Problem with Gigabyte GA-G31M-ES2L.

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I posted in here as I think that it's most likely a motherboard setting problem.

Just been trying to install Windows 7 and every time it gets to the part where I need to select the harddrive that I want it to install to, it just doesn't show anything. I've loaded a load of drivers from the Gigabyte website onto a USB and have no idea what driver I need to select to make it show my harddrive (I know this sounds nooby, as I shouldn't need to do it at all). But when I do select a driver is just says something about them not being from a supported manufacture and won't allow me to install them.

I've tried all of the different settings for the options that people have mentioned to try and none of them allow me to see my harddrive in the installer.

Can't figure it out, one SATA Hdd, one PATA DVD drive.
 
May sound silly but have you tried install windows 7 with just one disk installed. If the sata is your primary drive for OS then try changing the port?

Also are your drives recognised in the bios before installing windows 7?
 
A quick way to sort the whole thing is to reset your bios to fail safe or default settings.

Once you have done that reboot and go back into the bios and then set boot priority and boot devices.

Should be sorted then.
 
Thanks for the replies, got it working in the end. And yeah it was recognised in BIOS just not in the installer.

Tried the fail safe things and that didn't do anything, in the end I put it in an external caddy and hooked it up to my PC (I never turn my pc and couldn't be bothered to) and so reformatted it and then it showed up :confused: It wasn't corrupt previously as I was able to browse the contents of the harddrive before formatting to find it was an old backup drive for my drivers and my documents.
 
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