Recent content by scottsh

I can't say that this is a mobo issue or not, but you might try DU-Meter and see what the xfer rates are between the system and the internet. You can see a request for a page go out (usually when you hit Refresh) and then see how long it takes to respond. If you see the request immediately and...

I think a major challenge here is all the different setting and options available. Some ease-of-use enhancements to the BIOS would be nice (a SATA-x option in the boot order options would be a great start.) Seems to me they just keep adding on more and more to existing BIOS rather than start...

Do you have any other IDE devices - like hard drives or CDROM drives? They might be the problem - try disabling the IDE controllers in the BIOS and see how that impacts it.

More data - Gigabyte sent me bios F7a and unfortunately that did not fix the problem. Also, I had massive problems when I set my SATA drive as secondary IDE (my regular IDE hard disks are on primary) and then setting the boot order to HDD-2 (which would indicate my SATA drive as secondary...

I also tried an MSI Neo2 FIS2R and it had no problems booting from SATA with IDE drives and my SCSI drive in the system. I sent the issue in to Gigabyte - hopefully they'll understand that it is a bug and get us a fix. The fact that the 8IK1100 hasn't had a BIOS update since April would seem...

I'm having no luck getting my new 8IK1100 to boot from my SATA (non-raid) if I have any other HD in the system. I also can't seem to find a way to set that the SATA should be the boot ctrl in the BIOS. Any ideas? If I have my 2 IDE disks in system (both on my primary IDE, with my 2 CDROMs on...