Hi, I just switched to an ASUS A8V Mobo after my MSI K8N Neo2 bit the dust. after switching the mother board, i am unable to get into windows, or suse linux. grub comes up and askes me to select the operating system i want, but when i pick, it goes no where, suse tells em i have a kernel panic, and windows just restarts the system. any way, i want to format and just start fresh. my problem is this: when i put int he windows XP instal CD, it tells me that it cant detect any drives, adn that i shoudl make sure that they are powered on/ connected. i tried to used the SATA drivers on the CD that came with the mobo durrign the windows install, and it was still unable to see anything. now, had i not been able to load grub, i would think that my HD was just fried, but it is obviously getting accessed. also, i formated my drive before using the windows CD when i was set up to Dual boot between Win XP/Gentoo Linux. any ideas on what i can try? SPEC: ASUS A8V MOBO AMD 64 4000+ CLAWHAMMER CORSAIR 1GIG MEMORY CHAINTECH GEFORCE 5500FX HD1 - 120G HD2 - 320G CD-RW/DVD DVD-R

Try putting the drivers onto a floppy disk and installing windows again. Or, if you havent already formatted try running a repair installation on XP. Matt matt@bbcomputing.co.uk www.bbcomputing.co.uk