select a propper boot device-error

[Atomic Rooster]

Have a read through this: Windows XP logon screen does not appear and the computer continuously restarts

[SiliconJon]

Originally Posted by nrok

on my computer i have a sata hard drive and i didn't install drivers from a floppy
cause i set the driver to work at ide mode in bios
but in this computer's bios, i dont have that option
just sata-raid-disable.
how do i create a floppy with the scsi drivers if i don't have the mother board cd?

What is the motherboard model? You'll need the SATA drivers for the motherboard from the manufacturers website, then read this :
Install Windows XP on SATA without a Floppy (F6) - No Floppy...no Windows on SATA? Wrong! - Softpedia

More on slipsteaming:
How To: Slipstream your XP installation | Maximum PC

[SiliconJon]

The last time I used a floppy for the SATA drivers during XP install the manufacturer had specific instructions on how the directory structure for the floppy needed to be - I believe there was a file on the root directory that the XP install read in order to navigate the disk and offer you the available driver(s), as for some insane reason XP install doesn't let you point to a specific driver file which would have been optimal since one could then insert the driver CD and point to the SATA drivers that way...

[nrok]

hi everyone! nrok here with another problem.
i created the floppy with the sata drivers and i also made
a cd with nlite like i learned from siliconjon and i tried to install
once with the floppy and once with the nlite cd
in both, i get the following error message:
the file "viamrx64.sys" is corrupt. so how do i bypass this problem???

[SiliconJon]

It sounds like the driver file did not download completely or downloaded with bad data. It is also possible the sata driver pack is no good. What's the model of your motherboard and from where did you obtain your SATA drivers?

[nrok]

on the computer i'm writing about, i down loaded from asus(it's an asus motherboard)
and i also tried to copy from the original drivers cd that came with the motherboard
and i got that message. the model is { p5v800-mx }
i tried with my computer aswell and copied the files from the cd that came with my motherboard and the same thing happened.
this file { viamrx64.sys } is corrupt. and the files are from diffrent places.

[SiliconJon]

How about the MakeDisk.exe on the driver CD? [CDDRIVE\Drivers\ITE8212 contains the drivers for the RAID - not sure if it includes the SATA, too] Perhaps the floppy it creates will be more cooperative. There may also be a readme file in that directory that may give a clue as to what's going wrong.

If the files are definitely not corrupt then the structure of the driver floppy and perhaps the slipstream into the CD install are not right. While I didn't get a corrupt error, instead received line specific file errors when I tried once to install XP onto SATA and didn't have the floppy drive made right it kept erroring out on the driver install due to not having the folders and files exactly the way they needed to be.

[nrok]

thank you very much for all the advice.
it worked with "make disk.exe"

[SiliconJon]

Glad to help because I know how good it feels when such a picky computer annoyance is solved!