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New System, HD problem or cd?

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WGSquallx2002

Limp Gawd
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The specs in my sign. are specs of my newly built system. I've been quite fustrated these past few hours trying to figure out how to get the darn thing to run. At first I was having problems with the SATA drivers because my floppy jacked up and after much hassle work recopying floppies, rebooting and messing with SATA settings and jumpers, the harddrive finally picked up on the bios screen. I then began to load the the XP cd, not an original disc, so it was doing fine. I did a quick format NTFS for the first time on a brand new OEM harddrive. I don't know if that affected the result...but what happened was, Windows was in the process of installing. Before any files started installing, a sign poped up saying it could not find the "asms" file in the XP cd. I checked the cd from the current system I'm using right now which isn't listed, but the folder ASMS is under I386. Everything should be working fine but it's not. I've read many articles about the asms problem and I've tried most of it. People changed optical drives and it worked for them, some tried original xp prof discs and it worked for them, others took other copies of xp prof and it worked. I've tried most of these but had no luck. I was wondering if it has anything to do with my hardware configuration. The SB75S is one of the newest shuttle cases. It sports a 875 chipset. It has built in SATA controllers but obviously it doesn't support the 48 bit thing which allows 137+ Hd's to be recognized off the bat. I was wondering if because I added drivers through floppy, that XP wants something on the xp cd that isn't really there? I'm not sure anymore. Hope someone could gimme some ideas of what to do or even better, solutions? Thanks.
 
Alright everyone I think I've found a solution!!! Yes all by myself 1:57 in the morning. Now many of you have the same or very similar problems. I think its the conflicts between the new SATA chipsets (integrated or built in) vs XP Prof. The jumpers for the SATA have to be set at master in my situation. The bios has to have auto for the SATA and nothing else such as enhanced or SATA only. I configured with a 52x cd-rom set as slave (lazy to move jumper), and just tweaked a setting in the bios. Set auto in bios only after you have installed or added the SATA drivers for your specific chipset through the use of a floppy. Windows installed smoothly without asking for the missing ASMS files etc. For those of you who solved the problem with diff cds or diff cd drives, probably it was because of another cause. But the way I fixed this problem I think should help or work for others who have similar problems. Good day. I can finally sleep.
 
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