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Just completed my first new build,tried to install xp. seemed to go as planned at first,hit f6 to enter sata drivers ,nothing happened.After a short while I was prompted to reset,did so and windows started copying files.After another short while got error message OXOOOOOO7B (OXF7C7A524,OXCOOOOO34,OXOOOOOOOO,OXOOOOOOOO0) What now? Do I need to reset cmos and start over,what about any files already copied.Any suggestions would be appreciated!
Asus p5b motherboard
intel E4500 cpu
xfx 8600gt 512mb video card
WD 250 gig sata HD
asus sata optical drive
kingston ram
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Windows xp install on new build,newbie is stumped
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Posted 10 March 2008 - 06:40 AM
If you have included an answer file in your installation CD you will not be able to use F6 to get the mass storage drivers from floppy.
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Posted 12 March 2008 - 06:52 AM
Please don't take this as an offence to your knowledge 
, but I have seen it happen so many times that it is a possibility, and your report seem to go accordingly.
You do not have by any chance one of those "smart" keyboards where Function Keys are actually implemented as "Second Function"?
In the early stages of booting, you might need to press the "Fn" button to enable them, from what you write it seems like the "F6" keypress is not sensed.....
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, but I have seen it happen so many times that it is a possibility, and your report seem to go accordingly.You do not have by any chance one of those "smart" keyboards where Function Keys are actually implemented as "Second Function"?
In the early stages of booting, you might need to press the "Fn" button to enable them, from what you write it seems like the "F6" keypress is not sensed.....
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Posted 14 March 2008 - 03:16 PM
Your motherboard is quite new and you have a SATA hard drive. Try going into the BIOS and looking for an option like "SATA Legacy emulation" or something like that. This will allow the XP installer to recognize the HDD without any drivers. Once you finish installing go back to the BIOS and set it to native mode.
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Posted 14 March 2008 - 04:30 PM
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Posted 14 March 2008 - 04:53 PM
Dumb question....do you have either an internal floppy drive or a USB floppy drive hooked up? You need this to install the sata drivers
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Posted 15 March 2008 - 04:20 PM
I have had errors like that before. Two things for you to do: 1: make sure you do a FULL format of the HD when asked which method of format to use. 2: if your SATA optical drive has a jumper to select master or slave, set it to slave. Windows XP can be one picky bugger when installing.
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Posted 20 March 2008 - 11:02 AM
Mt.Dew, on Mar 15 2008, 05:20 PM, said:
... 2: if your SATA optical drive has a jumper to select master or slave, set it to slave. ...
I think master & slave do not apply to SATA. On a drive I just installed there are jumper pins, but documentation says they are only for the ATA (EIDE) version of the drive.
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