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SATA Problem w/ Via Chipset
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Posted by: rexoverbey
I haven't been here for a while but thought maybe someone here has had this problem before. I'm having problem installing a Windows XP on a Western Digital Raptor drive on a Gigabyte K8T800 mobo. It is the only drive I have installed in the computer so I need to install Windows on this drive. I made a driver floppy with the VT8237 drivers and clicked "F6" when it asked for additional drivers to load. It loaded the drivers and formated the drive with NTFS and installed the initial files. Then when XP reboots it as if it doesn't find the drive. The BIOS seems to recognize the drive on POST. My onlly other option is to install XP on an IDE drive and try to load the VIA VT8237 drivers within windows. I can't find much help on this subject on google either.
Any help would be great thanks.
Posted by: redwench
did you enable boot from hard drive in the bios? and remove the floppy and cd, of course.
Posted by: rexoverbey
Well I tried installing the IDE driver and it didn't detect the hard drive. I changed IDE cables and tried a different molex conector. BIOS didn't detect the hard drive still. I felt to see if the hard drive was spinning and it was. I then connected it to IDE2 and it detected it. I guess I will have to return the motherboard since I can't get it to work with SATA and now IDE. Ughhhhh. This is the worst motherboard I have ever bought.
Posted by: zorg
my honest opinion is that gigabyte have gone to the dogs in the last few years.... nothing to do with the thread I know but just reitirating what you said :d
Posted by: Xboxguy
I'm having the same problem as you, but I'm not giving up on it, right now I have to totally rework my compy but if it works I'll tell you what I did to fix it. I have a K8v mobo and I just bought a K8V deluxe to see if that will work any better..
Anyways I'll let you know, just don't give up yet..
Posted by: redwench
if only one of his ide channels is working, its a bad motherboard. nothing he can do to get that working 
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