Just Booted My New Build

[ja9g08]

Im am running a core i7 950 on an ASUS x58 sabertooth motherboard.
In BIOS, none of my devices are being detected on the SATA ports.
They are all plugged in with a SATA data cable and power cable.
I can start a windows installation and then it tells me a required CD/DVD drive device driver is missing.
However when I browse for the driver I can see the blu ray drive I have and the device manual says there
is no need for driver installation. HELP!?

Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Jack

 

[WR2]

What type of CD/DVD drive do you have installed?

 

[ja9g08]

Its an LG CH10LS20 BD COMBO...I really don't understand because my windows boot disk is in there and it is starting the installation.
So confused why there is a missing CD/DVD driver.

 

[ja9g08]

May I add that the devices are connected to the SATA 6GB/s ports...could this be the problem? Do i need to boot on the 3GB/s SATA ports?

 

[WR2]

Lets give the 3GB/s ports a shot.

 

[ja9g08]

Hmmm. But both devices, hard drive and cd drive are detected during POST

 

[WR2]

Detected is a hardware thing. Software is a driver thing.
6GB/s DVD drivers? may not be there in the Win install disk.

 

[ja9g08]

ahh well I'm changing it over now...will let you know. My first build has taught me so much!!!

 

[WR2]

It's always an eye-opening experience.
And when everything goes right - amazingly easy.

But you only have to browse the forum here to know it doesn't always go easy.

 

[ja9g08]

Well that was a waste of time...I moved by blu ray drive to SATA 3GB/s, same problem.
So I moved my hard drive to 3GB/s as well, same problem.
All that happened was the windows setup loaded slower from the 3GB/s port.
What now?

 

[ja9g08]

Both drives are now detected in BIOS

 

[ja9g08]

Do i need to download a driver from somewhere!!? maybe for my motherboard or something....I am clueless

 

[WR2]

What kind of disc/software did you get with the Blu-Ray player?

 

[WR2]

Any special installation instructions in the Blu-ray player manual?

 

[ja9g08]

It says "no driver installation is required for this hardware" in the manual. I followed the instructions on the manual to the letter. I even looked for drivers on the software it came with just in case but there was none to be found.

Anyway, some progress, as an electronic engineering student I am a member of the microsoft msdn e-academy which means free windows 7. However it looks like when i downloaded the .iso something must have gone wrong because it is only 1GB in size? So I have requested an additional download...hopefully that will work. No wonder drivers are missing if all the code wasnt there!!!

I'll let you know if this solves the problem

 

[WR2]

You might just have broken the code there.
Should be somewhere between 2.5 and 3GB I believe.

 

[WR2]

My Win7 64bit Home Premium is right at 3.0GB

 

[ja9g08]

Thanks for your help....now I am bored waiting for windows 7 and just want to run my new PC!!!!!!!

A quick question, In my BIOS it only lists SATA ports 1 to 6 which are all SATA 3GB/s, but not the two 6GB/s ports. Do you think this can be changed in a BIOS update?