I could have told you they weren't going to work. Read reviews at Newegg before you make a purchase, they all said it wouldn't would with the DS3/S3 boards.Originally posted by: imaheadcase
Hey all, I just got me my 2 sata-IDE adapter and tried them out today, I know some been thinking about them. They are the Rosewill IDE Device to SATA Device Mini Vertical Bridge (for IDE device) Model RC204- Retail ...the verdict? CRAPTASTIC. Both of them failed to show up my BenQ1640 or both my Western Digital drives. I followed the instructions exactlly like they said
Originally posted by: Wag
I could have told you they weren't going to work. Read reviews at Newegg before you make a purchase, they all said it wouldn't would with the DS3/S3 boards.Originally posted by: imaheadcase
Hey all, I just got me my 2 sata-IDE adapter and tried them out today, I know some been thinking about them. They are the Rosewill IDE Device to SATA Device Mini Vertical Bridge (for IDE device) Model RC204- Retail ...the verdict? CRAPTASTIC. Both of them failed to show up my BenQ1640 or both my Western Digital drives. I followed the instructions exactlly like they said
The damn boards have sucky JMicron controllers. I can't get my IDE drives to work right yet and I'm 3 weeks into this POS. I really need to fix this thing.
The fact that I can't get the motherboard to even boot with the harddrives on a IDE controller card and ATAPIs off the mobo just mystifies me.
I will now, but I honestly don't think they will be of much help. How can they have a mobo that doesn't work with a SiI 0608 controller!?!? That's the most widely used ones!Originally posted by: Undersea
Have you contacted Gigabyte?
I've seen other posts like this but no help
Yes, a million times over. On CDFreaks people list similar problems and nobody seems to have any answers.Originally posted by: Undersea
The Bios updates so far have been great for OCing and the 1.8v bug. I'm sure they will correct all in time.
Have you checked extreme & HardOC?
Originally posted by: Wag
I could have told you they weren't going to work. Read reviews at Newegg before you make a purchase, they all said it wouldn't would with the DS3/S3 boards.Originally posted by: imaheadcase
Hey all, I just got me my 2 sata-IDE adapter and tried them out today, I know some been thinking about them. They are the Rosewill IDE Device to SATA Device Mini Vertical Bridge (for IDE device) Model RC204- Retail ...the verdict? CRAPTASTIC. Both of them failed to show up my BenQ1640 or both my Western Digital drives. I followed the instructions exactlly like they said
The damn boards have sucky JMicron controllers. I can't get my IDE drives to work right yet and I'm 3 weeks into this POS. I really need to fix this thing.
The fact that I can't get the motherboard to even boot with the harddrives on a IDE controller card and ATAPIs off the mobo just mystifies me.
Originally posted by: Undersea
Forget Easytune. Use bios,
Here is a little guide:
http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware...erclocking-Guide-v1-ftopict197995.html
Odd, I know but I thought I'd fool around with my ATAPI devices for the hell of it and I now have them working smoothly off my motherboard simply by changing AUTO to LARGE. That's it. Now my harddrives boot off my Promise controller as well, but the SiI based Rosewill card still hangs (go figure).Originally posted by: danielsan
About the IDE controller, you have 2 choices:
1) If your HDs are plugged into one of ICH8's SATA ports, just change the following BIOS setting:
- Integrated Peripherals -> Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode -> IDE mode
Reboot and, once again, enter BIOS Setup and open the Standard CMOS Features menu.
Press ENTER to autodetect devices on IDE Channel 4 Master, then change Extended IDE Drive and Access Mode to Auto.
If you have a slave IDE device, do the same on IDE Channel 4 Slave and finally Save & Exit Setup.
At the POST screen, you'll see your IDE devices being detected by the BIOS and the Gigabyte IDE/SATA BIOS will no longer be loaded, resulting in a faster boot.
This is the best way to use DVD/CD drives, because the Main BIOS handles the device detection and you can even choose CD-ROM in the Boot Menu (F12 key).
If you have already installed the JMicron driver, just change the driver to Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller. Now you can see/change the transfer mode of the IDE devices. Just open the properties of the third Primary IDE Channel in Device Manager.