Recent content by rlanthony

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    EX58-UD5, Core i7 920 AHCI and install issues

    I finally had some cycles to dedicate to this yesterday and this morning and *mostly* have it figured out. First, and possibly my biggest, problem was figuring out that the SATA0 port just doesn't want to work right. Slapped the drives in SATA1 and it took off from there. I pulled...
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    EX58-UD5, Core i7 920 AHCI and install issues

    I grabbed an old WD 80GB drive and started working on it this morning. Everything I would try would give me a "could not determine system partition" in Vista and "setup was unable to create new system partition" in Win7. I had the drive installed in SATA0 and out of pure frustration and...
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    EX58-UD5, Core i7 920 AHCI and install issues

    Anindrew, which drivers did you install at boot? I've tried the ICH10R drivers that came on the MB disk, the latest version downloaded off of GB's website and the ones from Intel's site as well (I think they called it the Intel Storage Matrix.) The only OS I got to install was Vista...
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    EX58-UD5, Core i7 920 AHCI and install issues

    First, the hardware: MB: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5 CPU: Core i7 920 Nehalem SDD: Intel X25-E SLC SATA 32GB RAM: 12GB (6x2GB) GeIL DDR3 1333 PSU: Fortron Everest 80Plus 700w GPU: eVGA GTX 295 Never in 20 years of building computers have I ever encountered problems as I have on this system...