VISTA is ****

JDMurray

What does your motherboard's manual say about mixing EIDE and SATA and booting from the SATA or PATA (EIDE) drive?

Lee H

I dont have the book anymore but its a decent one

Asus P5NE - SLI

I have had it booting fine to my SATA when I have an IDE connected with XP installed so I dont think this issue is my mobo

JDMurray

All Asus mobo manuals are available online. Here's the page for the P5N-E SLI.

You need to check if the motherboard's drivers--including the disk controller drivers--are different for Vista and XP. While you are downloading the manuals, also download and install the latest mobo drivers for Vista. I see a JMicron JMB36X SATA/PATA Controller Driver V1.17.3.2 for Windows 32bit/64bit Vista listed.

dynamik

If you think it's just a Vista boot problem, try booting off the CD and running the repair diagnostic.

RussS

Don't stress - Windows 7 is almost here

dynamik

RussS wrote:

Don't stress - Windows 7 is almost here

And it's not looking that bad: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/10/28/windows-7-the-user-interface/

JDMurray

dynamik wrote:

RussS wrote:

Don't stress - Windows 7 is almost here

And it's not looking that bad: http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/10/28/windows-7-the-user-interface/

Yet another few steps closer to the Mac OS X interface for MS.

dynamik

For sure. It doesn't look like they're going to get all the way there though: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/08/apple_patents_osx_dock/

Lee H

the issue i had were i was pressing F8 to boot my SATA is now resolved

i assumed that if you dont press any key to boot from CD it would then go to your hard drive of choice in the hard drive list as SATA was at the top

changed it to Hard Drive and now it works

odd one that

Thanks for your help JD i tried what you said which then led me to try changing boot sequence

Lee H