Urgent help needed installing Vista on Gigabyte UD3P

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Just bought my 1st Gigabyte motherboard (always been an Asus man) wish I hadnt now :(

The problem im having is the bios is seeing my boot drive as an SCSI HDD and when I try and install Vista to it, it warns me that it may not be a suitable boot disk. It installs so far but when it get to a stage where it needs to reboot it comes up BOOTMGR is missing.

The drive is an old raptor but done the same when i tried another HDD. Im also trying to install a Raid5 array at the same time so have to set the bios to raid and install raid drivers with the OS.

Am I missing a setting in the Bios? Its driving me mad!!!!
 
Sorry mate, just to confirm, you want the Raptor for windows boot & use the RAID for storage!
 
Cob said:
Have you got the Raptor connected to the Intel SATA ports?
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Yup! all 6 are being used. 1 x raptor boot disk. 4 x Samsung f1's storage and 1 x optical drive

Solved the BOOTMGR problem. When I flashed the bios it altered the USB Keyboard setting to OFF.
 
So it's all fine now?


Tbh you shouldn't be installing Windows with a bunch of other hard drives connected anyway. Install it to the Raptor with RAID enabled, then reconnect all the other drives once the install has finished.
 
No, Its still seeing the drives as SCSI so i cant install vista to it and add the others later. Im getting so angry now, the pc is going to flying through the window in a minute.
 
Have you tried it without the RAID disks connected?


Ofcourse you'll still need to set the BIOS to RAID and load the Intel RAID drivers (tho Vista has an old set of Intel RAID drivers built in).
 
Cob said:
Have you tried it without the RAID disks connected?


Ofcourse you'll still need to set the BIOS to RAID and load the Intel RAID drivers (tho Vista has an old set of Intel RAID drivers built in).
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Just tried this. Set Bios to Raid, started vista install. Formatted drive, installed raid driver. It starts to install until it reboots and then just gets into a loop of either press any button to install vista or a screen saying start windows from last working config etc even though it never installed in the 1st place. This is ******* me off to the extreme now. With last night and this morning, ive spent 9hrs trying to install an OS that would normally take me half an hour on an Asus board.
 
Cob said:
Have you updated the BIOS yet?

And have you used the Vista DVD before?
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Yes and yes. I have to reflash the bios every time the pc restarts or it see's the HDD as an SCSI drive again. Im using the F7 Bios which I believe is the newest other than a beta version. You can see my frustration! I think im going to put my old Asus board back in soon and send the UD3P back (could be tricky as it was an auction purchase, although advertised as new) im really getting nowhere fast and my blood pressure is through the roof. thanks for trying to help though. Any other suggestions welcomed.
 
Ive now swapped out the raptor for an old 500gb seagate, replaced the optical drive for a spare and a different windows disc. Ive now managed to get it to install. Vista has reported a compatibilty problem with my chipset and the Intel ICH10 SMBus Controller. Maybe this is where all my problems have stemmed from. The link they have provided is for an older driver. Surely it should be a newer revised one! Why on earth has Gigabyte supplied a disc with incompatible drivers for its own board. Seems like madness to me.
 
Still not happy I cant use my raptor :( im pretty sure there is nothing wrong with it. No way am I going through that again though!
 
Still having problems with this board guys. I cant seem to overclock it at all. Literally. Anything other than default settings causes the dual bios chip to do it's thing and set it back to stock. I had a q9650 with a 1.2500 vid in an Asus P5Q deluxe clocked at 4GHZ 48hrs prime stable with minimal effort and now I cant get the same chip (albeit a 1.2250 Vid) to do anything other than stock with the UD3P.

Not happy at all :(

Any thoughts ?
 
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Tweaktown.com forums is the best place to ask for advice with Gigabyte boards.

Try using easytune to overclock, take a note of the settings easytune uses, then go into bios and set manualy, making a few minor adjustments of your own.

Easytune will set your voltages too high so you can reduce these, and adjust your memory as you require.

Got my [email protected] for 24/7 use this way, but the bios settings take some getting used to.
 
moremoney said:
Tweaktown.com forums is the best place to ask for advice with Gigabyte boards.

Try using easytune to overclock, take a note of the settings easytune uses, then go into bios and set manualy, making a few minor adjustments of your own.

Easytune will set your voltages too high so you can reduce these, and adjust your memory as you require.

Got my [email protected] for 24/7 use this way, but the bios settings take some getting used to.
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I tried using easytune but pc just freezes up no matter what i do.

The pc just froze and the screen went pixelated and rebooted 10 mins ago. I was only surfing with everything set at stock in the bios. Something is seriously screwed :(
 
Looks like the CPU I bought second hand last week was fried. B*stard!!. Swapped it over for another one I had and the board has started to OC nicely now. Think I have a duff stick of ram as well though. May have to RMA it back to OverClockers. With 2x2GB sticks of ram in it fails instantly with Intel Burn Test. Tried with 1 stick, still failed instantly. Popped the other stick in and all is well. stuck the 1st one back in to double check and failed again. Curously I ran Memtest for 12HRS straight (22 passes) with both the same sticks in my Asus P5Q Deluxe last week with no errors ?
 
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