I just built a new computer and use WinXP Professional. I have two hard drives which are both SATA drives. The motherboard is by Gigabyte with an Intel i7 processor.
The problem is that I cannot get Windows to recognize the hard drives when the BIOS is set to AHCI for those drives. If I set the BIOS to run those drives in IDE mode, it works fine.
I tried hitting F6 during install, and I copied the SATA drivers provided by Gigabyte from a floppy. When the setup process got to the point it had to access the hard drives, it crashed. Nothing I could do would seem to get it to work. Then I decided I would install Windows with the drives as IDE drives and install the SATA drivers after. Still no luck. I have installed the drivers, and they are visible in Device Manager, but if I try to start WinXP with the drivers' BIOS set to AHCI, it crashes.
Any thoughts? I mean, the computer is actually running fine with the BIOS set to IDE, but I would prefer to have it running SATA as the drives are.
SMK
The problem is that I cannot get Windows to recognize the hard drives when the BIOS is set to AHCI for those drives. If I set the BIOS to run those drives in IDE mode, it works fine.
I tried hitting F6 during install, and I copied the SATA drivers provided by Gigabyte from a floppy. When the setup process got to the point it had to access the hard drives, it crashed. Nothing I could do would seem to get it to work. Then I decided I would install Windows with the drives as IDE drives and install the SATA drivers after. Still no luck. I have installed the drivers, and they are visible in Device Manager, but if I try to start WinXP with the drivers' BIOS set to AHCI, it crashes.
Any thoughts? I mean, the computer is actually running fine with the BIOS set to IDE, but I would prefer to have it running SATA as the drives are.
SMK
