HeXaKing

i am having big probs loading the drivers to get the sata to work, i am trying to set it up to use 1 western digital sata 120Gb in base mode, i have been through the users manual word by word. In one section it says press the F6 button on startup to get into the setup menu but nothing happens when i press the f6 button, i have tried everything in the book, am i missing something or has everyone with this M/board haveing the same probs or is it just me???
have also been on to the gigabyte web site and got no joy there, wot else can i do ? HHHEEELLLPPP

xms

I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to do, but if you are trying to install a fresh copy of windows you will need your SATA driver disk when installing. It should come up with something at the bottom of the screen saying 'Press F? to install additional drivers'.

HeXaKing

wow? another person in Essex, that makes 2 of Us. What i am trying to do is install a sata 120Gb hard drive into an existing win xp(sp1) setup. And i am haveing big probs trying to get the drivers installed.

When i done the original install i didnt press F6, so i didnt have the raid and scussy drivers installed.
hope this helps

xms

Hi mate, where in Essex r u from? Small world

I've never used your board before, but in your bios do you have the drives set as RAID? If so, is it possible to switch them back to ordinary SATA drives?

HeXaKing

pm on its way.

Have set the bios up to use base satta, have done everything by the book but still no joy

xms

Just replied to your PM. To be honest, if you still cant get into windows the quickest option would be to do a reinstall - unless you have loads of stuff on there u need to keep?

HeXaKing

have to much on it to do that, that will be my last option.

There must be away around it some how, if not does anyone want to buy or swap something for a 120gb sata wetern digital hard drive ?

xms

The only other think you could maybe try is doing a repair on windows (basically going as if you was going to reinstall - but choosing the repair option), and make sure during the first screen of the windows setup, you get it to load the sata drivers.

This way, you won't loose anything on your disk.

HeXaKing

Am going to try that now be back l8r to let you know how it goes????

xms

Cool. Got my fingers X'd 4 ya