Gigabyte DS3 getting sata to work

[PrinzEugen]

Hi I have the system in the sig below - as yet I haven't been able to get achi mode to work. I have a seagate barracuda 160gb hd which is sata. When I set it up I just booted it all up as IDE, installing windows. Subsequently I have installed the sata drivers off the gigabyte website through windows. But in the bios I can't enable the achi mode option so the hd is still working in ide mode.
When I switch it to achi in the bios, it then tries to detect the drives and fails to do so and lists it as a drive failure. The hd is plugged into one of the purple sata ports on the Gigabyte DS3 motherboard.
Probably I'm missing something very simple but I'd appreciate some advice.
I'm running the F6 bios. My floppy drive has refused to work since the new build (hence I didn't install the sata drives after pressing f6 through the bios but instead used the windows ones).

 

[Snapshot]

I've been looking at this in depth recently and have come to the conclusion that it's virtually impossible to change the mode of the JMicron controller once Windows is installed as there's no (clean) way of forcing Windows to detect the change. You could try turning off system restore, deleting all copies of jgogo.sys and jraid.sys, uninstalling the RAID controller in Device Manager then rebooting but make sure you have a backup of C: first. The only reliable way to set the JMicron's mode is to install the drivers using F6 when Windows is installed. I'm not impressed....

Jonathan

 

[PrinzEugen]

I've been looking at this in depth recently and have come to the conclusion that it's virtually impossible to change the mode of the JMicron controller once Windows is installed as there's no (clean) way of forcing Windows to detect the change. You could try turning off system restore, deleting all copies of jgogo.sys and jraid.sys, uninstalling the RAID controller in Device Manager then rebooting but make sure you have a backup of C: first. The only reliable way to set the JMicron's mode is to install the drivers using F6 when Windows is installed. I'm not impressed....

Jonathan

Thanks for the reply Jonathan. Yes I've been similarly flummoxed - I certainly don't want to do a full reinstall again, and I reckoned I had done everything possible to get it working. The fact that my floppy drive refuses to work with this motherboard doesn't help matters.