOS, to read off any device that registers
> itself). But once the BIOS code modules are enabled, the AMI doc
> doesn't mention where the choices offered by these devices, will
> show up.
>
> http://www.megatrends.com/support/doc/MAN-EZP-80.pdf
>
> I would try pressing <f10> just after you turn on the power.
> Someone mentioned a <f10> boot submenu that will popup, and
> perhaps all the boot options will be in there.
>
> In any case, if you solve it, post the answer, so we finally
> know for sure.
>
> Paul


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