GA 890GPA-UD3H SATA HDD not found by Win7

[bclements]

New build machine with the following specs:

GA 890GPA-UD3H rev 2.1
AMD Phenom II x 4 965 Black
4 GB Patriot DDR3-1333 in slots 1 and 3
Radeon 5450 512 DDR2 in PCI-E x16 slot
WD Caviar Blue SATA2 500GB WD5000AAKS 7200rpm on gsata2_7
Logisys 420W PS
No floppy drive

The BIOS identifies the HDD and the DVD correctly.  I'm not configuring for RAID at this time.  The Win 7 64 bit install can"t find the internal SATA drive and doesn't accept the drivers downloaded from the Giga site, (though they came as *.exe's instead of .msi's or .inf"s).

BIOS is set to Native IDE for Onchip SATA type, and the SATA/IDE Ctrl Mode is set to IDE.

I can't find the BIOS version on boot up as described in the FAQ's simply because it isn't displayed.  The first screen visible is the 333 display screen that allows <DEL> to enter BIOS.  I found MXIC 25L8005/8006 in the Qflash utility but wonder that this is not the BIOS version.

I'm running out of tricks to try.  Any suggestions are welcomed.

[Dark Mantis]

Hi and welcome to the Gigabyte Forum.

Try moving the hard disk drive to SATA2_ 0.  Set the conrtroller to IDE.

Also your PSU is underpowered even though your system isn't particularly power hungry. Gigabyte recommend 550W minimum.

[bclements]

The _0 SATA connection is sata3_0 and it gives the same result.

[Tiger]

To install Windows 7, you need to set the boot order to boot from the DVD-ROM first.

Drivers downloaded from Gigabyte Support usually have a self-extractior the needs to be run FIRST to uncompress the files and make them usable.

The initial BIOS release is fine for your CPU.

[WAWood8]

Also, my experience (which may not be typical) is that when you insert the Gigiabyte CD and it autoloads, it also autoruns!

So, you need to use this CD before you do any Windows Updates for drivers, otherwise, you run the risk of replacing newer drivers from Windows Updated with older drivers from the CD.

I've used CDs like this for ASUS boards before, and they never autoran.  But this one does.