GA-P55-USB3 - very slow to install windows

[amaar]

Hi, only got this board today so not really familiar with it yet. But why is it that a windows install is going at a snails pace? Like the DVD drive is at 1 or 2 speed. Its a sata DVD drive btw. Could it be the drive settings in the bios? Native sata, eide or whatever?

[Dark Mantis]

The drive settings are best put to IDE in the BIOS. It is generally more stable than AHCI. AS to why the slow speed if you would llike to give us some more information regarding your hardware maybe we can help.

[absic]

Yes, I totally agree with DM, the more info that you can give the easier it is to offer practical advice.

One thought though... If you are not using a Floppy Drive disable this feature in BIOS as it has been known to sometimes cause a problem of this type.

[amaar]

OK I think I sorted it out. The DVD drive was on slave, plugged it into master and seems OK now. I guess it would've taken me hours for Windows 7 to install, so interrupted it and did it over again, its doing much faster now.

[Dark Mantis]

I thought it was SATA?

[amaar]

It IS Sata! I got 6 Sata ports, but half show up as slave! First time I seen this, lol. My last GB mobo was not like this.

p.s actually 8 sata ports, 2 set apart from the other 6 are sata 3.

[Dark Mantis]

It's only the way the BIOS interprets them in IDE mode. Each port is seperate and neither master nor slave.