First of all, Gigabyte tech support was very helpful and knowledgeable. It actually sounded like I had someone on the phone that knew more than me.
This is kinda a like "duh" problem. But to be honest, everyone here was very misleading in the "SP2 upgraded CD's detect the raid controllers."
As I was informed they don't. Windows will SEE the drive, but you will have problems on rebooting, cold boots, detecting HD's again. (on both the SiL controller and Nforce4).
What you have to do is put in the CD with all the drivers on it and go to the folder "BootDrv" on the root of the CD. In there you must execute the program "Menu.exe".
You need two blank floppies and option G is the SiL controller (RED SATA connection on mobo) drivers, and option E is the nForce 4 XP (YELLOW/ORANGE SATA connections) drivers.
Once you have these floppies, go ahead and make sure IDE/RAID is off (unless you are using it), and RAID5 function is off in the bios.
Now you just install windows, load the drivers, for nForce4 controller it will list two. YOU NEED BOTH! hit S to specify again and load the second. If you have hard drives on both controllers throw the other floppy in and load those drivers.
All problems fixed, installs fine, cold boots/warmboots/restarts/hybernates/hotswaps perfectly!
This is kinda a like "duh" problem. But to be honest, everyone here was very misleading in the "SP2 upgraded CD's detect the raid controllers."
As I was informed they don't. Windows will SEE the drive, but you will have problems on rebooting, cold boots, detecting HD's again. (on both the SiL controller and Nforce4).
What you have to do is put in the CD with all the drivers on it and go to the folder "BootDrv" on the root of the CD. In there you must execute the program "Menu.exe".
You need two blank floppies and option G is the SiL controller (RED SATA connection on mobo) drivers, and option E is the nForce 4 XP (YELLOW/ORANGE SATA connections) drivers.
Once you have these floppies, go ahead and make sure IDE/RAID is off (unless you are using it), and RAID5 function is off in the bios.
Now you just install windows, load the drivers, for nForce4 controller it will list two. YOU NEED BOTH! hit S to specify again and load the second. If you have hard drives on both controllers throw the other floppy in and load those drivers.
All problems fixed, installs fine, cold boots/warmboots/restarts/hybernates/hotswaps perfectly!
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