Hello: I finished a new build Saturday. The computer is working well: GA EP35-DS3R; E8400 Core 2 Duo; 2GB G-Skill 1066 RAM; Radeon HD 3650; WD 500 GB HD, Creative sound, LG 22-inch monitor, Samsung DVD and Vista Home Premium..
I have internet and home network working well, and watching dvd movies.
I didn't want a raid setup, but I thought using the ACHI capability of the MB would use the best features of the sata hard drive. I had read that Vista didn't need a sata driver installed in Vista setup; that installing the Intel Matrix storage manager could wait until after Vista's installation. Bios recognized my hd and dvd; I connected the hd to sata 0 connector, and the dvd to sata 1, and configured the bios for autodetect.
I then selected Sata AHCI mode.
But now, even though the computer is working, and the HD shows up in explore, as does the dvd, when I check the bios, neither drive shows up at all in the Standard Cmos screen. And although I didn't install a floppy, and didn't enable one in the bios, Vista explore shows a Floppy Disk Drive (A).
After Vista loaded, and completed its updating, it offered an update of the Intel sata ICH9 driver. I accepted and loaded that, but I'm wondering just what's happening in the bios and what configuration I actually have.
In Device Manager, it shows, under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers:
ATA channel 0
ATA channel 1
Intel ICH9 SATA AHCI controller
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE controller
Should I just leave it alone and enjoy the computer, or is there a better way to configure the setup? Thanks for any help.
Shawnee
I have internet and home network working well, and watching dvd movies.
I didn't want a raid setup, but I thought using the ACHI capability of the MB would use the best features of the sata hard drive. I had read that Vista didn't need a sata driver installed in Vista setup; that installing the Intel Matrix storage manager could wait until after Vista's installation. Bios recognized my hd and dvd; I connected the hd to sata 0 connector, and the dvd to sata 1, and configured the bios for autodetect.
I then selected Sata AHCI mode.
But now, even though the computer is working, and the HD shows up in explore, as does the dvd, when I check the bios, neither drive shows up at all in the Standard Cmos screen. And although I didn't install a floppy, and didn't enable one in the bios, Vista explore shows a Floppy Disk Drive (A).
After Vista loaded, and completed its updating, it offered an update of the Intel sata ICH9 driver. I accepted and loaded that, but I'm wondering just what's happening in the bios and what configuration I actually have.
In Device Manager, it shows, under IDE ATA/ATAPI controllers:
ATA channel 0
ATA channel 1
Intel ICH9 SATA AHCI controller
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE controller
Should I just leave it alone and enjoy the computer, or is there a better way to configure the setup? Thanks for any help.
Shawnee
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