Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 Rev. 1.0 SATA problem

Did that already. Set boot order to SATA as well. Still get the "no
device connected" error.
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Here's what I got from Gigabyte tech support. I gave up and bought an
add in card and everything is working fine. I'll probably be upgrading
board and processor soon and I guess it's back to Asus or Abit for me.


Answer - 346010
Answer : Hi

It should be auto detect, please check the drive and sata cable by
swapping them out to further troubleshoot the issue.

Thank you

Question - 346010
>From : Burke Madding [ bcmadding DeleteThis @sbcglobal.net ]
Sent : 2006/4/11 21:36
Question : You seem to have misunderstood my question. Let me clarify.
When I boot up it shows "no device connected" on the Sil bios screen.
Gigabyte bios is set correctly with Onboard H/W Serial ATA enabled and
mode is set to Base. However it simply won't recognize the drive as
connected on either port. Furthermore the drive has been tested on an
add in card and works fine. So I'm wondering if there is something else
that could be causing the drive to not be detected? I have tried
multiple cables and power sources. Is it possible that both ports on
the board are bad?
Answer - 345191
Answer : Dear customer,

If you want the SATA HDDs as the boot drive, it"s recommended that you
install them on SATA0_Sil and SATA1_Sil.

If you have only one SATA HDD or two SATA HDDs need to work
independently, it will need to set it to "BASE" configuration.

In the BIOS - Make sure the "Onboard H/W Serial ATA " is enable and set
the "Serial ATA Function" to "BASE"under the "Integrated Peripheral".

You need to prepare the RAID driver on the floppy disk.
1) Browse the M/B utility CD.
2) Open the "bootdrv" folder.
3) Double click "Menu".
4) Type the number for the needed driver (Sil). It will copy the driver
to the floppy disk automatically.

When you boot from the CD and the Windows setup screen comes up, press
"F6" to install the 3rd party driver and follow the instruction to
install the OS.

Thank you
Question - 345191
>From : Burke Madding [ bcmadding DeleteThis @sbcglobal.net ]
Sent : 2006/4/9 06:00
Question : I am trying to install a Serial ATA drive in Base mode.
This will replace my current setup of 2 drives in a Raid 0 mode on
PATA. When booting up however I get a 'drives not found' error on the
Sil bootup screen and Windows cannot find the drive either when booting
in my previous raid setup. What can I do?
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