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SATA trouble on my Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3

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Flune

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Hoping someone out there has done what I'm trying to do...

I have a new Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3 that has has SATA RAID (0,1,5,10) support. BIOS sees all of my drives and allows me to configure the drives any way I please (JBOD, RAID, etc) - but when I attempt to install XP, no joy - no drives are seen. I started trying to do RAID 5 with 5 WD 5000YS drives, using the SATA RAID driver on a floppy disk that the manual specifies - no joy. I tried other drivers... No joy. I can tell my SATA controller is working since the system DOES boot from the Windows XP CD (my DVD is SATA), as well as the BIOS and RAID BIOS seeing all the drives just dandy...

I took a step backward and tried just to do JBOD - no joy.

I took ANOTHER step backward and attempted to configure only a single drive - nope. I tried this with multiple drives / cables - nothing.

Am I missing something with this motherboard? My next step is to try a completely different make/model of HDD (I can borrow stuff from work to troubleshoot) and maybe a different XP CD (one never knows, right) - - but I've seen NO squawks about SATA trouble with this particular MB, so I think I must be doing something wrong...

Any help would be great!

thanks

 
Can you install the OS with the disk controller set to legacy (IDE) mode? Do you have any PATA DVD-ROM handy?

Also make sure you use the correct ports for RAID. If the board has 6 SATA ports from ICH9R, most boards let you use only the disk4/disk5 for optical drives. (disk0~disk3 are for HDDs)

When you attempt to install the OS, what error message are you getting?
 
good advice - thanks. I also got some good nuggets from Tom's hardware along the same lines (another was to remove all but 1GB of RAM when installing XP... that one makes less sense to me, but I'll try anything once!).

I think I can scare up an old PATA HDD and DVDR here and give your suggestion a try tonight.

And the error was some cryptic microsoft gibberish about "media failure, check for viruses" - I don't have the exact text in front of me. I'll give your suggestion a whirl

thanks
 
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