Can't insatll XP pro on a new MSI board.

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ultracontrast

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:mad:I just bought the MIS G31TM-P21 and I want to run XP pro , the CMOS recognized the Hard drive but XP does not, I am installing XP with the external CD/DVD-ROM and connected to USB on the board. I have also tried to use the CD-ROM internal player to install XP and it does the same. It installs Windows Setup but that is as far as it gets. It also says that I am missing NTLDR, what ever that is?
Could anyone direct me to a file that I need to install on a floppy so the XP can recognzie the drive, any advise is appreciated.
 
You need to install XP compatible SATA driver because XP doesn't have support for SATA. When the install prompts you to press F6 you can load driver from a floppy. If your system doesn't have a floppy drive then you will need to look into slipstreaming the driver into the install disk.
 
Are the hard drives new? I have read online that people have this problem with used hard drives and needed to do a reformat of the hard drives and restore the bios and the problem goes away.
 
Like these guys said, you'll need to install the SATA driver during Windows setup. If you don't have a floppy drive, you'll need to get a copy of nLite and slipstream the driver into the XP installation.
 
Guys, this isn't a sata driver issue. He wouldn't be getting the ntldr error if this was a sata driver issue.

ultracontrast,

what service pack of windows is on the install cd? Is the cd scratched up? Go into the bios and check the sata controller setting and make sure its set to IDE mode and not AHCI/raid.
 
johnb35 said:
Guys, this isn't a sata driver issue. He wouldn't be getting the ntldr error if this was a sata driver issue.

ultracontrast,

what service pack of windows is on the install cd? Is the cd scratched up? Go into the bios and check the sata controller setting and make sure its set to IDE mode and not AHCI/raid.
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IDE mode is enabled and the SATA controller is disabled. This is a early version of XP-Pro that does not need to be activated.
I am loading via USB, since I did not want to chain the CD-ROM and the Hard drive to one IDE cable, as that did not work. Even when I had the Hard drive on master and the CD-ROM on slave.
Just keeping the hard drive on master to the IDE port and running a external CD/DVD-ROM conected to the USB, I figure would do the trick, but it was not any different the the former.
The NTLDR showes that something was already loaded on the drive, I think that staying internal with my HD and CD-ROM conections could do the trick, but I'll need to order a SATA drive, before I can continue.
 
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So you are using an IDE hard drive and not SATA? I would get rid of the IDE hard drive and get a sata hdd and put the internal cdrom on the IDE cable by itself. You may also have issues trying to load xp from the usb device.
 
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johnb35 said:
So you are using an IDE hard drive and not SATA? I would get rid of the IDE hard drive and get a sata hdd and put the internal cdrom on the IDE cable by itself. You may also have issues trying to load xp from the usb device.
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Yes, I am going to order a SATA drive this week, and try again.
 
I went back to the IDE harddrive [master] and chained the CD-ROM [slave], disabled almost everything on the motherboards software that I could. XP finally installed, then I enabled some of the software slowly, until I could load the motherboard drivers.
Finally worked.
 
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