You have to install the SATA driver during the OS install. See Chapter 5
of the manual at:
http://dlsvr03.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/sock478/P4S800D-E%20Deluxe/e1381_p4s800d-e_deluxe.pdf



Antonio wrote:
> Hi everybody:
>
> I have an Asus P4S800D-E deluxe motherboard. I try installing window
> Xp media center 2005 on it but it told it could not find a hard
> drive; I have a SATA 74 GB Western digital HD, I check the cables but
> they seem fine. When the system boots it could see the HD but doesn't
> detect the serial devices, it says PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SERIALS
> DEVICES NOT FOUND, BUT ON THE BOOT SETUP IT SEES THE HD, I went to
> ASUS found a patch for the BIOS to fix the SATA HD problem, the
> manual tell me to download to a floppy and change the file name to
> P4S800DE.ROM  to update the bios using the Asus EZ flash update, so I
> boot the pc press the keys the manual say Alt + f2, I insert the
> floppy in it; it find the floppy drive but it don't find the file, I
> try do it again, I reset the system, but I get the same thing, so I
> erase the file fro m the floppy and download it again, and make sure
> the file it has the correct name before I saved it,but I still get
> the same problem, there other two ways to flash the bios but, one of
> them requires to be in windows and the other require a floppy; (thank
> if your'll still reading this, hope you get it),so I don't know what
> else to try, I don't want to use an IDE hard Drive, because I will
> have to buy it, and the serial drive the I bought is expensive,and
> don't have the money for a new board, so my only option is to flash
> the bios, the pc sees the floppy drive so I don't think that the
> problem; any suggestions? anything I haven't think about, please help
> me. Sincerely Thank you Antonio Figueroa
>
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