First night with P4P800-DLX

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Claude Leclerc

I would like to have a feel from people having this board if the symptoms I
have seems normal or if the probability of a bad board is high.

- Moved from KT7A-R to P4P800-DLX.

- I tried to do a simple move from one to the other to make sure everthing
was working before reformating et reinstalling my OSs.

- I have a dual-boot XP Pro, Win98.

- My drive are JBOD ATA133 on the Raid Controller. (And 4
CD/DVD/DVD-Writer/CD-Writer on the standard IDE)

- It boots correctly in Win98 but USB doesn't work, PCI cards are not
recognize and AGP car is only recognize as VGA card.
- There is no errors in the list of hardware but there's probably missing
things. I tried the INF install and it doesn't fix a thing.

- For XP, it doesn't see the HDs, I tried a re-installed but it requires a
floppy with Raid drivers to see the disks and my floppy is dead.

- Other then moving my drive to the main controller, anyone know of a way to
have the RAID drive working on an old XP Pro install.

Thanks.
 
Claude Leclerc said:
I would like to have a feel from people having this board if the symptoms I
have seems normal or if the probability of a bad board is high.

- Moved from KT7A-R to P4P800-DLX.

- I tried to do a simple move from one to the other to make sure everthing
was working before reformating et reinstalling my OSs.

- I have a dual-boot XP Pro, Win98.

- My drive are JBOD ATA133 on the Raid Controller. (And 4
CD/DVD/DVD-Writer/CD-Writer on the standard IDE)

- It boots correctly in Win98 but USB doesn't work, PCI cards are not
recognize and AGP car is only recognize as VGA card.
- There is no errors in the list of hardware but there's probably missing
things. I tried the INF install and it doesn't fix a thing.

- For XP, it doesn't see the HDs, I tried a re-installed but it requires a
floppy with Raid drivers to see the disks and my floppy is dead.

- Other then moving my drive to the main controller, anyone know of a way to
have the RAID drive working on an old XP Pro install.

Thanks.
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I don't know XP, but I do know W2K. Although some people have on occasion
had luck at using a HD from an old mobo on a new one, the general consensus
is that you need a fresh install of your OS. I don't know if a repair
install will do the trick. My suspicion is that you are likely to end up
with obscure errors and problems in the future even if you solve the
immediate problems and get the setup to work.

As for the issue of the raid drive, I think that is solveable through the
bios boot settings, however you will still have problems related to all the
circuits on your new mobo such as the chipset used.

It would be best to do a fresh install. Sorry!

ken
 
Agreed. I bought a new drive for my p4p800 deluxe and installed my old IDE
as a slave. So I still have all the data available from my old drive -- but
reinstalled the OS (win xp) and my programs on the new IDE drive.

It made it easy to just copy things like favorites, email files, etc. from
the D drive to the proper place on the C drive where the boot OS resides
now. Didn't even back up anything prior. Just changed jumper on old drive
to slave, hooked up new drive as master -- hooked both up to the new
moboard.

Installed OS -- and all my goodies are available on D, but speedy new clean
OS on C.
 
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