Advent 7208

[Spiderbait]

Hi

a freind of mine recently bought an advent laptop when trying to install xp its giving the below error

When i try to install Xp i get the "no disk found" error message.

im unsure as to which drivers he should get to allow him to F6 and install the sata drivers ?

Can anyone assist as the advent site as usueal seems to be broken.

Kind regards

[Legolash2o]

On the unatteneded page, make sure OEM preinstalled is enabled.

I think it would be best to integrate all the drivers including hard drives (if you get a message during driver integration for pnp or textmode then select textmode) but we do not know what drivers are available for us to say which one it it. if you would tell me the manufacturers website then ill have alook on their

Edited August 7, 2007 by legolash2o

[Spiderbait]

woo finally found a post

This notebook uses the Intel 943GML chipset.

The drivers you need are Intel ICH7M SATA drivers and are usually run from floppy, although, I understand, they are included on the latest versions of the XP Installation CD.

They are quite difficult to find but HP have them.

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwar...4055&os=228

You may need a USB floppy drive to install them.

hopefully this may help others many thanks too Ranibeke and legolash2o for the help

Edited August 7, 2007 by Spiderbait

[Legolash2o]

so you are using a disk which came with the computer? install the RAID drivers if you can find them

[extrabigmehdi]

When i try to install Xp i get the "no disk found" error message.

I already got once the problem.

The error appeared just after formatting the partition ... (during XP install, off course).

Perhaps the error come from my DVD drive that have difficulties to read some DVD (although I used it to burn that DVD).

What I've done, is booting drom an other DVD drive, and then it seemed to work (but I'm not sure if it's not just luck).

[Legolash2o]

make sure the DVD and DVD-Drive is clean lol, this isn't an nLite problem, also try burning it onto another disk at a slower speed and use verify too

Liam

[extrabigmehdi]

hi

make sure the DVD and DVD-Drive is clean lol,

And how do I ensure that the DVD drive is clean ?

Using a "DVD lens cleaner" is from what I heard the best way to mess up your DVD drive.

While using a sprey with compressed air (best solution), looks too complicated for me (you have to disassemble the DVD drive,

in order to clean the lens).

So I just have to accept my DVD drive "as it is", unless I buy an other.

[Legolash2o]

ok lol, just try the other methods