Help Please. IC7Max3

[jmcelvoy]

I tried rebuilding my computer last night and now I can't get it to boot. I have an 80GB drive that was plugged into SATA3, I have 2 1TB drives plugged into SATA 1 & SATA 2. Now when I try to reload my OS, it only detects what's in SATA 1 & 2. I put the 80GB drive in Sata1 and loaded the OS and then put it back on SATA3 like it was, but it says no boot device. If I move the 1TB drives to SATA 4 & 5, it sits at the Press ctrl+S(F4) to configure RAID screen(I don't want anything on any RAID). I reset my BIOS to factory default and that didn't help. I have the BIOS configured for Enhanced Mode with SATA 3 being master. What do I need to do to get this working again? Also, after resetting to factory defaults, when I put the 80GB OS drive back on SATA1, it just blue screens. I don't care where they are plugged in, as long as the 80GB is my OS drive, and I don't lose the data on the 2 1TB drives.

[BUFF]

never had an iC7 but iirc the 875 chipset only had 2 native SATA ports on the south bridge so the others will be on an addon controller - probably a Silicon Image.
You will need to install a driver for the addon controller.

[jmcelvoy]

All 6 SATA ports are onboard...no add-on controller.

[Grey M@a]

They are on board but only two sata ports 1 and 2 are supported by the south bridge, the other 4 sata 3 - 6 are on a silicon image chip instead of the southbridge so you need the drivers for the other 4 sata ports.

[BUFF]

"MAX3 features 6 channel serial ATA RAID with the Silicon Image 4-port serial
ATA RAID controller plus native 2 channel support"

http://www.abit.com.tw/page/en/mothe..._NAME=IC7-MAX3

2 are "onchip" the other 4 are "onboard".

[jmcelvoy]

I just rebuilt this thing about 6 weeks ago and didn't have to download any drivers or load any additional software. I put the OS drive on SATA1, built the computer, put it back on SATA3 and it booted up just fine. I'm confused as to why I now need additional drivers. I'm assuming your talking about pressin F6 to load additional drivers when the windows setup is starting? Are the drives I need on the linked site above? Also, why would my computer hand on bootup when I have the 2 1TB drives in SATA 4&5? I thouhgt it might be due to the size, but I gave it 5 minutes and it was still just sitting there...blinking cursor.

[hedron]

Why are you moving the drives around so much? Just put in the drive you want to install the OS on.

With SATA, master and slave don't exist.

If you didn't press F6 when you installed windows then of course it's not going to boot. That's the only way that you can install SATA drivers on the initial run as they are not included in XP because SATA didn't exist when XP was created. This may have changed with SP3 though.

You need additional drivers for the silicon image controller, because Intel doesn't make those. I assume you only installed SATA drivers for the 875 chipset.