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Win7 + Old MB = SATA headache

paperfist

paperfist

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I have an old Gigabyte K8VM800M motherboard that required you to hit F6 under Windows XP to install 'additional drivers' during the setup process.

Now I have Windows 7 and want to install it on a system with this Gigabyte board. Trouble is I can't since Win 7 won't except any of the drivers I am trying to use.

Does anyone know of a work around for this?

What if I bought a SATA to IDE converter, would I be able to install 7 and then remove the computer and have it boot up?

The other thing I was thinking of was to use an old IDE drive, install Win 7 and then clone it to the SATA drive. Not sure if that will give me fits.
 
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Consider a SATA PCI card - it has its own controller. It can then do RAID or singles or eSATA.
 
paperfist said:
Thanks I'll give that a try.

I didn't know it only had RAID mode, I thought it could use a single SATA drive.

EDIT: Thanks again for the drivers, but no dice. Looks like I'm going to have to eat shipping and restocking and swap the SATA drive for a IDE.
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SATA is IDE. You need to set the "SATA Mode" from "RAID" to "IDE" in the bios.
 
SilentRunning said:
SATA is IDE. You need to set the "SATA Mode" from "RAID" to "IDE" in the bios.
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Maybe the drive is bad as it doesn't detect it in BIOS under IDE if that's the case. I was thinking it was like my old Abit board where SATA drives were detected and 'setup' using the RAID setup function. SATA mode is setup in BIOS for this board.
 
How large is the drive? With a BIOS from 2004/2005, drive capacities that weren't around five years ago may be a problem.
 
Up to 500GB shouldn't be a problem, but much beyond that, increases the risk of not being properly handled by an older BIOS.
 
Thanks for all the help everyone 🙂

The problem ended up being the the MB doesn't support 3.0/sec transfer speeds so I had to get a hold of one of those esoteric jumper blocks and set it down to 1.5/sec transfer speed and now it's back in business!
 
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