SATA problems

[ezzlar]

I have bought a new system and am trying to install Win XP. My new system:

Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 motherboard
Athlon 64 3000+ cpu
2x512 Kingston HyperX (CL2) PC2700
Raptor 36gb SATA HD
Gigabyte 6600GT vidcard
450W PSU

I boot the computer from the cd. I press F6 during install to install Sil3114 drivers for the SATA drive. The drive is added. I choose to install on the NTFS formatted SATA Raptor. Windows is installing. Then telling me its going to reboot in 15 sec. The computer reboots. Boots from Cd again and starts to read in the Win Xp installation program again and wants to overwrite the installation I just did. It just doesnt understand I have already installed....

In the BIOS boot order there are a couple of alternatives "Floppy", "LS120" (what is that?), "Hard disk", "USB - 3 alts". There is no SCSI/SATA alternative, should there be one? Even if I choose Hard disk as boot order 1 it wont read from the raptor and continue the installation.

Any ideas?

 

[Flinx]

Try this thread, it's only a few places down and they seem to have similar issues.

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The loving are the daring!

 

[ezzlar]

I found the solution. A terribly one...

1. When RAID is displayed after BIOS, press F10
2. Make a striping array of your single SATA HD. Choose it to be bootable.
3. Set it as first booting device in BIOS (Hard disk) after checking HD alternatives
4. Boot with WIN XP cd. Install. (Some people need to press F6 to install SATA drivers from a floppy, I didnt have to).
5. When install is finished it will recognize the SATA HD.

My confidence for Gigabyte dropped. Im going for ASUS again next upgrade.

 

[pat]

There is 2 kind of SATA controller on this board. The native one and the onboard one. The natives one are provided by the nforce4 chipset, and they dont need a SATA drivers unless you need RAID. You mention that you had to load the SIL drivers, which are for the onboard, or non native, controller. Then it is not gigabyte fault, as it works as an Add-On card on the PCI, thus, need a separate drivers and special tricks to have it working. Using the native SATA controller, which I guess are the ones on the right side of the chipset, would have require from you a trip i the BIOS to tell the board to enable the SATA controller and treat it as a SATA controller and not as a RAID controller. Then, having your HDD plugged in and installing windows would have been as easy as on normal IDE drive as native SATA controllers are recongnized as standard controller by windows...

So, read the [attitude check]fine[/attitude check] manual to see how enable and setup native SATA controller and disable the onboard controller if you dont need it.

-Always put the blame on you first, then on the hardware !!!

 

[sobelizard]

I most humbly agree. Surprising how many problems are 'made up' of failing to pay attention to details, especially reading the accompanying literature.

Nice / btw.

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[ezzlar]

Defective user it seems. I had turned on RAID function on the two SATA channels. They must be disabled....

Now it works as intended.