ABIT NF7-S Ver 2 Serial ATA Problem

[Sandbaggermb]

I bought a Serial ATA Drive (maxtor), got it connected to the motherboard (NF7-S Ver 2) and the computer sees the drive, but when I go to install Windows 2000 professional, I get to the part where I hit F6 to install the drivers off the floppy and that goes fine. It installs and copies files then comes to a part where it says your computer will reboot in 15 seconds if you have a floppy in please remove it and when it reboots it goes into the process of reinstalling windows all over again. I have basically unplugged everything in my computer except the bare essencials to run. What I have running is the following.

Motherboard-ABIT NF7-S Ver 2
CPU-AMD XP 3200+ 400 bus
Memory-Geil Golden Dragon Series PC 3200 1G
Hard Drives-Maxtor 160G SATA, Seagate Barracuda IDE 60G and Maxtor IDE 250G (All 7200 RPM have the 60G and 250G unplugged right now for the purpose of trying to install windows)
Video Card-Powercolor ATI 9800 Pro 128mb
DVD Burner-Plextor 8X
CD Burner-Lite-on 52x24x52
Power Supply-600watt
CPU Cooler-Thermaltake Silent Boost

[bumpeez]

When it gets to the part that says it is going to reboot take out the cd , it will ask you for it when it starts. Worked for me, good luck...

[Sandbaggermb]

I will try that, I am at work right now so it will have to wait until i get home.

Any other suggestion would be helpful just incase this does not work.

[Starfury_2260]

yes that is the problem. if you leave the win2k cd in it will always go to it's installation thing. just take that out and you'll be set.

nice system ya got there!

[Shawn711]

Ya could also go into the bios and change the first drive in the boot up order to the hard drive as well...........speeds up boot time slightly that way. I run mine that way all the time except when problems arise, otherwise the first boot drive is the hard drive.

Shawn

[watchtower7]

I had an abit it7 and it was pretty freaky about the sata issue...seems the sata was running under the highpoint raid controller-I never could get it to boot from there so I gave up.
I had xp pro, not 2000, but I remember you must load the raid drivers very early (on cue) during the install process.