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| 534765 | 2007-03-21 04:55:00 | Hi I just bought a computer with a Gigabyte 965P-DS3P board. I installed my old ide 40G HD with the DVD writer but it didn't show up in the BIOS. I think that's because I set it to master but used the middle plug on the ribbon cable. I will change it to slave tonight. With the SATA drive which is 340G, Windows XP only sees and formatted about 160G. Also I'm not sure what to set it on in the BIOS: RAID, AHCI, or DISABLE which is IDE mode. Would any know? Thanks, |
asdex (1488) | ||
| 534766 | 2007-03-21 05:07:00 | Dont put the dvd writer on the same IDE connection as the hdd. If this is what u did. Put the burner on secondary IDE as Master. If you've only got one IDE device on the Primary IDE (the hdd). I would put a 80 wire IDE cable on the burner if u have one (the mobo end has a blue connector). It wont be RAID you need 2 SATA's. (Maybe unless the mobo supports IDE and SATA RAID). Try AHCI. Install SP1 or 2 after. What did u format the hdd in?? FAT32 or NTFS?? |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 534767 | 2007-03-21 05:25:00 | There is only one IDE connection on the MB. All the rest are SATA. I formatted it in NTFS. I guess then that SP1 and 2 has a fix for big hard drives. I have deleted Win XP and installed Mandriva which is working fine other that the small HD size. I have downloaded a boot CD of tools and will look at the HD with Fdisk. The BIOS reports the HD as 320GB ok. Cheers, |
asdex (1488) | ||
| 534768 | 2007-03-21 05:27:00 | I would say SP1 or 2 would fix it. Altho I would install SP2 as SP1 is no longer supported. And most updates now require SP2. I would still put the burner on secondary IDE. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 534769 | 2007-03-21 06:06:00 | Speedy the DS3 only has one IDE port, as with most P965 boards. Intel in their ultimate wisdom remove IDE support from the chipset, so the majority of motherboard manufacturers have used the JBMicron chipset which only provides one channel. Correct the jumper settings for the IDE drivers that probably half your problem. The JBMicron controller is known to be fickle ***** and there might not be anything you can do about it. Are you confident flashing a BIOS? All early P965 boards that used the JBMicron controller had numerous IDE problems that were fixed with a BIOS flash. Chances are that the 320Gb drive only showing up as 160Gb was a user error. Just use the optimized settings in the BIOS and try reinstalling Windows. How did you format the drive? Third party software? or the Windows formatting tool? Even the original pre-SP1 version of XP has no problems supporting large hard drives so its not Windows thats at fault. |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 534770 | 2007-03-21 06:17:00 | Yup, I just found that out. I wouldnt bother with the IDE hdd then. Its got enough SATA ports (8)! |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 534771 | 2007-03-21 21:00:00 | Thanks, I got the whole drive partitioned ok with Super Fdisk. This boots up from a CD but you need a PCI mouse. I will bye another SATA HD I think as it seems the best solution. Keep just the DVD writer on the IDE channel. Mandrive is running well so I will put XP on the other drive for Windows stuff but hope to phase it out eventually. Thanks, |
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