SATA Drive Nightmare
On a recent trip to the US, I bought my son a new Maxtor SATA drive for his pooter. (It was cheap and a flurry of text messages assured me that his mother board could handle it).
On installing the new drive, his pooter now just gives a good old blue screen of death.
We've tried all sorts of things to ressurect it and the following points may (or may not) be of interest.
a. If we don't install Sata drivers at the outset of Win XP setup, XP won't recognise the drive.
b. If we do install Sata drivers (and we've tried lots of different ones) XP Setup recognises the drive and starts to install Windows then falls over completely.
c. We can install Win 98 without problems and it runs well. (Why go to XP you ask? Because he only has a copy of Office XP and that won't run under Win 98).
Half term is nearly over and having spent almost all of the holiday installing and uninstalling Windows, number one son is about to go mad. Does anyone have any bright ideas?
Oh, it's an MSI motherboard with on board Sata control using the VIA chipset.