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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Motherboards with Intel processors => Topic started by: Zardoz on January 01, 2011, 09:50:46 pm

Title: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Zardoz on January 01, 2011, 09:50:46 pm

Hello, the F6 driver seems to be missing for my motherboard / OS combo. It seems to be available for XP x64. Will it work for W7? Thanks

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Lsdmeasap on January 02, 2011, 07:01:13 am

The best driver to use for Marvell is MSAHCI so you do not need to install one during the windows 7 install.

However, if you want to go against my suggestion, then yes use the XP x64 Pre-install driver download you mentioned from here
http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3324#dl

That driver is for all OS as shown below

(http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/5640/snap21.png)

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: JakeF150 on January 02, 2011, 09:43:31 am

There are more recent versions: (Not claiming they are better, just newer)

[Version]
Signature="$WINDOWS NT$"
Class=System
ClassGuid={4D36E97D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Provider=%Marvell%
DriverVer=11/22/2010,1.0.00.1051
CatalogFile=mv91xx.cat

[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir = 12

;*****************************************
; 91xx Config Device Install Section
;*****************************************

http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/marvell/sata/marvell_91xx_1051(www.station-drivers.com).exe (http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/marvell/sata/marvell_91xx_1051(www.station-drivers.com).exe)

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Zardoz on January 04, 2011, 08:33:27 pm

Quote from: Lsdmeasap on January 02, 2011, 07:01:13 am

The best driver to use for Marvell is MSAHCI so you do not need to install one during the windows 7 install.

Many thanks for the valuable info. However, a followup question... It is my understanding that if I am going to use an AHCI drive as the boot drive then I must still F6 preload the appropriate driver... Where can I get more up to date info regarding the MSAHCI driver for W7 x64?

Best regards!

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Dark Mantis on January 04, 2011, 09:37:07 pm

All the drivers you need to run AHCI are included with Windows 7. Just enable it in the BIOS  as opposed to IDE mode. ;)

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Zardoz on January 05, 2011, 05:51:48 pm

I just got this response from Gigabyte as well:
"Dear customer,
Win7 64bit has Marvell driver implemented, it has no pre-install dirver needs, after Win7 64bit loaded, load the console driver and Raid utility driver that's it.
Best regards,
Gigabyte technical support team."

I will try it and see!
Thanks everyone!
Jim

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Dark Mantis on January 05, 2011, 07:50:45 pm

No problem glad to be able to help. ;)

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Zardoz on January 06, 2011, 12:46:26 am

One final and DUMB question... is the driver listed below really for Intel processors or is it for AMD processors?
I always get confused with the amd64 references...
Thanks!

Quote from: JakeF150 on January 02, 2011, 09:43:31 am

There are more recent versions: (Not claiming they are better, just newer)

[Version]
Signature="$WINDOWS NT$"
Class=System
ClassGuid={4D36E97D-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
Provider=%Marvell%
DriverVer=11/22/2010,1.0.00.1051
CatalogFile=mv91xx.cat

[DestinationDirs]
DefaultDestDir = 12

;*****************************************
; 91xx Config Device Install Section
;*****************************************

http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/marvell/sata/marvell_91xx_1051(www.station-drivers.com).exe (http://www.station-drivers.com/telechargement/marvell/sata/marvell_91xx_1051(www.station-drivers.com).exe)

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Lsdmeasap on January 06, 2011, 07:11:37 am

The Marvell drivers are for both AMD and Intel, it doesn't matter and that is the correct driver for your system.

However, as I mentioned before, I suggest you do not install the Marvell drivers.

Title: Re: Need F6 Driver for W7 x64 Marvell AHCI GA-P55A-UD7
Post by: Dark Mantis on January 06, 2011, 08:53:44 am

I would agree with Lsd in that the Marvell drivers are not the best.