files i was talking about was listed by mark simpson...and the 1.0040 drivers are out now for anyone that's interested.

Bad floppy drive?? CRAP! I just bought this thing. I'm hoping it's something else... These are the files I copied from the CD to the floppy:

Si3112r.inf
Si3112r.mpd
Si3112r.sys
SIISUPP.VXD
TxtSetup.oem

Then I get that same error message Matt described concerning "Si3112r.sys". GRRRR!!!!

Wow, just realized how freakin' old this thread is... I'm using the 1007 bios, by the way.

It's a long thread cuz so many people have the mobo and the SATA support is basically just like having a SATA adapter PCI card.

if it's at numbers that are 2^Nth, i.e. 512, 1024, 4096, I'd seriously consider just hijacking a floppy drive from another computer and check to see if it works because I know those files work. If the drive's the problem, you can exchange it for a working one if you just bought the drive or you can get a new one at newegg.com for $7.00 or less.

My comp is this :

a7n8x Deluxe w/ 1.007 bios
Athlon XP 2200+
Samsung S1614C 160g SATA drive

I had an IDE drive in my comp at the time I installed Windows XP - that is the only cause of my problem that I see. It wont boot at all, even with all the advice I see here. MB is set to SATA enable, latest bios, boot sequence to SCSI...all it does is...looks like its trying to boot via network. I remove the IDE drive and nothing happens, when its in I can boot from the SATA drive without trouble.

When I installed windows first time around I did the trick with drivers on a disk and it worked, but now it wont. Any suggestions?

Hey Guys My Name Is Tom

I have a very similar problem except I am using the Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe and a Seagate 80Gb Barracuda Serial ATA I tried to went to the Asus website loaded the correct files and put them on a floppy. During setup pressed F6 and put on the drivers correctly they installed no problems. Then went to Format using NTFS and still in Text Mode Setup during the copying of files it freezes around 70% of the way. And gives me a blue Technical Error Screen Drive_Lesser_Or_Equal and I have no clue of what to do could someone plz help me.

Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe
Seagate 80Gb Barracuda Serial ATA
Windows XP Home Edition
Athlon XP 2500+
Thermalright SLK 900U
Antec Sonata

try searching the asus forums for information on the A7N8X deluxe at http://www.nforcershq.com. I have a post there, thatdetails the installation of windows on a SATA drive. Look it up.

Chris
I had the same problem. Bought asus a8n-sli premium mb and wd sata hard drive and installed win xp 64 on the new drive. It would not boot without a bootable cd inserted. I had three ide drives in the puter and finally after much frustration I did this.
Turned off the computer and disconected the power cord to all ide drives leaving only the sata with power.
Did a clean install of windows xp 64 bit and when finished rebooted ... worked fine!
Shut down the computer and re-connected all three ide drives. Rebooted and everything is ok. All drives were re-assinged (sata is now c Did ms updates and installed my programs including shrink and dvd decrypter, power dvd etc.
Now I'm happy!

hope this helps someone.

I've read through the entire thread and I think I know the exact resolution.

Go into the bios (F8 I believe) and tell the motherboard to boot from SCSI. For some reason on A7N8X motherboards, there's no boot from serial ATA option and this is instead done via scsi. Try it and let me know if it works.