Where Are The Gigabyte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboards?

[EateryOfPiza]

Originally posted by: TheBeagle
Good Morning Mr. EofP & Everyone.

Mr. EofP: Did you download the right set of drivers for 32 bit OS? If so, the SP3 may have some effect on the checking routine that new drivers undertake before they install.

May I suggest that you go to the Intel web site and check there for your storage drivers. There may also be some information on SP3 compatibility on the Intel site as well. Good luck with you problem, but there's likely a resolution out there for you if you search for it.

Best regards to everyone. TheBeagle :beer:

Intel integrates x64 and x32 drivers in the same package. I've tried both Intel and Gigabyte drivers. A quick Google of SP3 and Intel Matrix drivers reveals a bunch of people trying to do RAID and slipstream drivers, but nothing with AHCI after installation.

 

[Blazer7]

OMG I?ve never really had a look at jaggerwild?s sig. Is that a Q6600 @4GHz ?!!? whooaaaa?. That surely explains the whole thing. Mr Beagle you are 100% right. This is clearly too much for this system. Hell, I would consider anything beyond 3.6 as pure overkill for this cpu.

@jagerrwild, You should really consider loosening those timings a bit. If possible, drop your NB/SB voltage a notch or two. This will definitely help with the stability and data corruption issues. Then you should get your hands on a really-really good HSF for your SB or add a water block and put it in your water loop.

 

[jaggerwild]

Originally posted by: EateryOfPiza
I'm trying to install the drivers for the Intel ICH9R southbridge (otherwise known as the Intel Matrix Driver) and on both the installer from Intel and the installer from Gigabyte, I am getting errors saying that my system does not meet the minimum requirements. Anybody know what is going on? Do these drivers not like being installed on XP SP3 32 bit?

Hello Mr Eatery!
Assuming you have proper disk space then, make sure mem sticks in the proper slots for just two sticks. If you have 1gig sticks might try them.Make sure that the drivers are 32 bit XP divers as the board disk has both sets on it(XP32,Vista64), also you will need a DVD driver to load them from.
Can you remove the up dates(SP1+2) then reinstall them latter? The south bridge drivers are in the Intel INF folder, witch should have been installed long ago. If your trying to install the raid drivers do so from a floppy during OS install after hitting the F6 button while windows loads.

@Mr. Beagle,

So I go to boot up tonight and I have issues, not over clocked but have taken this board to the edge and back. But when I put my GPU'S under water I upgraded my tubes to half inch ID(they were 3/8 ID). And I was getting great temps before with a little MCP355 pump, I now have two MCP 655 pumps one on the CPU and NB the other on the four GPU'S EK water blocks. Temps were high so I got a separate reservoir for both. right now at idle CPU temp's are 34,32,29,29 real temp software. Was using everest ultimate but suspected it was the cause so out it went.
I had no issues before the upgrade so see only something has changed between then and now? Only things are drivers, I'll swap them. Also I have heard of ATI driver removing other drivers, and under the Intel folder I found a file that says to uninstall any other driver before installing them?
I am also getting a USB drivers missing when booting in Vista64? But it shows all other stuff OK? So i did remove then reinstall the Intel drivers, to try and fix it but no go?

@ Mr. Blazer,
LOL, it's was with only water on the NB and CPU. Yes I do not run it at that clock all the time but have had it there and higher even(good cooling). Again I had no issues prior to the upgrade and nothing went wrong in the upgrade.(you guys posted before I could reply)
Thanks guys!:beer:

 

[EateryOfPiza]

Originally posted by: jaggerwild

Originally posted by: EateryOfPiza
I'm trying to install the drivers for the Intel ICH9R southbridge (otherwise known as the Intel Matrix Driver) and on both the installer from Intel and the installer from Gigabyte, I am getting errors saying that my system does not meet the minimum requirements. Anybody know what is going on? Do these drivers not like being installed on XP SP3 32 bit?

Hello Mr Eatery!
Assuming you have proper disk space then, make sure mem sticks in the proper slots for just two sticks. If you have 1gig sticks might try them.Make sure that the drivers are 32 bit XP divers as the board disk has both sets on it(XP32,Vista64), also you will need a DVD driver to load them from.
Can you remove the up dates(SP1+2) then reinstall them latter? The south bridge drivers are in the Intel INF folder, witch should have been installed long ago. If your trying to install the raid drivers do so from a floppy during OS install after hitting the F6 button while windows loads.

Got a response from Intel that said "you need to change this to AHCI or RAID and then reinstall the operating system deploying F6 drivers."

EDIT: That didn't work. I basically put the Gigabyte provided ICH9R drivers onto a floppy, reboot with the Windows CD and did the F6 thing and added the ICH9R SATA RAID drivers, but Windows still can't find my hard drive. I even tried the Intel ICH9R drivers. Now I'm at a loss.

 

[jaggerwild]

Originally posted by: EateryOfPiza

Originally posted by: jaggerwild

Originally posted by: EateryOfPiza
I'm trying to install the drivers for the Intel ICH9R southbridge (otherwise known as the Intel Matrix Driver) and on both the installer from Intel and the installer from Gigabyte, I am getting errors saying that my system does not meet the minimum requirements. Anybody know what is going on? Do these drivers not like being installed on XP SP3 32 bit?

Hello Mr Eatery!
Assuming you have proper disk space then, make sure mem sticks in the proper slots for just two sticks. If you have 1gig sticks might try them.Make sure that the drivers are 32 bit XP divers as the board disk has both sets on it(XP32,Vista64), also you will need a DVD driver to load them from.
Can you remove the up dates(SP1+2) then reinstall them latter? The south bridge drivers are in the Intel INF folder, witch should have been installed long ago. If your trying to install the raid drivers do so from a floppy during OS install after hitting the F6 button while windows loads.

Got a response from Intel that said "you need to change this to AHCI or RAID and then reinstall the operating system deploying F6 drivers."

EDIT: That didn't work. I basically put the Gigabyte provided ICH9R drivers onto a floppy, reboot with the Windows CD and did the F6 thing and added the ICH9R SATA RAID drivers, but Windows still can't find my hard drive. I even tried the Intel ICH9R drivers. Now I'm at a loss.

Hey Eatery,
Did you build the Intel raid first before trying to load the OS? When it boots from the disk, after hitting F6 then it should see the hard drives but only if there raid.
Hope this helps you.............Also in the bios under integrated peripherals, if you look in the book for the MB, it shows setting up the Intel raid. If you notice it has the upper one on raid(sata raid/set to raid) and the lower one too(onboard Sata/IDE Device(ON)onboard Sata /IDE control mode(RAID), this is important as it will not see it if not.
Also make sure the Sata cables from the disks are on the purple (giga-sata ports too).
OK,
ON my issue. I figured it out, corrupted OS nothing more. Just not been willing to delete then reinstall the OS as it is A PITA to do. Also have to do it for both OS systems, thinking of getting two small drives and loading the OS on them then have the raid run all the other stuff. So as not to have to deal with this BS any more.
Regards all :beer:

 

[jaggerwild]

Hey guys on a separate topic,

Looks like EVGA will be selling Intel boards now, rumor have it that Intel now owns SLI. Think its not so? Look at the EVGA forums they took down there SLI section today.

 

[EateryOfPiza]

Originally posted by: jaggerwild

Originally posted by: EateryOfPiza

Originally posted by: jaggerwild

Originally posted by: EateryOfPiza
I'm trying to install the drivers for the Intel ICH9R southbridge (otherwise known as the Intel Matrix Driver) and on both the installer from Intel and the installer from Gigabyte, I am getting errors saying that my system does not meet the minimum requirements. Anybody know what is going on? Do these drivers not like being installed on XP SP3 32 bit?

Hello Mr Eatery!
Assuming you have proper disk space then, make sure mem sticks in the proper slots for just two sticks. If you have 1gig sticks might try them.Make sure that the drivers are 32 bit XP divers as the board disk has both sets on it(XP32,Vista64), also you will need a DVD driver to load them from.
Can you remove the up dates(SP1+2) then reinstall them latter? The south bridge drivers are in the Intel INF folder, witch should have been installed long ago. If your trying to install the raid drivers do so from a floppy during OS install after hitting the F6 button while windows loads.

Got a response from Intel that said "you need to change this to AHCI or RAID and then reinstall the operating system deploying F6 drivers."

EDIT: That didn't work. I basically put the Gigabyte provided ICH9R drivers onto a floppy, reboot with the Windows CD and did the F6 thing and added the ICH9R SATA RAID drivers, but Windows still can't find my hard drive. I even tried the Intel ICH9R drivers. Now I'm at a loss.

Hey Eatery,
Did you build the Intel raid first before trying to load the OS? When it boots from the disk, after hitting F6 then it should see the hard drives but only if there raid.
Hope this helps you.............Also in the bios under integrated peripherals, if you look in the book for the MB, it shows setting up the Intel raid. If you notice it has the upper one on raid(sata raid/set to raid) and the lower one too(onboard Sata/IDE Device(ON)onboard Sata /IDE control mode(RAID), this is important as it will not see it if not.
Also make sure the Sata cables from the disks are on the purple (giga-sata ports too).

Im not running RAID. Just AHCI. Also, there is only one hard drive connected to SATA port 0. A SATA DVD Burner on SATA port 1 and then a DVD-ROM on IDE.

 

[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

 

[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:

 

[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.

 

[jaggerwild]

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.

Good evening Mr. Pizza!

OK,
You do not need the raid settings in bios, sorry that was if you were trying to go raid. Try these settings in Bios:Sata raid/AHCI mode(AHCI),SATA port0-3Native mode(Native),Onboard SATA/IDE device(these are for the Gigabyte or purple ports)I would try IDE first,Onboard SATA/IDE controler(AHCI).
Good luck very sorry for the confusion we will get you going here!
When you do change stuff in bios only change one thing at a time to see if that change worked for you, if you change more than one then you will not know what did it........

 

[EateryOfPiza]

Originally posted by: jaggerwild

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.

Good evening Mr. Pizza!

OK,
You do not need the raid settings in bios, sorry that was if you were trying to go raid. Try these settings in Bios:Sata raid/AHCI mode(AHCI),SATA port0-3Native mode(Native),Onboard SATA/IDE device(these are for the Gigabyte or purple ports)I would try IDE first,Onboard SATA/IDE controler(AHCI).
Good luck very sorry for the confusion we will get you going here!
When you do change stuff in bios only change one thing at a time to see if that change worked for you, if you change more than one then you will not know what did it........

Okay, everything is set up exactly as you said. Also I disconnected my SATA drive and used the IDE drive for the installation disc. The installer got past the BSOD this time, but now I'm still getting an error that said Windows could not detect a hard drive.

 

[jaggerwild]

OK,
SO now change one of the 4 settings, like sata/IDE opposite of what you tried then go again. Were getting there all be it slowly but..........
Good day all!

 

[EateryOfPiza]

Originally posted by: jaggerwild
OK,
SO now change one of the 4 settings, like sata/IDE opposite of what you tried then go again. Were getting there all be it slowly but..........
Good day all!

Could you clarify what you meant by this? I couldn't really understand what you said.

Also, I've tried different hard drives, one stick of RAM (both are good and Memtested). Im fairly sure its not a hardware issue.

LATER EDIT: On a whim, I decided to try to select RAID and install from there. I did not complete the install tonight as I am going to bed, but I was able to get past the hard drive detection screen and got past the license agreement. Hopefully, Once I install Windows with these drivers, I can switch them to AHCI. If I install with RAID now, does that require that I set up a RAID array on my drives connected to the SATA ports?

 

[jaggerwild]

Originally posted by: jaggerwild

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.

Good evening Mr. Pizza!

OK,
You do not need the raid settings in bios, sorry that was if you were trying to go raid. Try these settings in Bios:Sata raid/AHCI mode(AHCI),SATA port0-3Native mode(Native),Onboard SATA/IDE device(these are for the Gigabyte or purple ports)I would try IDE first,Onboard SATA/IDE controler(AHCI).
Good luck very sorry for the confusion we will get you going here!
When you do change stuff in bios only change one thing at a time to see if that change worked for you, if you change more than one then you will not know what did it........

Hey EP,
These are the four settings I was referring to........Memory you should be OK then. Yer right not a hardware issue just software here.If you set it up in raid not sure you can revert back without losing the set up or install. Get some sleep man, I appreciate that your so patient as I know I would be pulling out what little hair I still have left.
Good night all!:thumbsup:

 

[Blazer7]

Hello Mr EateryOfPiza,

I believe that everything you need to know is here : Wikipedia Advanced Host Controller Interface

Here are some interesting excerpts

Intel recommends choosing RAID mode on their motherboards (which also enables AHCI) rather than the plain AHCI/SATA mode for maximum flexibility, due to the issues caused when the mode is switched once an operating system has already been installed.

Enabling AHCI in a system BIOS will cause a 0x7B Blue Screen of Death STOP error (INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE) on installations of Windows XP where AHCI/RAID drivers for that system's chipset are not installed. Switching to AHCI mode requires installing new drivers before changing the BIOS settings.

When attempting to install Microsoft Windows XP or a previous version on an AHCI-enabled system will cause the setup to fail with the error message "set up could not detect hard disk drive...". This problem can only be corrected by either using a floppy disk with the appropriate drivers, by slipstreaming the appropriate drivers into the Windows XP installation CD or by turning on IDE emulation in the BIOS settings if available (usually called as COMPATABILITY or ACPI).

For Intel chipsets (for example, Intel ICH9) drivers are available from either an OEM board or computer manufacturer. For the Intel versions, the driver must be loaded before loading the OS (by pressing F6 as setup starts).The Intel drivers will work for both XP and Vista. Also, in the case of ICH9, an unsupported method to enable AHCI on ICH9 is available.

HTH


Best Regards

Blazer

 

[jaggerwild]

Well,
I talked to Leo at gigabyte RMA seems they can not warranty the board as they now think it was MY HIGH overlocking that gimped the board. NP if its my fault then NP. I got home take out my Quad put in an E8400(NO OVER CLOCK) load vista 64 bit, no internet so I go to remove the awesome realtech drivers for the even more awesome Ethernet teaming and I get blue sod after blue sod SWEET!

So I now have an over priced Ethernet teaming paper weight that I spent at least a thousand dollars on.Very happy to say the least...........
Whats the saying "fool me once shame on me fool me twice shame on you"
Regards all!

 

[Blazer7]

Hello Mr jaggerwild,

I'm very sorry to hear that your new mobo is dead but I really think that you shouldn?t be blaming GB for this. Everybody knows that ocing is a dangerous business and judging by your sig you may have gone too far this time. I hope that you get better luck with your next pick.

 

[jaggerwild]

WOW,
I'm glade you feel better! It's a gimped CPU, new cpu in. higher over clock(500FSB) Guess I don't know what I'm doing


E8400@4.5Ghz

I bought the 680 to over clock and I built this to over clock.... not to google stuff on. Funny how as soon as "you over clock it" yer screwed!

 

[Blazer7]

Hey, I didn't say that. And I'm really sorry that your board died (if that's the case). But you're an overclocker. You know better than most the risks involved and you've oced that cpu beyond 4GHz. That's way beyond the manufacturers specs, water or no water. If the board died on you tough luck but do you honestly believe that GB is to blame?

 

[Toti]

Hi
Well i got my rig running and its looking good (finger crossed
E6600@400x8=3.2Ghz
and I got a new mem the other ones was not working good.
So I have now OCZ Reaper 1066 4 gigs
Maybe i can clock it more but i will see how this goes.

 

[EateryOfPiza]

Originally posted by: Blazer7

For Intel chipsets (for example, Intel ICH9) drivers are available from either an OEM board or computer manufacturer. For the Intel versions, the driver must be loaded before loading the OS (by pressing F6 as setup starts).The Intel drivers will work for both XP and Vista. Also, in the case of ICH9, an unsupported method to enable AHCI on ICH9 is available.

Our x48 boards use ICH9R, not ICH9.

Anyways an update, I was able to get XP to install with the controller set to RAID/AHCI and then using the F6 method. However, when I changed RAID/AHCI to AHCI, I will get a blue screen. It seems that RAID and AHCI drivers are separate.

I'm going to try extracting the AHCI drivers out of the executable and installing the manually or slipstream them into an XP CD.

Also, RAID/AHCI mode is not the same as AHCI mode. I cannot hotplug under RAID/AHCI mode. XP is throwing all sorts of fits when I do.

 

[Blazer7]

Originally posted by: EateryOfPiza

Originally posted by: Blazer7

For Intel chipsets (for example, Intel ICH9) drivers are available from either an OEM board or computer manufacturer. For the Intel versions, the driver must be loaded before loading the OS (by pressing F6 as setup starts).The Intel drivers will work for both XP and Vista. Also, in the case of ICH9, an unsupported method to enable AHCI on ICH9 is available.

Our x48 boards use ICH9R, not ICH9.

Hello Mr EateryOfPiza,

The ICH9R is basically the ICH9 plus RAID. This is what the ?R? stands for.

 

[EateryOfPiza]

Okay, Now I feel stupid. Turns out the problem was that I never installed the SATA AHCI drivers. Here's why: When you press F6 to load third party drivers, the Windows installer gives you a selection box that has only four selections in it, and no scroll bar indicator to indicate that you might have more than four drivers. I just assumed that there was only four drivers! Also the list starts at the bottom, so if you keep pressing down, like most people intuitively do, nothing will change, which leads to the impression that there are only four drivers! I had to scroll UP to find the SATA AHCI drivers. LOL

EDIT: It seems hotplugging doesn't work. I have all the drivers installed and everything. This doesn't make any sense.

 

[jaggerwild]

Originally posted by: Blazer7
Hey, I didn't say that. And I'm really sorry that your board died (if that's the case). But you're an overclocker. You know better than most the risks involved and you've oced that cpu beyond 4GHz. That's way beyond the manufacturers specs, water or no water. If the board died on you tough luck but do you honestly believe that GB is to blame?

If the board has issues regardless of if I'm over clocking or not they should stand behind it PERIOD witch they do not........ I'm not blaming them nor am I here to prove myself to anybody. As this is the net, but the simple fact that once he knew the board was over clocked then he blamed it is the issue I have!

Cause if they have such great customer service (and they don't as seen in the 680 thread) then, I have to wonder why do they sponsor over clocking contests then? Or even make all these applications for the board witch are on the MB disk too, that are made to over clock it with? Mr. Blazer, it is plain that I could show you proven problems that I know of. And you will still be here blaming my over clock till they give you a 780 board(I read people like others read books, only I see between the lines). Good luck with that board .

Also a note for Gigabyte: in your bios when hitting optimized defaults, the CPU voltage stays at what eva it was set to before. It will not revert to defaults on its own, or this could be my fault again from clocking the snot out of it .

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