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Okay,
I think its considered "solved" for now
I installed Windows 7 RC. It works like a breeze. No errors whatsoever. Is there some compatibility issues with XP or something? Ill bump up this thread if anything arises once again.
Again, Thanks alot. Especially you ScottW. You are an asset to this website and I thank you for your guidance. I have now succeeded in building my first computer =)
Cheers! and thanks again!
ptseet, congratulations, you built a computer! Thank you for the kind words and you are welcome for the help.
I just went to the Asus website to look for the manual. When I select "Downloads" for the P5Q SE2, it asks which operating system, and XP is on the list along with many others. I can't think of any reason for compatibility issues with XP. Say, did you have an F6 disk with AHCI drivers on it?
An F6 disk refers to a diskette containing device drivers that are required to install XP, but are not included on the XP install CD. During install there is a message at the bottom of the screen to "Press F6 to install drivers" or some such. This is when you would put in the diskette to load your SATA drivers because the XP install CD does not contain SATA drivers. I guess I just assumed that you had done this or your hard drive should not have shown up at all. My bad for assuming.
You know, this might be key to the whole LBA business. By disabling LBA mode in the BIOS, that allowed XP to see the drive but it still wouldn't know that it is SATA and couldn't communicate with it properly. Hence the "disk read" error.
The Windows 7 installer does have SATA drivers, so there are no problems with it. AHCI is Advanced Host Controller Interface which is part of the SATA spec and the type usually assigned to SATA device drivers.
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