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Posted by John on May 23, 2008, 4:12 am
Please log in for more thread options My motherboard is a Gigabyte 915P MB -GA-8195P Duo (Pro), new about 2 ½ years ago - which initially had 2 Hitachi 160 GB SATA HDs set up in a Raid O array. These occupy two of the four SATA slots on the MB. It also had an IDE DVD RW originally and I later added a SATA Pioneer DVD RW in one of the spare slots. This was recognised by windows and worked immediately. I've now acquired a Western Digital 400GB SATA drive to occupy the last remaining SATA slot. WD's web site indicated that a jumper was required to cause this second generation SATA drive to revert to a 150MB's transfer rate which is the speed quoted in the Gigabyte MB user guide. It reads: "S_ATA0/S_ATA1/S_ATA2/S_ATA3 (Serial ATA Connector) Serial ATA can provide 150MB'stransfer rate. Please refer to the BIOS settings for the Serial ATA and install the proper driver in order to work properly" ( I don't understand the reference to installing a driver). The problem. The WD HD shows up during POST and in CMOS but Windows will not boot. Instead the following message appears: "Boot from CD Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter." I've been into BIOS to try and fix things. In Bios, the standard CMOS features show the following: "IDE Channel 0 Master HL-DTST DVD RAM GSH (The IDE DVD RW?) IDE Channel 0 Slave None IDE Channel 2 Master S_ATA1_ Raid drive IDE Channel 2 Slave S_ATA2_ (the Western's id) IDE Channel 3 Master S_ATA3_ Raid drive IDE Channel 3 Slave S_ATA4_ (the Pioneer's id)" In the Advanced BIOS features the boot priority is: "Hard drive CD Rom Floppy." On entering the Hard Drive Boot Priority, I found at first that the WD HD appeared before Intel Raid - Volume 0 (assumed to be the Hitachi RAID drives. I changed the order and rebooted, hoping that I had solved the problem. But the same "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter." Message appears. What have I missed? The MB user guide reference to "Please refer to the BIOS settings for the Serial ATA and install the proper driver in order to work properly" confuses me. What drivers? Can anyone help me out with this and tell me what to do to get this new HD up and running? TIA John | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by lkboop on May 23, 2008, 6:53 am
Please log in for more thread options with the CD that originally came with the motherboard. From these you can create a floppy to install them on the hard drive so Windows will load. Previously you justed used the the drives for data storage and the additional drivers were not required. If you are going to boot from a SATA drive windows requires the additional drivers. You should also be able to get the drivers from the Gigabyte web site. Also your boot order is exactly opposite of what is need to boot the system when you do obtain the RAID drivers and create the your floppy I.E. it needs to look for the floppy first then a cd and then the hard drive, if the floppy and/or CD are not present your system just skips over them and on to the next boot device. | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by John on May 23, 2008, 10:04 am
Please log in for more thread options Hi Ikboop,
I made that floppy from the Gigabyte CD when the PC first arrived in 2005 and used it to set up the RAID array for the 2 SATA Hitachi drives. WinXP and a bunch of apps have been running on it ever since. I want to use the new Western HD as an additional drive just for backups. Do I have to go through the RAID process again even though the new drive won't be any part of the existing RAID set up, albeit it is a SATA drive like the other two? regards, John | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Andy on May 24, 2008, 2:16 am
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>I'm having mega headaches trying to install a SATA HD and get it running.
> >My motherboard is a Gigabyte 915P MB -GA-8195P Duo (Pro), new about 2 ½ >years ago - which initially had 2 Hitachi 160 GB SATA HDs set up in a Raid O >array. These occupy two of the four SATA slots on the MB. > >It also had an IDE DVD RW originally and I later added a SATA Pioneer DVD RW >in one of the spare slots. This was recognised by windows and worked >immediately. > >I've now acquired a Western Digital 400GB SATA drive to occupy the last >remaining SATA slot. > >WD's web site indicated that a jumper was required to cause this second >generation SATA drive to revert to a 150MB's transfer rate which is the >speed quoted in the Gigabyte MB user guide. It reads: > >"S_ATA0/S_ATA1/S_ATA2/S_ATA3 (Serial ATA Connector) > >Serial ATA can provide 150MB'stransfer rate. Please refer to the BIOS >settings for the Serial ATA and install the proper driver in order to work >properly" ( I don't understand the reference to installing a >driver). > >The problem. > >The WD HD shows up during POST and in CMOS but Windows will not boot. >Instead the following message appears: > >"Boot from CD If the boot sequence starts with Hard Drive, you should not be seeing Boot from CD. >
>Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter." > >I've been into BIOS to try and fix things. In Bios, the standard CMOS >features show the following: > >"IDE Channel 0 Master HL-DTST DVD RAM GSH (The IDE DVD >RW?) > >IDE Channel 0 Slave None > >IDE Channel 2 Master S_ATA1_ Raid drive > >IDE Channel 2 Slave S_ATA2_ (the Western's id) > >IDE Channel 3 Master S_ATA3_ Raid drive > >IDE Channel 3 Slave S_ATA4_ (the Pioneer's id)" > I don't know whether it would have made any difference, but I would have connected the raid drives to SATA connector 0 and 2, a "master/slave" pair. >In the Advanced BIOS features the boot priority is:
> >"Hard drive > >CD Rom > >Floppy." What happens if you disable the second and third boot device? >
>On entering the Hard Drive Boot Priority, I found at first that the WD HD >appeared before Intel Raid - Volume 0 (assumed to be the Hitachi RAID >drives. I changed the order and rebooted, hoping that I had solved the >problem. But the same "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press >enter." Message appears. > >What have I missed? The MB user guide reference to "Please refer to the >BIOS settings for the Serial ATA and install the proper driver in order to >work properly" confuses me. What drivers? > >Can anyone help me out with this and tell me what to do to get this new HD >up and running? > > > >TIA > >John > | ||||||||||||||||
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>
> My motherboard is a Gigabyte 915P MB -GA-8195P Duo (Pro), new about 2 ½
> years ago - which initially had 2 Hitachi 160 GB SATA HDs set up in a Raid O
> array. These occupy two of the four SATA slots on the MB.
>
> It also had an IDE DVD RW originally and I later added a SATA Pioneer DVD RW
> in one of the spare slots. This was recognised by windows and worked
> immediately.
>
> I've now acquired a Western Digital 400GB SATA drive to occupy the last
> remaining SATA slot.
>
> WD's web site indicated that a jumper was required to cause this second
> generation SATA drive to revert to a 150MB's transfer rate which is the
> speed quoted in the Gigabyte MB user guide. It reads:
>
> "S_ATA0/S_ATA1/S_ATA2/S_ATA3 (Serial ATA Connector)
>
> Serial ATA can provide 150MB'stransfer rate. Please refer to the BIOS
> settings for the Serial ATA and install the proper driver in order to work
> properly" ( I don't understand the reference to installing a
> driver).
>
> The problem.
>
> The WD HD shows up during POST and in CMOS but Windows will not boot.
> Instead the following message appears:
>
> "Boot from CD
>
> Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press enter."
>
> I've been into BIOS to try and fix things. In Bios, the standard CMOS
> features show the following:
>
> "IDE Channel 0 Master HL-DTST DVD RAM GSH (The IDE DVD
> RW?)
>
> IDE Channel 0 Slave None
>
> IDE Channel 2 Master S_ATA1_ Raid drive
>
> IDE Channel 2 Slave S_ATA2_ (the Western's id)
>
> IDE Channel 3 Master S_ATA3_ Raid drive
>
> IDE Channel 3 Slave S_ATA4_ (the Pioneer's id)"
>
> In the Advanced BIOS features the boot priority is:
>
> "Hard drive
>
> CD Rom
>
> Floppy."
>
> On entering the Hard Drive Boot Priority, I found at first that the WD HD
> appeared before Intel Raid - Volume 0 (assumed to be the Hitachi RAID
> drives. I changed the order and rebooted, hoping that I had solved the
> problem. But the same "Disk boot failure. Insert system disk and press
> enter." Message appears.
>
> What have I missed? The MB user guide reference to "Please refer to the
> BIOS settings for the Serial ATA and install the proper driver in order to
> work properly" confuses me. What drivers?
>
> Can anyone help me out with this and tell me what to do to get this new HD
> up and running?
>
>
>
> TIA
>
> John
>
>