Posts: 59
Threads: 20
Joined: Mar 2006
Reputation:
0
I have an ASUS f8VA. When it came, all I wanted to do was install SuSE 11 on it. It took me hours of scouring forums and rebooting and re-burning what I thought were corrupt DVD images, when I learned that I needed to change the IDE setting in my BIOS to "compatibility mode" instead of "enhanced mode". The problem is that when I reboot into Windows, I first need to change the BIOS back into enhanced mode. The same goes for Linux: I need to change BACK to compatibility mode in the BIOS and reboot AGAIN to start Linux.
From what I can gather, this is because of problems with Linux and SATA. Google will give me nothing, except more definitions of the problem. Can anybody else help me?
Posts: 3,631
Threads: 899
Joined: Dec 2003
Reputation:
0
when you boot back into windows is it XP ?
if so I can help
Posts: 59
Threads: 20
Joined: Mar 2006
Reputation:
0
No, it's 32-bit Vista Home Premium. I don't have the time or motivation to dig up XP drivers for this thing, and Vista runs decently well on it. I just need it for certain programs I use for school, I'd like to use Linux for everything else.
Posts: 3,631
Threads: 899
Joined: Dec 2003
Reputation:
0
try opening device manager, locate and double click on the hard disc controller *change driver* from SATA or whatever it\s listed as to Standard Dual Channel PCI/IDE
then you should be able to reboot and boot with the bios set to enhanced (or vice versa)
try it !
cheers
anyweb
