vista native mode

I currently have a copy of vista (5308) that was sent to me by Daryll (who is over on facebook alot as an MS employee). My hardware is this
2 SATA drives 1 DVD +/- DL RW drive (PATA) 2.8 Ghz HT P4 2 Gig Dual Channel RAM nVidia FX 5200 (256MB VRAM 8x AGP) Asus P4P 800 SE mobo
Well if I have Native mode selected for my HD Control (It has Native/Enhanced and Compatibility). The difference is that Enhanced mode allows for 4 PATA and 2 SATA drives = 6 total. Compat mode only allows for 4 drives (PATA Only, Primary PATA + SATA, Secondary PATA + SATA)
Whenever I have it on Enhanced mode, Vista will not boot, Vista will not install. The install crashes and booting it tells me my kernel is corrupt (otherwise, not found). The minute i switch back to compat. everything is fine (except Disk I/O isnt as good).
Is this a Vista problem, or would it be a motherboard problem ?? Since it works fine in all other OSes (ok at first there was a problem with linux, but the new kernel fixed that), im assuming it is a vista problem. Does anyone have any ideas on it ?

All I could really suggest is a clean install... but that might not be much use to you :o( Just a thought really :o)
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--: Original message follows :-- "Michael Luschas" wrote in message

I currently have a copy of vista (5308) that was sent to me by Daryll (who is over on facebook alot as an MS employee). My hardware is this
2 SATA drives 1 DVD +/- DL RW drive (PATA) 2.8 Ghz HT P4 2 Gig Dual Channel RAM nVidia FX 5200 (256MB VRAM 8x AGP) Asus P4P 800 SE mobo
Well if I have Native mode selected for my HD Control (It has Native/Enhanced and Compatibility). The difference is that Enhanced mode allows for 4 PATA and 2 SATA drives = 6 total. Compat mode only allows for 4 drives (PATA Only, Primary PATA + SATA, Secondary PATA + SATA)
Whenever I have it on Enhanced mode, Vista will not boot, Vista will not install. The install crashes and booting it tells me my kernel is corrupt (otherwise, not found). The minute i switch back to compat. everything is fine (except Disk I/O isnt as good).
Is this a Vista problem, or would it be a motherboard problem ?? Since it works fine in all other OSes (ok at first there was a problem with linux, but the new kernel fixed that), im assuming it is a vista problem. Does anyone have any ideas on it ?

This usually indicates Vista does not have a driver to address your SATA controller directly, so the SATA controller is emulating a PATA controller, which Vista is talking fine with. You will probably need to obtain an updated Vista compatible driver for your SATA controller.
Jeff Warren
"Michael Luschas" wrote in message

I currently have a copy of vista (5308) that was sent to me by Daryll (who is over on facebook alot as an MS employee). My hardware is this
2 SATA drives 1 DVD +/- DL RW drive (PATA) 2.8 Ghz HT P4 2 Gig Dual Channel RAM nVidia FX 5200 (256MB VRAM 8x AGP) Asus P4P 800 SE mobo
Well if I have Native mode selected for my HD Control (It has Native/Enhanced and Compatibility). The difference is that Enhanced mode allows for 4 PATA and 2 SATA drives = 6 total. Compat mode only allows for 4 drives (PATA Only, Primary PATA + SATA, Secondary PATA + SATA)
Whenever I have it on Enhanced mode, Vista will not boot, Vista will not install. The install crashes and booting it tells me my kernel is corrupt (otherwise, not found). The minute i switch back to compat. everything is fine (except Disk I/O isnt as good).
Is this a Vista problem, or would it be a motherboard problem ?? Since it works fine in all other OSes (ok at first there was a problem with linux, but the new kernel fixed that), im assuming it is a vista problem. Does anyone have any ideas on it ?

Well it was adressing it fine. Also, It was a clean install (attempt). lol. What i mean by adressing it, was that it was finding it without loading drivers, and its not a RAID.
"Jeff Warren" wrote in message

This usually indicates Vista does not have a driver to address your SATA controller directly, so the SATA controller is emulating a PATA controller, which Vista is talking fine with. You will probably need to obtain an updated Vista compatible driver for your SATA controller.
Jeff Warren
"Michael Luschas" wrote in message I currently have a copy of vista (5308) that was sent to me by Daryll (who is over on facebook alot as an MS employee). My hardware is this
2 SATA drives 1 DVD +/- DL RW drive (PATA) 2.8 Ghz HT P4 2 Gig Dual Channel RAM nVidia FX 5200 (256MB VRAM 8x AGP) Asus P4P 800 SE mobo
Well if I have Native mode selected for my HD Control (It has Native/Enhanced and Compatibility). The difference is that Enhanced mode allows for 4 PATA and 2 SATA drives = 6 total. Compat mode only allows for 4 drives (PATA Only, Primary PATA + SATA, Secondary PATA + SATA)
Whenever I have it on Enhanced mode, Vista will not boot, Vista will not install. The install crashes and booting it tells me my kernel is corrupt (otherwise, not found). The minute i switch back to compat. everything is fine (except Disk I/O isnt as good).
Is this a Vista problem, or would it be a motherboard problem ?? Since it works fine in all other OSes (ok at first there was a problem with linux, but the new kernel fixed that), im assuming it is a vista problem. Does anyone have any ideas on it ?