Kaega2
New Member
Hello everyone,
I've trying to get a friends computer up and running after he ran into some problems. In troubleshooting these problems, he ended up formatting his HD.
He was has provided me very little details on what troubleshooting he's done, so I'm kind of starting from scratch. To give you an idea of some of the things he may have fiddled with, I had to change the jumper on one of his HDs because it was set to an invalid entry, and didn't even show up in bios until I changed it.
But now to the problem where I'm stuck. It seems this computer requires a SATA driver or RAID driver for the HD to show up in the Windows installer. The owner of the computer has provided me with a floppy disk with the driver on it.
When I run the installer, and press F6, nothing appears to happen. I thought maybe the driver on the disc wasn't the right one, but then I read something which makes me believe that may not be the case. From what I've read if you have no disk in the floppy drive, I should get a message to insert a disk. That does not happen, which makes me think it's not recognizing that I'm pressing the F6 key.
The keyboard I'm using is my own USB keyboard (the owner did not provide me one). I don't have a PS2 keyboard to test, but I'm thinking that may be the problem. I figured before going looking for one, I would ask on here and see what you think.
There doesn't seem to be a model number for the computer overall (I think it's custom built) but the model of the motherboard is VT8237.
Any suggestions?
I've trying to get a friends computer up and running after he ran into some problems. In troubleshooting these problems, he ended up formatting his HD.
He was has provided me very little details on what troubleshooting he's done, so I'm kind of starting from scratch. To give you an idea of some of the things he may have fiddled with, I had to change the jumper on one of his HDs because it was set to an invalid entry, and didn't even show up in bios until I changed it.
But now to the problem where I'm stuck. It seems this computer requires a SATA driver or RAID driver for the HD to show up in the Windows installer. The owner of the computer has provided me with a floppy disk with the driver on it.
When I run the installer, and press F6, nothing appears to happen. I thought maybe the driver on the disc wasn't the right one, but then I read something which makes me believe that may not be the case. From what I've read if you have no disk in the floppy drive, I should get a message to insert a disk. That does not happen, which makes me think it's not recognizing that I'm pressing the F6 key.
The keyboard I'm using is my own USB keyboard (the owner did not provide me one). I don't have a PS2 keyboard to test, but I'm thinking that may be the problem. I figured before going looking for one, I would ask on here and see what you think.
There doesn't seem to be a model number for the computer overall (I think it's custom built) but the model of the motherboard is VT8237.
Any suggestions?
