Originally posted by: EateryOfPiza
Originally posted by: jaggerwild
Good Morning Mr. Eatery!
Very sorry for the confusion, I would just use the MB divers disk as it will have the drivers you need on it. I'm not to familiar with the AHCI features, but the driver have to be there.
Have you tried loading them in safe mode? Or try loading the system in regular IDE mode then turn on the ACHI after to see if it helps you?
Good Day All
Gigabyte's drivers disk does not include drivers for AHCI, just the INF Update Utility.
Originally posted by: TheBeagle
Good Afternoon Mr. EofP & Everyone.
Mr. EofP: I believe that you difficulty lies in a combination of factors. First, it is IMPERATIVE that you have selected ALL the proper BIOS settings in order for the OS to "see" a hard drive when you want to use AHCI. Therefore, AHCI must be selected as the type of hard drive driver, AND, you also need to select the combination of IDE/SATA as well.
Now you MUST load the AHCI driver on the VERY FIRST install of the OS. I do not believe that it is possible to load that AHCI driver afterward. So, if you have already installed the OS, then be prepared to re-install it, and have the proper driver loaded on a floppy disk and use the F6 within 3 seconds of the install setup launching. If you follow those steps, I believe that WinXP will "see" your hard drives. If you also are using some plain SATA devices, you will need to load those drivers as well during that initial install.
I hope that offers some help. Best regards to everyone. TheBeagle :beer:
When I did the reinstall, the settings in the BIOS were as follows:
SATA RAID/AHCI Mode - AHCI
SATA Port0-3 Native Mode - Disabled
Onboard SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode - RAID/IDE
Only drives in the system was a SATA DVD-RW, SATA Raptor, IDE DVD-ROM, Floppy
I'm going to disable the Gigabyte SATA and try the F6 method again.
EDIT: Okay, tried it, and now Windows is blue screening on me with these parameters: STOP: 0x0000007B (0xF78D663C, 0x0000034, 0x00000000, 0x00000000) I've commonly seen this on people who switch their BIOS from IDE Emulation Mode to ACHI on an existing Windows install, but I've never heard about it on a new Windows installation after installing the F6 drivers.