[[Help] - Windows XP Home wont install]

Hi all,

I bought a new comuter last week and had the same problems.

(winxp installation hangs up / reboots at random places)

My HW is:

gigabyte ultra-sli

WD 200GB SATA

1GB kingston

gigabyte 6600GT

After a lot of frustration I found the problem (at least in my case)

There are 2 SATA controllers on the board: one belongs to nvidia and the other belongs to sillicon image.

The sillicon image controller does not work! (or the driver supplied is corrupted)

Once I connected to nvidia controller everything worked fine - I even didn't need any boot disk with sata driver - just define the HD at the nvidia raid bios (F10)

BTW: my board SATA 1 controller is sillicon image and the SATA 2 controller is nvidia - you can connect SATA 1 disk to SATA 2 controller, it works great.

p.s. if you have only SATA1 or SATA2 probably 2 SATA slots are connected to sillicon image controller and 2 slots connected to nvidia controller so check your motherboard documentation and connect your disk to nvidia controller.

That's it, I hope it will help..