WinXP shows a blue screen when installing on SATA HD. The setup says "Starting Windows..." and the goes blue bu says nothing about drivers. The system is this: Semp2600, MOBO Asus NF4 socket 754, HDDD SATA Maxtor 80GB CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1466MHz; RAM: 768MB DDR 400Mhz PC3200; MB: ASRock K7VT2 KT266A; VGA: GeForce2 MX400 64MB SDRAM 128bit AGP4x; HDD: 40GB WD + 40GB ST; OPT: Asus CRW5224A + LG GSA-4163B

for the SATA drive you will need the drivers for the SATA controller on your board if your mother board did not come with any.at the startup of the blue screen press F6 to allow the system to load these drivers from a Floppy which you should have. or go to the ASUS website to find the SATA drivers for your board. also make sure the SATA is enable in your BIOs setup. i too had lots of problems with my SATA drive personaly i dont like them and given a other chance would buy the IDE one all good things come to those who look for them

Bajanboy, That's correct - however you also need to check that you have the correct regional SATA controller/driver. I have a grey-import product which I bought from dabs.com and I wasn't aware of it. The headache it has caused in trying to locate which area the SATA drive comes from. Even at the F6 stage, the driver may need to be loaded via a 3.5" floppy - some machines don't even have this, and the variable can not be changed via the computer BIOS which is really bizarre. Windows XP is so backward which is why SATA drives seem so difficult to get installed. I still haven't succeeded yet and am really tempted to go off back to Linux with mine.

im having this same problem with sata, although the MB (asus pw5d2-premium) has the sata drivers supposedly on it so shouldnt mine work? Itis also enabled in bios. It is 2nd on my boot order (first is cd rom where the windows installer is.

it was the ram CPU: AMD Athlon XP 1700+ @ 1466MHz; RAM: 768MB DDR 400Mhz PC3200; MB: ASRock K7VT2 KT266A; VGA: GeForce2 MX400 64MB SDRAM 128bit AGP4x; HDD: 40GB WD + 40GB ST; OPT: Asus CRW5224A + LG GSA-4163B