cross_marian
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Hi how do u make SATA Drives work in GA-P965-DS3, do I need to change settings from the bios?.
How to install SATA in GA-P965-DS3?
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Once any new drive is installed you would first see if it is detected by the bios for making sure it's connected properly and a good working drive. The boot drive whether ide or sata will be seen at the top of the list when bringing up the drive list once highlighting the "hard drives" item seen in the boot order section.
If you are simply adding a second storage drive in you simply make sure the first OS host//boot drive remains on the top as the default drive. For seeing an upgrade from a smaller sata model with ide drives present and boot files and information on the first sata not an ide drive you would unplug any ide drveis first before installing any version of Windows like XP or Vista.
That will see the boot files as well as mbr entries placed on the new sata drive where later the ide drive(s) can be plugged back in. For the bios settings and general installation instructions refer to the board's user manual or support site for the download found there.
If you are simply adding a second storage drive in you simply make sure the first OS host//boot drive remains on the top as the default drive. For seeing an upgrade from a smaller sata model with ide drives present and boot files and information on the first sata not an ide drive you would unplug any ide drveis first before installing any version of Windows like XP or Vista.
That will see the boot files as well as mbr entries placed on the new sata drive where later the ide drive(s) can be plugged back in. For the bios settings and general installation instructions refer to the board's user manual or support site for the download found there.
That should be a sata ready board anyways seeing only one ide channel and 6 sata ports like the AM2 model used here. The section on installing hard drives in the user manual will show if there is any other bios settings required.
The oversll board specifications as well as the links for driver support, faqs, and donwloadable user manual are seen at http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...rboard&ProductID=2314&ProductName=GA-965P-DS3
If you are not creating an array the RAID/IDE setting is left at IDE according the information seen on page #65 in the manual. For an array you would have to see the onboard raid controller enabled and load the driver for that controller.
It depends mainly on what you have planned for any sata drives installed. If you going to use two with one for the OS and the other as a storage drive simply leaving that at the default disabled setting will allow the XP installer to detect the drives unless there's a need for driver disk.
On one older 939 board it required a driver floppy for XP while on another model by the same manufacturer you pressed the "S" key for special devices to simply select the closest chipset that matched what was on the board. Those boards saw two ide channels there being more ide native.
The oversll board specifications as well as the links for driver support, faqs, and donwloadable user manual are seen at http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products...rboard&ProductID=2314&ProductName=GA-965P-DS3
If you are not creating an array the RAID/IDE setting is left at IDE according the information seen on page #65 in the manual. For an array you would have to see the onboard raid controller enabled and load the driver for that controller.
It depends mainly on what you have planned for any sata drives installed. If you going to use two with one for the OS and the other as a storage drive simply leaving that at the default disabled setting will allow the XP installer to detect the drives unless there's a need for driver disk.
On one older 939 board it required a driver floppy for XP while on another model by the same manufacturer you pressed the "S" key for special devices to simply select the closest chipset that matched what was on the board. Those boards saw two ide channels there being more ide native.