Q: Ok so after a few weeks of Vista Business goodness, my plant has died and I could not fix it, or eventually even in safe mode. Well now I wiped my hard drive and I try to reinstall. Asus A8N
I have an SLI-DLX Nf4 mobo, with a wd800jd (or similar) 80g SATA HD. Before I was with NTFS and iterraid.sys things, but I realized I no SATA controller drivers.
So now when I load Vista I install the Silicon Image drivers 3114r5, believed to originate Compatible with RC2 (no new editions), I get a black screen partmgr.sys missing or damaged somewhere in the installation process.
I only one HD, but it seems I still need the SATA controller, install correctly? I have NVRaid disabled in the bios, as it always has been, but I needed to Nf4 chipset drivers to install for installation too?
I know that everything more or less compatible, as Ive been using Vista business purposes, or already on this machine.
Any help on how to partition the problem, or both RAID Silicon Image controller and the nv or using NvRaid instead off, it would be useful to solve! Thanks a ton, Ill wait about a comment, so dont hesitate to offer an entrance!
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Re:Ok guys well thanks for everyhing but still no luck. I think I am gonna scrap vista and wait on my xp home cd which arrives wednesday.
Ive tried every combination of having components disabled, silicon image controller, marvel lan, usb controller etc. The only thing i havent done is swtiched my hd to the red nvdraid sata ports, but oh well.
Anyways, the reason that I had to keep nuking my harddrive was because after a botched install I could not even get the dvd to load, though that seems fixed now, though still after a restart nothing happens. Worse yet i have developed a post error, one long beep and three short ones, which points to a video card error, though this does not happen on a cold boot, just a restart.
So maybe despite all the sata/harddrive/ntfs etc error messages I recieved earlier were a fluke and something is wrong with my video card, a 6600gt that has been going strong for a while. While in vista I usually got driver failures, but I attributed that to crappy new vista drivers from nvidia.
I dont know really where to go from here, I am tired of spending time on the problem, and I will just go back to xp untill i get a new mobo and videocard sometime in the next year hopefully.
Though if anyone else owns this mobo, I would love to hear your experiences. I know this one in particular has been having problems with vista, but some peopel ahve been getting around it. Lemme know, thanks!
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Re:Yeah. A clean Vista install only takes about 20 minutes. Just pop in the DVD and, when asked, tell it to delete the Vista partition and start over.
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Re:You don't have to wipe the drive if you've done a complete wipe already. Just delete the partition and install again. All you're doing is wasting your time.
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Re:Ok so yeah now I am stuck again. Evidently all the drivers are loaded but the installation did not continue and I cannot boot from cd or hard drive, so essentially I am guessing I am stuck. Safe mode sorta works but it says installation needs to continue as noted. I guess I have to wipe the drive again? That would suck, having to take a few hours between tries is what is getting me right now.
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Re:Full Vista Business, I assume that is the same as release to manufacture?
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Re:So, are using RC2 or RTM? With the new Activation-timer-reset-switch, RTM can be used until July without Activation, while RC2 likely expires in May.
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Re:Yeah I used those sillicon drivers, the IDE and the raid ones. I am in the middle of an attempt to install Vista having the Silicon Sata Controller and NVraid all turned off however and I got to completing installation and the computer rebooted as normal, but now I cannot boot to either the hard drive or the dvd.
I had it set to hard drive and it gives me options to boot vista normally or safe mode, yet the installation wasnt really completed. It restarted and I tried the dvd but it restarts at the end of the "green bar" initialization screen.
Worst part is, now that it did not install correctly, I think I have to wipe my disk again since I cannot get anything else to work.
Lemme go into the Bios to check for Ide emulation, I might have seen something like it. Thanks for your help anyways!
*Though currently I am receiving no error messages…shrug
** oooh new update, all the drivers loaded and I can get into safe mode, but it says it cannot complete the installation there. Lets see what happens
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Re:There appear to be Vista (RTM) drivers for the Silicon Image 3114 in non-RAID mode here. (http://www.siliconimage.com/support/downloadresults.aspx?pid=28&bios=0&drivers=1&sataraid=0) Are these what you are using?
I know zillch about NForce-chipset motherboards. Do they have an IDE emulation mode that doesn't require SATA drivers for non-RAID drives? Many motherboards do.
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