Thank for your info.

I got W2k installed finally using this:
- I installed W2k from emergency diskettes
- after boot when setup want fils from CD (which is not enabled due to fact that
setup has not loaded IDE JMicron drivers) I just press cancel for each file.
Luckily Windows still fuctions somewhat - lot of features are missing such as
network etc.
- At last hd and CDrom see each other. I copy the W2k cd to a temporary directory

Then I do the whole setup again. But now I can give setup the directory where
missing files are and windows can load the missing files from my temp hd
directory.

Thinking back this is perhaps more of a w2k setup problem of not loading critical
drivers before continuing.


kony <spam@spam.com> wrote:

>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.