[zaone]

I have a core 2 duo e4300, abit IB9, Gforce 7300GT, 1GB DDR2 Geil at 800 mhz and a 250 wd caviar se sata2, now besides having huge issues with making the board "understand" my cpu for it`s real performance i have another big issue, when i try to install windows i get a blue crash screen, it seems that at the installation it does not recognize my hard drive,i`ve tried all sorts of drivers using F6 option on installation and the only ones that work are those for ata drives, and windows reads my hdd as an ATA one instead of SATA, when bios loads it only seaches for ide drives not SATA/RAID and i can`t find any options for SATA/RAID in bios config.Please help.

[Dave Hybrid]

SATA drives are auto detected by the BIOS so there won't be any settings.

When Windows install starts you need to hit a key fairly quickly to install SATA drivers, then insert a SATA driver disk when prompted.

To make a SATA driver disk boot from you motherboard disk and follow the instructions.

Alternatively have a look on the manufacturers website to find the SATA driver download.

[zaone]

I`ve done that and it doesn`t work, i`ve tried drivers from the cd that came with the motherboard and those on the site,nothing works...

[Dave Hybrid]

The only explanation can be that you are either doing it wrong or the SATA drive is faulty.

[zaone]

It`s not faulty,i have windows installed on it,but the only way i could install it was by using a ide ata driver from the motherboard cd so now windows recognizes it as an ata disk instead if sata.

[Dave Hybrid]

Try emailing the manufacturer as it may be a known fault with the motherboard.

[zaone]

Well i`ve been emailing with one of the technical consultants and he didn`t give me any good advice yet:|

[mcbee]

I read about the same problem and the reply was to install driver ITE8211F loaded onto floppy from the Abit CD. Flashing the BIOS to version 12 was also advised.

[zaone]

I have the latest bios on the site because at first it didn`t recognize my cpu,and those drivers are for ide not sata

[Dave Hybrid]

You are booting from the motherboard driver CD to make this SATA disk yes?

[zaone]

Actually no,the cd is bootble,it boots into dos and i have a few options there,i can make a floppy disk with drivers for my hdd in dos using the motherboard cd but those drivers are for ata hdd`s only and those are the ones i used to install windows on my sata hdd because neither the sata drivers on the abit site nor those on the intel site nor those on the motherboard cd worked.

[Dave Hybrid]

That's bizarre, I can't understand why it would make a ATA driver disk as drivers for ATA are not needed to install windows and are done automatically later on.

How random, anyway, as far as advice goes we have covered all the normal bases, SATA disks are made by booting from the mobo CD so only the manufacturer is going to be able to shed any more light on this I think.

I would be interested to know their response. :)

[zaone]

The guy from abit`s tech support has no idea either,i`m wondering if anyone from abit has any idea of what they`ve created or if they`re just guessing as they go..:|

[Dave Hybrid]

What happens when you use the SATA drivers on this page?

http://www2.abit.com.tw/page/uk/down...ET_TYPE=LGA775

[zaone]

it shows me the same drivers as the ITE8211F IDE driver, i really can`t figure why :|