Hi all. Thanks for taking time to read this.
I just finished putting together my new system last night (so excited). Everything went together fine, system POSTs and all. Specs are below.
MB: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
CPU: Intel E6750
RAM: 2x1GB Corsair XMS DDR2-800 (PC2-6400)
OS HDD: WD Raptor 36GB (model: wd360adfd)
OTHER HDD: WD 320GB SATA drive (model: wd3200aaks)
GPU: eVGA 8800GTX
DVD-ROM: ASUS DVD-E616A3T (SATA)
DVD Burner: Plextor PX-800
PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610
CASE: Antec P180B
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
First of all, when I go into the BIOS, my 3 SATA devices are detected as IDE. I have them connected on the MB as follows (the DVD Burner is the only IDE device):
Device --> MB SATA port
OS HDD (raptor) --> SATAII0
OTHER HDD --> SATAII1
DVD-ROM --> SATAII2
In the BIOS, however, the devices are listed as follows:
IDE0 Master --> OS HDD
IDE0 Slave --> DVD-ROM
IDE1 Master --> OTHER HDD
IDE5 Master --> DVD Burner
Shouldn't the devices be detected as SATA, not IDE? Or do I just not understand entirely how it's supposed to work?
Secondly, at first I simply ignored my previous "problem" of SATA devices showing up as IDE and I tried to install Vista Home Premium. Everything was fine until I got to the screen asking where I wanted to install Vista. Both my HDDs showed up as options (Disks 0 and 1, both labelled as unallocated space) (side note: my 320GB HDD shows up as 298GB, I figure it's due to actual usable space, or is there a problem?). But when I try to install to the raptor (or the other HDD for that matter) I get an error, something about the HDD doesn't meet criteria as bootable device. Do I need to setup something different in BIOS or install SATA drivers? I thought one had to install drivers only if setting up RAID or using Gigabyte's SATA controller (purple ports on MB)?
I'm not doing RAID with my drives, I just want the OS on the raptor and I'll put everything else on the other HDD. I appreciate any help the gurus out there can offer.
I just finished putting together my new system last night (so excited). Everything went together fine, system POSTs and all. Specs are below.
MB: Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R
CPU: Intel E6750
RAM: 2x1GB Corsair XMS DDR2-800 (PC2-6400)
OS HDD: WD Raptor 36GB (model: wd360adfd)
OTHER HDD: WD 320GB SATA drive (model: wd3200aaks)
GPU: eVGA 8800GTX
DVD-ROM: ASUS DVD-E616A3T (SATA)
DVD Burner: Plextor PX-800
PSU: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610
CASE: Antec P180B
OS: Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
First of all, when I go into the BIOS, my 3 SATA devices are detected as IDE. I have them connected on the MB as follows (the DVD Burner is the only IDE device):
Device --> MB SATA port
OS HDD (raptor) --> SATAII0
OTHER HDD --> SATAII1
DVD-ROM --> SATAII2
In the BIOS, however, the devices are listed as follows:
IDE0 Master --> OS HDD
IDE0 Slave --> DVD-ROM
IDE1 Master --> OTHER HDD
IDE5 Master --> DVD Burner
Shouldn't the devices be detected as SATA, not IDE? Or do I just not understand entirely how it's supposed to work?
Secondly, at first I simply ignored my previous "problem" of SATA devices showing up as IDE and I tried to install Vista Home Premium. Everything was fine until I got to the screen asking where I wanted to install Vista. Both my HDDs showed up as options (Disks 0 and 1, both labelled as unallocated space) (side note: my 320GB HDD shows up as 298GB, I figure it's due to actual usable space, or is there a problem?). But when I try to install to the raptor (or the other HDD for that matter) I get an error, something about the HDD doesn't meet criteria as bootable device. Do I need to setup something different in BIOS or install SATA drivers? I thought one had to install drivers only if setting up RAID or using Gigabyte's SATA controller (purple ports on MB)?
I'm not doing RAID with my drives, I just want the OS on the raptor and I'll put everything else on the other HDD. I appreciate any help the gurus out there can offer.