On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:55:38 +0300, Jimmy Neutron
<fake@email.invalid.com> wrote:

>kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 09:04:24 +0300, Jimmy Neutron
>><fake@email.invalid.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Andy <1@2.3> wrote:
>>>
>>>>You have to load the JMicron SATA Raid driver during setup. Otherwise,
>>>>once Windows is started, setup loses its ability to access the CD
>>>>drive because it no longer uses the BIOS. See section 4.11 in the
>>>>manual.
>>>
>>>But I DO load the Sata driver as advised, F6 & diskette on 4.11. It appears to go
>>>ok. Could it be that JMicron SATA driver is not compatible with Windows 2000
>>>setup diskette with SP2? But why don't I get an error message upon loading the
>>>driver from diskette.
>>
>>It should work fine with Win2k. Are you using the latest
>>motherboard bios and latest driver from Abit? If not, get
>>at least the driver instead of the one on the CD. After
>>trying that, if it doesn't work, note what driver files are
>>on the CD.
>>
>>Also check the jmicron setup menu to see if there is a
>>configuration for operating mode.
>>
>
>No that is not the case. Windows 2000 install goes like this:
>- (1) boot from CD or diskette, start the install and load what ever extra
>drivers are need such as Jmicron driver.

Right, but depending on what mode the jmicron controller is
running in (if you can change it), it might not even need a
driver- I don't have that controller so I can't be sure, but
it is supported on Win2k with the driver IF the driver is
needed.


>- (2) in the middle of setup a reboot is done and W2K setup continues from hd. At
>this point Jmicron drivers are not present anymore.

Which is why I suggested to note what drivers it was using
and try different ones. I suggested what i did for a
reason, and you are essentially doing something else and
obviously need to try a few things as what was done didn't
work.


>Unfortunately Windows setup
>won't load the extra drivers until very late in the setup. And before that it
>needs to access IDE device which unfortunately are not available.

Your controller and windows loading the driver is not so
different from any other non-chipset-integrated drive
controller, thus you need to consider that process and why
it isn't working- but instead you are drawing conclusions
without actually isolating where the process failed.

>
>All I get in (2) is a message "Windows can't find a CD rom drive press F3 to
>exit". It would be great if it had an F6 before that!

Where is the CDROM hooked up? You should not connect it to
a controller running RAID (driver). Why are you using the
jmicron controller anyway?


>
>I tried an USB cd rom but again Windows won't load USB drivers before above
>message. I copied the entire CD to HD but there is no "Do you have an alternate
>address for install files"

You are drifting into other topics instead of focusing on
the issues I'd mentioned. Controller mode, including it's
menu settings, the general bios setting for legacy modes of
these controllers (if applicable), the specific driver
version you had supplied previously from floppy, the
possibility of a motherboard bios update to resolve
controller issues, or that the CD might have been on a RAID
controller.