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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with AMD processors => Topic started by: Soupy on November 18, 2010, 10:14:42 pm
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I just got GA-890GPA-UD3H. I want to install windows 7 pro with AHCI support so I can have my eSata drives hot swappable. Im a little confused on which driver to use or if im supposed to use them all? Not totally sure on how to install them using a flash drive?
Thanks,
Ken
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Hi there,
Set your SATA controller to AHCI then just let Windows 7 do it's thing, you won't need to use F6 to load any drivers.
Once you have loaded windows you don't want to worry about loading AMD's AHCI drivers as I have found they are actually worse than the Microsoft ones.
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Hi there,
Set your SATA controller to AHCI then just let Windows 7 do it's thing, you won't need to use F6 to load any drivers.
Once you have loaded windows you don't want to worry about loading AMD's AHCI drivers as I have found they are actually worse than the Microsoft ones.
Problem with this board (and probably others?) is the hot swap is only available on the GSATA ports. No matter the settings any drive hooked up to the 6 main SATA ports will not show up as removable. This is causing me a bit of grief as I use hot swap bays on my Zalman case for some internal drives as well as using the E-SATA ports for some external drives.
This page http://forums.ocworkbench.com/showthread.php?t=101499&page=2 (http://forums.ocworkbench.com/showthread.php?t=101499&page=2) suggests a Bios limitation with the Asrock boards, so perhaps it is the same with the Gigabyte ones?
Now I can understand the reason for this, it is so people can't inadvertently remove their OS drive ( :P) but would be nice to have the option of turning this on or off so those that need it can have more than 2 hot swap capable ports.
As on Onchip Sata Port 4/5 seem to be separately configurable from the other 4 SATA ports perhaps hot swap capability could be added to those 2 ports?
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well yeah
I had my 4/5 ports set for AHCI and they did work, don't know really about the 4 main 6 Gb/s cuz since I have a raid array on those
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well yeah
I had my 4/5 ports set for AHCI and they did work, don't know really about the 4 main 6 Gb/s cuz since I have a raid array on those
Ha teach me to look through things properly.
Just discovered a setting in the BIOS to set "onChip Sata port as ESP".
With this setting you can enable or disable hot swap on any of the 6 onchip sata ports.
So I can have my OS drive hidden from the "safely remove hardware" option in windows but enable it for any of the other ports on an individual basis.
Super neat, pity there seems to be no mention of it in the manual.
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A lot of the information in the manuals is a little basic and could do with more detail.
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A lot of the information in the manuals is a little basic and could do with more detail.
The only bios manuals I ever read that were worth a dam were for Abit boards. They told you exactly what each setting did and the default settings were 99% of the time exactly where they should be. If Abit still made boards today the bios book would be the size of a collage dictionary with the number of bios settings in today's boards.
Bill
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Agreed Bill. I had forgotten how well documented those Abit boards were. Shame other manufacturers didn't follow the same path...with the manual that is not the going out of business. ;D