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Hey,

well i've just received my 'new' refurbished gigabyte GA-H55M-D2H moatherboard.
I've plugged in a 1 GB DDR3 memory and a i3-550 cpu.
additionally i have a samsung 120GB SDD drive and temporarily a DVD drive with an original windows XP CD to reinstall windows.

ofcourse it wouldn't boot from the old windows installation it thought, but after i tried to reinstall i found that it still hangs after windows does the copiing of the windows files to the hd and then reboots.

now i know that this seems to be a gigbyte known issue. at least i've seen the question multiplely when googled. and all seems to have a gigabyte mainboard, but none of the situations coincided with mine, and neither did the answers.

anyway i tried to reinstall windows xp.
i have allready one partition (after a empty space) on the SDD drive... which windows sees as partition 1. now when i install windows on the designated space before this allready exsisting partition. windows makes a logical partition (think it was called that, but i'm tired, it looks like a partition embedded in an other partition) and names this partition 2.

this has always been the case and windows sees this as the D drive, but had no problem booting from it before.

now i did the same and i just doesn't boot from it. as said it sets-up the windows files from the cd to the hd and on reboot it just hangs.

i've put the bios back in failsafe settings but, didn't work, not even after again copiing the windows installation.

anyone have any idea how to solve this?

grtz matthieu

ps: i use an old 20 pins psu, but this is a 24 pins mainboard. but this shouldn't be an issue, should it?

 
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ithe will read throught this as it sounds very informative, but on my old board (even older) i used this drive to. also with xp and had no issues at all.

as mentioned, it seems to be an gigabyte problem rather than the drive.

althought, i have thought about a sata problem, i will test this tomorrow or int he weekend.



 
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my buddy uses gigabyte now with ssd and don't talk of any issues with them of corse hes not running xp .. don't know much on that 20 pin thing I just get full compatibility for my builds my self I don't use ssd I don't have time for there issues here so I stick with tired and true plate drives and set them all to ide [no issues even with xp]
 
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i've used this SSD with xp before on a different mainboard, had no problems there.
but i also tried an normal sata had, which had no problems booting (it did but that was a windows installation problem, it did get well passed the loading operating system)

so i stick to my initial thought that it is a gigabyte vs ssd issue.

i've tried ahci, but didn't help.

i've also tried a 20 to 24 pin converter.. but this didn't help either.

the reason why i want the SSD, is that i'm building an system pure solid state. so without ANY moving parts for an audio system... so the drive is rather essential for the project and it should work as the other even older board with same os has no problems at all.

grtz.

 
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well I guess, seeing that if its asus gigabyte asrock who ever that's controlled from the chipset if its a intel chipset the issue should be all brands cause its all intel drivers or the firmware of the drive.. did you check on that drives firmware to see?

then heres the kicker of this ---- refurbished gigabyte GA-H55M-D2H
how much weight can I put in that ?? next to I got it from a guy on e-bay not much.. its hard enough to buy first quality and have it work 100% out of the box these days
looking here it don't seem to have a good track record to start with

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128421
 
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