I just put together a new system yesterday and am having a strange issue where the system gives me a blue screen whenever I try to load a cd or dvd. The system consists of the following:
 
Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 motherboard
AMD X2 5000+ Black Edition with Arctic Freezer 64 Pro cooler (still clocked at stock speeds until I figure out this issue)
EVGA 8800 GT 512 MB
2x1GB 800 mhz A-data ram
2x320 Gig Seagate Sata drives in raid 0
Lite-on LH-20A1L sata dvd burner
Corsair 450 Power supply (and please don't flame me saying that 450 watts is not enough, I know this power supply had more than enough power)
 
The exact error is Driver IRQ not less or euqal Stop 0x000000d1 ahcix86.sys and then an address number
 
I understand that the ahcix86.sys file is related to the sata controller so I did the following things in this order (none of them helped)
1. Updated the chipset drivers from Gigabyte's site (if anybody has anything newer please do let me know)
2. Updated the firmware of the dvd drive
3. Flashed the bios of the motherboard (almost froze the board, and had to take out the battery, piece of crap windows based bios flash)
4. Uninstalled all of the sata devices in the the device manager and let windows reinstall them
 
The system seems perfectly stable except almost every time I put in a disc the computer comes up with that blue screen. I did run Memtest86+ a few passes to make sure that I didn't get bad ram. I know that the dvd drive is in working order as I used it on my work computer fine. I also know that the hard drives are in working order as I bought them last year and had them in an old machine until earlier this week. All of the rest of the parts are brand new.
 
Thanks for any help since I am dreading calling Gigabyte.
 
 
 
Edit: I talked to an idiot from Gigabyte and he told me that you cannot run a raid setup and have a sata dvd drive hooked up because the chipset will only handle either raid or ahci. Can anybody confirm this before I talk to another idiot at Gigabyte?  

Hi Joel from another,
 
Good taste in Mobos.  Unfortunately the SATA controller is the one headache on this board.  You may have to get an IDE DVD Burner.  I had similar problems on this board with a different SATA Configuration.  Since there was only 1 IDE plug and I had 3 IDE devices, I used a SATA adapter to hook up an extra DVD Burner and ran into this same issue before I gave up and replaced my backup IDE drive with the burner.  No problems since.  Hope this helps.  If you have to talk to Gigabyte, try to leave a detailed email instead of the live chat.  I've gotten better information this way.  I think the live chat thing is just to placate us.  Good Luck

I decided to drop the raid for now, and just use the sata hard drives in native ide mode. I might get a real raid card later, but for now I am doing a dual boot with ubuntu 8.04 and windows xp so it is probably less head aches to use native ide instead of raid or ahci. It is a bit disappoint though. But then again, I think most onboard raid controllers are trash, and this one seems no different.

Hi
I had the same problem on Gigabyte MA790X-DS4 board. When I installed RAID 0 and sata DVD, I've experienced bluescreens in Windows everytime I've tried to open/close DVD.  
I really started to think those idiots from Gigabyte didn't  think of someone using sata RAID and sata DVD at the same time.  
It turned out that it was simply RAID drivers problem. I've used RAID Drivers 2.5.1540.44 version and thought it was the lates one. After few hour of serching I found 3.0.1540.46 version. Try installing it, it helped in my case.  
 
link:
http://wwwd.amd.com/AMD/SReleaseF. [...] enDocument
 
Enter this site and download Drivers (Six Languages) v8.477 (116MB). This archive contains x86 RAID drivers 3.0.1540.46 version.
After unzipping the file don't install the whole package via setup.exe. It will corrupt your system. Try instead upgrading your RAID drivers from control panell/system/device manager. (ATI AHCI Compatible RAID controller device)
 
RAID driver is in "\XP32-6Lang\SBDrv\RAID\x86\x86" folder.  
You can also try installing other drivers from "\XP32-6Lang\SBDrv" folder for example:
- IDEATA133
- SMBUS
- WebPam
Don not install stuff from "\XP32-6Lang\SBDrv\SATARAID" folder because it's some Silicon Image SiI 3112 driver. The Gigabyte board isn't equipped with one
 
I hope I helped you solving the problem!