Serial ATA Problems

[chet]

I have a stumper for you.
I am trying to install XP Pro on a new systems. Inside
the box we have one of the new Athlon 64 cpus, 1gb of
memory, a geforce3 vid card, a 120gb serial ata seagate
hdd, a dvd-rom and a cd-burner. The otherboard is a
gigabyte board with the latest bios updates installed.
The problem I am having is I can not get the hard drive
to partition or format. When the computer first starts
sometime the motherboard will detect the hard drive other
times it will not. I called gigabyte and the said it was
a bad board so i got it replaced. New board same problem.
Called seagate they diagnosed a bad hard-drive, got it
replaced. The new hard drive has helped some. The MTR BRD
is now detecting the drive more frequently. ALthough
someimes it still has problems. When it does get detected
I try to install windows. I follow the istructions and
use the f6 key to specify my raid drivers. When setup
then goes to partition and format the drive it locks up.
I have tried eveything I can think of.

ANy ideas??

Chet

 

[Nick Burns]

On my system I had to enable SATA in the bios and set to jumpers on the
mother board.

 

[Guest]

The SATA is enabled in the bios with the same results

 

[Nick Burns]

Unhook you DVD and CD Rom and try.

 

[erich]

I have an almost identical problem. I have a gigabyte
motherboard with an Intel P4 2.8 GHz PC, 865 Chipset.
The drive is always detected but when I go to install
Windows XP Pro SP1a it asks which partition to put it
on. I say the first one and it says the partition is not
an XP recognizable partition, please delete and
reselect. I delete it, the tell XP to use the
unpartioned space. It partitions it and asks which
partition to use. I tell it to use the one it just
partitioned and it says it is not an XP recognizable
partion, and around we go.

The BIOS is set to map the SATA to IDE0.

Any ideas?

 

[Guest]

So after you unhook your DVD and CD ROM, what is
providing access to the XP Setup disk?