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Major Vista install problem on Asrock Dual939 SATAII Board

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Sandan

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I have the Asrock Dual939 SATAII board and trying to do a fresh install of Vista on an new Western Digital SATAII drive. I booted to the DVD and When I began installing Vista asked for drivers for the Drive. I found them on the Boards CD and properly installed them. (Jmicron 32bit for 200ok/XP) At that point the drive showed up and I formatted and partitioned it. Installed Vista on C drive which was identified as primary. The install process went straight through and near the end it needed to reboot. I took the CD out of the drive, made sure the drive was identified as 1st boot and fired it up. The Vista "bar" showed it was trying to load comes up but then within about 8 secs it reboots the system. It keeps doing that. I reinstalled Vista several times each with the same results. I think I have SATAII configured right in the Bios as non-raid and auto identified. Is there another setting I need to make sure is properly configured? Anyone know of newer SATAII drivers for this board? Any other thoughts?
 
"non-RAID" is a setting for the SATA1 controller, not the SATAII one. "IDE" is the setting you're looking for, and it should make the drive visible during Windows setup without need for installing additional drivers. As far as I can remember, I didn't even need to load drivers within setup or once Vista was installed; it installed drivers for the controller without intervention on my part.

It's possible that the XP drivers you installed don't quite work right in Vista, which could explain the rebooting. In fact, I think that happened to me too when I tried to install the JMicron XP drivers under Vista. After that, I just decided to use the default-installed one and not worry about it. 😛
 
Thanks for the reply synthdude....If I understand your meaning...I should format, reinstall, with SATAII set as IDE and Vista probably wouldn't prompt me for drivers...It would just install. Once that's done I wonder about installing the SATA II drivers when I get into Vista...Or do you think that it doesn't make a difference and the speed etc wouldn't be compromised set as IDE?
 
Originally posted by: Sandan
Thanks for the reply synthdude....If I understand your meaning...I should format, reinstall, with SATAII set as IDE and Vista probably wouldn't prompt me for drivers...It would just install. Once that's done I wonder about installing the SATA II drivers when I get into Vista...Or do you think that it doesn't make a difference and the speed etc wouldn't be compromised set as IDE?
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To be honest I can't remember for sure whether I installed in IDE mode or not. I'd just try it in SATA mode and I believe it will work (since it's able to find and install a driver by itself anyway).
 
I have my OS installed on a Seagate SATA on the SATA II connector on that same motherboard.
In the BIOS, I have SATA II operation mode set to IDE.
I have never had to install drivers for SATA, neither for XP nor for Vista.
 
Well as an update I got Vista installed. I went to the bios and changed SATAII operation mode to IDE. After that everything was smooth. My only concern is if this will slow the SATAII drive down. I bought it because of the potential of it being faster than IDE. Anyone have a thought about this. Thanks.
 
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