Gigabyte SATA Trouble

entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
edited March 2004 in Science & Tech
I'm having problems with a 120 gig seagate (as far as i can tell) sata hdd and gigabyte ga8ipe1000L revision 2. the problem does not lie in ide devices, as they've all been shut off but it didn't help. the problem is, my hdd isn't detected from a cold boot...only after i push ctrl alt delete is it detected. and it doesn't matter whether i map the sata0 over to ide or not - result is the same. here's the thread with all the options and help that have been tried. http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?p=118433#post118433

thnx

Comments

  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    Yeah - I know we have some staunch Gigabyte supporters here. Come and share your expertise. :nudge:

    Please? :wave:
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited March 2004
    PROBLEM SOLVED! if you get this problem (OR ON ANY OTHER MOTHERBOARD, AS THAT'S HOW I GOT THE IDEA...KINDA) hit escape when bios is doing the memory testing. don't ask how or why it works, just know that it does :D

    -tj-
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited March 2004
    I am glad to hear that! At least you can take some consolation in knowing that you've probably learned more about your board in a short time than you would have if things had gone smoothly.

    One little thing troubles me - your solution indicates that you might have a memory problem. I'd run memtest86 to be sure.

    Good job! :thumbsup:
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited March 2004
    Entr0py,

    What board was it and were you booting off a single drive or a raid. Were the drives new (no partitions) or otherwise.

    Give me as much info as possible and I'll see if this has popped up with Gigabyte before. :)
  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited March 2004
    Gigabyte GA8IPE1000L revision 2, single sata drive, and it was new (might've been refurb tho 95% sure it's new) and actually it did have 2 partitions on it, the latter of which broke eventually (chkdsk kept trying to scan it, everytime it found nothing wrong with it. :S) i haven't had a chance to delete it yet, but in 2 days or so i plan on formatting the whole drive. that didn't matter becuase that problem had occured before i had the partitions on it. and i ran memtest86 (actually i did it overnight) with a grand total of 11 tests, no errors. i do get a refresh error on occasion when i shutdown (mem or hdd?)
  • MediaManMediaMan Powered by loose parts.
    edited March 2004
    1) Flash to the latest bios.

    2) A single drive where the second partition "broke"? Well...that's a new one. Here's what I'd do. Go to the hdd manufacturer website and see if there is a low level format utility. Do a low level format on the drive which scrubs it down clean. If there isn't go to www.bootdisk.com and download the win98se boot disk and use fdisk function in dos to remove all partitions on the disk and then reformat in dos to do a clean wipe.

    Reinstall and make your partitions in Winxp.

    It could be, since memtest86 showed no errors, a specific memory/mobo clash or the hdd had some bad sectors.

    Hope this helps.
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