SATA newbie needs help with GA-8IK1100

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Simon,

You should reinstall Windows 2k/XP. RIght now your motherboard is
tricking windows into thinking this is an IDE drive, but that
remapping process is taking a major hit on drive/system performance.

Go into the bios and set the 81K1100 SATA option to just Serial ATA
(not IDE like you have it, and not auto). That's your only hard
drive, I assume. Put your optical drives on the secondary IDE channel
(CDROM/DVD/etc) as you normally would.

Double check the boot priority menu -- it should have your CDRW/floppy
first, and then the SATA drive in the list after those. If you had
another IDE hard drive, you'd have it on the IDE primary channel
SLAVE** position, and make sure that you set it lower priority in the
boot sequence.

Make the floppy disk for the Intel ICH5 Raid (even though you're not
using raid).(hint, get the floppyu from intel's site (search by the
875 chipset) not gigabyte, it will be more recent)

F6 during the windows installation, and use the floppy to load the
base drivers for the ICH5 (you need them whether you use the Raid
functionality or not, and you can't really do it after the fact.)
Windows will install pretty much normally once you go through the
dance with the floppy disk.

Once up and running, install drivers in this sequence:
Intel INF driver (and reboot)
Video (reboot)
sound (Reboot)
others as necssary for your os

***NOTE!! Since you aren't running RAID on the ICH5, you don't install
the windows driver. this is why you got incompatable hardware messages
before.

Then finally hit windowsupdate for service packs and such.

Zac

"Simon Robbins" <simon@NOSPAMsjrobbins.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<cdpcin$fop$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk>...
> Hi,
> I've just put a Maxtor SATA 80Gb drive unto a GA-8IK1100 motherboard since
> my IDE drive just died on me. Not having any previous SCSI or SATA
> experience I've struggled a bit getting it all to work. The BIOS had no
> problems identifying the drive but Windows setup simply said there was no
> drive to install onto. So I configured the BIOS to mimic IDE-MASTER for the
> first SATA device and it worked. I now have Windows installed. But how can I
> get it working as a serial ATA drive or would I have to start again with a
> fresh install? I tried installing the Intel drivers that the Gigabyte
> website told me were for my board but the installer says it's incompatible
> hardware. I've also got the floppy version to interrupt the Windows
> installation, but don't want to risk that if it's the wrong software also.
> Anybody been through this can offer any advice or links to the right
> drivers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Si