Abit AN-M2HD motherboard Pioneer BDC-S02BK SATA not working

[Boftas]

Is there any solution to this problem soon?

I tried to put in an external SATA controller in the pci-express slot. That worked, but I want to use the BlueRay player on the internal SATA because I want to use an graphic card on the PCi-express slot.

[Boftas]

I have got it working!
Installed BIOS ver. 16 and change the settings in BIOS for SATA RAID to use AHCI instead of IDE. Working like a charm now.
Now the only problem is that a bought the motherboard for enjoying Blueray and HD-dvd. But The onboard graphic 7050 is not up to the job for it. I had to buy a Nvidia 8600GT.

When you read about the motherboard and the chipset, you beleave it should be enough with the onboard graphics to play 1080p. It works (blue-ray) if u only have 720p resolution. When u set resolution to 1920x1080 it stutters badly .

Regards

[Capsid]

I have got it working!
Installed BIOS ver. 16 and change the settings in BIOS for SATA RAID to use AHCI instead of IDE. Working like a charm now.
Now the only problem is that a bought the motherboard for enjoying Blueray and HD-dvd. But The onboard graphic 7050 is not up to the job for it. I had to buy a Nvidia 8600GT.

When you read about the motherboard and the chipset, you beleave it should be enough with the onboard graphics to play 1080p. It works (blue-ray) if u only have 720p resolution. When u set resolution to 1920x1080 it stutters badly .

Regards

Just built a HTPC with help from a fiend but I'm still relatively new to this. I have the mobo and Pioneer drive which of course doesn't play. I found this post which I thought would resolve the problem but I installed the latest BIOS (ver 18) and changed the settings as above, but now it won't run Vista since it has detected a change. I am requested to put the Vista disc in a drive and repair the computer, trouble is I never get to the point where it will read the disc. It tries to start Vista from the HDD and then I get a brief flash of a blue screen with text which I can't read and then back to startup. I can break this loop and enter the BIOS setup page. Your advice/help would be appreciated.

UPDATE: used the abit utility disc to update to BIOS ver 17, then changed the SATA RAID to AHCI, but all I get is a blank screen, Vista doesn't install. But at least Vista is working again, I had to reset the CMOS.

NEXT UPDATE:Well, I have managed to get playback at long last. It seems changing from IDE to AHCI was the issue. To resolve it I was lucky to find this solution ID 922976 (can't post urls)
from Microsoft. It is a simple regedit of a msahci driver. I get play back but it is stuttery. I thought I might get away with it on a 1080 x 768 screen, but no.

[Capsid]

Further to my post above, I get juddery play back on all files now including those being read from the HDD and a normal DVD drive, so perhaps it is not the Pioneer drive but the mobo/video card?. Any advice would be most welcome.

[Capsid]

I have got the mobo and drive to work now and play Blu Ray discs smoothly. The solution was to use a PCIe-SATA card which I bought from Maplin for £20.

I found the answer in the avforums, optical drive subforum (can't post link yet).

HTH