Vista was running doggedly slow the other day so I decided to try to dual boot with Win XP and so I tried to install from CD - for some reason it corrupted the Vista install and so now it's like starting from scratch but I can't get any OS to load now.
After several attempts to recover here's where I'm at;
Removed all HDDs except 1 and put it in Orange slot (Shows as master 1 I believe) Removed all RAM except 1 DIMM of DDR2
With Vista:
Tried to install Vista with the "preinstall" drivers from the Gigabyte website (both intel & gigabyte drivers are on a flash drive) - I get to the load drivers screen and it only allows me to pick the Intel driver (which is fine as I'm using the orange slots) but after it loads the driver it shows no hard drive.
I've tried this with ACHI enabled and disabled and also both Native and Legacy IDE modes. Nothing will allow the HDD to show up.
I also tried with the purple slots and load the gigabyte driver - no hd shows up.
Then I tried with XP Pro:
Disabled ACHI, set Legacy IDE on and tried to install -the HD is found and I did a full NTFS format. XP runs through setup and then says it will reboot. PC reboots and then just sits there with a flashing cursor trying to boot from HD - after several seconds it reboots and does it again. If I press F12 for boot menu and manually choose the hard drive it does the same, just sits with a flashing cursor after running through what looks like the PCI stuff on screen.
I tried Vista again after this.
Same set up - disabled ACHI and Legacy IDE. I get to the "Load drivers" part and no drive shows up. Funny part is if I press "browse" I can browse the "C" drive and the previous XP Install so it's absolutely seeing the drive in there I just can't install the OS to it. I load the drivers from the flash drive and still nothing.
Any help is appreciated as I'm at my wits end!
After several attempts to recover here's where I'm at;
Removed all HDDs except 1 and put it in Orange slot (Shows as master 1 I believe) Removed all RAM except 1 DIMM of DDR2
With Vista:
Tried to install Vista with the "preinstall" drivers from the Gigabyte website (both intel & gigabyte drivers are on a flash drive) - I get to the load drivers screen and it only allows me to pick the Intel driver (which is fine as I'm using the orange slots) but after it loads the driver it shows no hard drive.
I've tried this with ACHI enabled and disabled and also both Native and Legacy IDE modes. Nothing will allow the HDD to show up.
I also tried with the purple slots and load the gigabyte driver - no hd shows up.
Then I tried with XP Pro:
Disabled ACHI, set Legacy IDE on and tried to install -the HD is found and I did a full NTFS format. XP runs through setup and then says it will reboot. PC reboots and then just sits there with a flashing cursor trying to boot from HD - after several seconds it reboots and does it again. If I press F12 for boot menu and manually choose the hard drive it does the same, just sits with a flashing cursor after running through what looks like the PCI stuff on screen.
I tried Vista again after this.
Same set up - disabled ACHI and Legacy IDE. I get to the "Load drivers" part and no drive shows up. Funny part is if I press "browse" I can browse the "C" drive and the previous XP Install so it's absolutely seeing the drive in there I just can't install the OS to it. I load the drivers from the flash drive and still nothing.
Any help is appreciated as I'm at my wits end!
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