Abit Av8 Boot Usb Drive
Shawn mcdonald gravity chords. To a floppy and when the first blue screen in the Windows installer appears press the F6 key to allow the Windows installer to add the SATA Drivers. On some ABIT M'Boards these are called RAID Drivers which are still the same thing and do not establish a RAID ARRAY unless you chose to configure one.
Dec 22, 2009 I have a homebuilt Abit AV8 mobo system which. On AV8 Boot Problem, Help Needed. All goes well add the boot drive and see if you can boot. Sep 26, 2009 I'm not sure about that.at least it's not universal. I have SATA hard drives, an external USB hard drive (PATA inside. ABIT AV8 SATA issues. I previously had an ABIT KV7 with a AMD Athlon XP 3200+ with one Hitachi 250GB SATA drive as my boot drive.
Rapidshare download. When asked insert the Floppy with The SATA Drivers copied to the Root of the floppy and allow the SATA Drivers to be installed. Once this is finished you will be asked which HDD you want to install Windows to. I was able to reinstall the SATA drivers. But the system still won't boot from my SATA drives.
I have Windows XP installed on them (it's been installed for the past 2 years), so I know it's there. I also plugged in an ATA drive, installed Windows on that, and was able to access the SATA drives as secondary drives through 'my computer'. Still, it's not what I want. The mobo refuses to boot from the SATA drives.