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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: pstone on November 13, 2010, 03:07:37 am

Title: GA-870A-UD3: SATA 6.0 shows up at ATA???
Post by: pstone on November 13, 2010, 03:07:37 am

Did I miss something? I've tried several times to install Win 7/64 and each time, when all is said and done, the Sata 6.0 1TB drive is listed as ATA and scores 5.9 on W7 Index. OK... I think that's wrong. My 1/5th the speed laptop scores a 5.1 on it's old internal IDE drive...

I've set everything to SATA in Bios but when I do that, the IDE CD-ROM drive fails to boot as if it's being shared with a SATA controller yet the manual mentioned nothing about that.

I've put the SATA drive into 3_0 and 3_4 with the same results...

Anyone know exactly what settings need to be what in the BIOS to get this work or am I crazy? Is it really ATA and listing it (s)ATA? I doubt that... my other old desktop with a SATA drive is listed as SCSI.

I've updated to the latest BIOS.

Thanks in advance.

Title: Re: GA-870A-UD3: SATA 6.0 shows up at ATA???
Post by: absic on November 13, 2010, 08:35:13 am

Nope you didn't miss anything and welcome to the wonderful world of the Windows Experience Rating.

If the hard drive is mechanical then I doubt you will get it above 5.9 no matter what you try. I am currently testing a RAID0 Array using SATA3 (6GB/s) Mechanical HDD's and guess what, W.E. is still only 5.9. so don't get hung up on it.

Title: Re: GA-870A-UD3: SATA 6.0 shows up at ATA???
Post by: Dark Mantis on November 13, 2010, 11:46:44 am

We all know it's just a Micr$oft conspiracy ;D

Title: Re: GA-870A-UD3: SATA 6.0 shows up at ATA???
Post by: pstone on November 13, 2010, 04:40:57 pm

Ahhh... Thanks for letting me know!

I actually was able to get the mobo to finally format and recognize it as SATA and wouldn't you know it. 5.9 :P

Hahah - Conspiracy? Microsoft? Naaaaaaaaa...

Title: Re: GA-870A-UD3: SATA 6.0 shows up at ATA???
Post by: Heimdall on May 30, 2011, 09:10:22 pm

How did you do it? Care to share?

Title: Re: GA-870A-UD3: SATA 6.0 shows up at ATA???
Post by: Dark Mantis on May 30, 2011, 09:55:32 pm

Yes it's easy he just pushed the button that says run assessment!  ;D ;D ;D