exact same MB I am currently driving, have never had a problem with it but I always shy away from ATI video. do not like, have always had problems with them. When installing on the sata drive did you hit f6 and use the sata drivers ? I have seen clones of w2k do this, no idea why, even on intel mb's. w2k was very fussy. any error message on Blue screen ? seems to me these are generally software or device driver problem related, but has been awhile since I seen one. my system is 2 wd 500gb sata drives and two pata dvd's ( rom and burner) video is 7600gs, 2 gb of corsair xms If it were me, and the bug started with the sata drive I might be tempted to go back to pata boot, if not for no other reason then to test it. Also, I hope you did not update the sata drivers from ms update. very bad.
good luck fp At 07:54 PM 9/29/2007, Winterlight Poked the stick with: >I have a Asus K8N-E Deluxe with a Semperon 3400 and 1.5GB of Kingstone Value >RAM. >Antec true power 550watt >Onboard NIC, and audio >AGP Video = ATI AIW 9600 PRO >One PCI = Promise ATA 133 controller with two WD 60 GB drives running software >RAID 0. >One PCI = OrangeMicro USB2 ... this is just for extra USB2 ports >LiteON DVD 4 speed burner... very reliable installed on primary master PATA > >Most recent BIOS flash. Everything is running at defaults... no overclocking.. >no tweaking ...nothing. > >This is a third computer that I use when I need a another video recording >device, and for storage. I don't turn it on very often >For the last four years I have stayed with Intel boards, chipsets and CPUs and >I never see a blue screen... until I ventured into AMD with this setup. > >At first I was using a WD 200 GB PATA drive as the boot drive with Windows >2000 on C and XP PRO on D ... no SATA... but I was having trouble with a 8 >speed Lite ON I had installed. It was difficult to get a good burn. So I >pulled it out and put in my always reliable 4 speed Lite on. And I swapped out >the WD 200 GB PATA for a Maxtor Enterprise 300GB SATA that was running in >another PC. > >I just cloned the drive from one to another. As soon as I did that I could no >longer get into Win 2000. I could not even re-install 2k clean as it would >fail, and crash. I eventually gave up and concentrated on the XP PRO install. >It is a clean install. No anti virus, no firewall, no security stuff. I have >fully patched XP and installed IE7. I have the ATI All in wonder software >installed and it works fine.I have Nero 6 installed, but that is about it. It >is a clean and lean occasional use video recording machine. > >Unfortunately, every time I try to burn something I blue screen and crash. I >have tried updating everything that can be updated including Nvida nForce3 >Chipset driver but it hasn't helped. I can't figure out why I couldn't >install 2K, and now I can't use my burner in XP PRO...... just because I >installed a SATA drive? There are six SATA ports on this board so I can't >believe the SATA drive has something to do with it so it must have something >to do with switching from PATA boot to a PATA. > >Can this be fixed or should I try a new install to sort it out? > >My first experience with the NVIDIA chipset is reminiscent VIA... and it is >my last AMD / Nvidia setup! > >thanks -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- For something you really want, the price is always high.
