Vista DVD won't boot

Hi everybody. I have found many similar threads but none of them see
to fit the situation exactly and none of the solutions have worked ye
so here goes

I just built a new computer and am trying to load and DVD OEM Vist
ultimate x64 OS

I have 4 SATA hard disks and 1 SATA Sony bdu-x10s blu-ray drive. I hav
configured the 4 HDDs in Bios for RAID0. I also set BIOS to boot fro
the Sony drive only

When I put the Vista disk in and power on the computer I notice that i
loads the HDDs very quickly and sits on the Sony for a long time ~3
seconds. then it checks the disk and says no bootable media found.
observed that if I remove the disk and power on the computer the Son
drive loads just as quickly as the HDDs (<1s)

First I checked the disk on a 32 bit laptop I have. it opens in window
fine (though throws an error that it can't install on this computer
because it's 32 bit). it also boots ok, again throwing the same error

Then I checked the drive with a XP x32 disk, that boots and loads fin
however I cannot install because I require the 3rd party RAID driver
which can only be installed with Floppy on XP and I have no floppy driv
(I am currently experimenting with nLite to load the drivers on the X
ISO. No luck on my first shot but I'll keep trying

Any ideas why the DVD won't boot? I have the latest driver for the BIO
on my Rampage II Extreme Motherboard (1406 bios version

Thanks

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whitik

try a usb flash drive to load sata drivers. you may have to disable raid
in the bios.


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kword88

A firmware update for the DVD drive might help. See
http://sony.storagesupport.com/node/7187.

Can you test the BDU-X10S drive in another machine to confirm it is not
defective?

nLite should do the job for your laptop. You could also consider a USB
floppy drive e.g. http://sony.storagesupport.com/product/26 .



On 30/07/2009 05:50, whitik wrote:
> Hi everybody. I have found many similar threads but none of them seem
> to fit the situation exactly and none of the solutions have worked yet
> so here goes.
>
> I just built a new computer and am trying to load and DVD OEM Vista
> ultimate x64 OS.
>
> I have 4 SATA hard disks and 1 SATA Sony bdu-x10s blu-ray drive. I have
> configured the 4 HDDs in Bios for RAID0. I also set BIOS to boot from
> the Sony drive only.
>
> When I put the Vista disk in and power on the computer I notice that it
> loads the HDDs very quickly and sits on the Sony for a long time ~30
> seconds. then it checks the disk and says no bootable media found. I
> observed that if I remove the disk and power on the computer the Sony
> drive loads just as quickly as the HDDs (<1s).
>
> First I checked the disk on a 32 bit laptop I have. it opens in windows
> fine (though throws an error that it can't install on this computer,
> because it's 32 bit). it also boots ok, again throwing the same error.
>
> Then I checked the drive with a XP x32 disk, that boots and loads fine
> however I cannot install because I require the 3rd party RAID drivers
> which can only be installed with Floppy on XP and I have no floppy drive
> (I am currently experimenting with nLite to load the drivers on the XP
> ISO. No luck on my first shot but I'll keep trying)
>
> Any ideas why the DVD won't boot? I have the latest driver for the BIOS
> on my Rampage II Extreme Motherboard (1406 bios version)
>
> Thanks!
>
>

kword88;1101911 Wrote:
> try a usb flash drive to load sata drivers. you may have to disable raid
> in the bios.


I can use usb flash to load the drivers with Vista (execept the DVD
won't load) but not with XP which can only use Floppy...

If i disable RAID then my drives won't be in a RAID0 array.... I want
them in a RAID0 array...


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whitik

I will check the firmware update for Sony, thanks. Can I update the
firmware without an OS?

As I mentioned the Sony drive loads the XP cd just fine so I think it
is ok. I suppose maybe the DVD laser could be defective, I will try to
create another bootable DVD and see if it loads. I do not have another
machine to put the Drive into

Thanks for the suggestions.

Dominic Payer;1101914 Wrote:
> A firmware update for the DVD drive might help. See
> 'BDUX10S Firmware Upgrade Version 1.0d | Sony Storage Support'
> (http://sony.storagesupport.com/node/7187).
>
> Can you test the BDU-X10S drive in another machine to confirm it is not
> defective?
>
> nLite should do the job for your laptop. You could also consider a USB
> floppy drive e.g. 'Product Details | Sony Storage Support'
> (http://sony.storagesupport.com/product/26) .
>


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whitik

I checked the firmware update which was issued 05/28/2008, I just got my
drive this week so I'm sure the firmware is up to date



whitik;1101942 Wrote:
> I will check the firmware update for Sony, thanks. Can I update the
> firmware without an OS?
>
> As I mentioned the Sony drive loads the XP cd just fine so I think it
> is ok. I suppose maybe the DVD laser could be defective, I will try to
> create another bootable DVD and see if it loads. I do not have another
> machine to put the Drive into
>
> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> > Dominic Payer;1101914 Wrote:
> > A firmware update for the DVD drive might help. See
> > 'BDUX10S Firmware Upgrade Version 1.0d | Sony Storage Support'
> > (http://sony.storagesupport.com/node/7187).
> >
> > Can you test the BDU-X10S drive in another machine to confirm it is not
> > defective?
> >
> > nLite should do the job for your laptop. You could also consider a USB
> > floppy drive e.g. 'Product Details | Sony Storage Support'
> > (http://sony.storagesupport.com/product/26) .
> > > >


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whitik

I got a couple more vista disks from some friends and tried them, one
didn't boot, the second did... so not sure why but it's working now.


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whitik