can't boot from ich10r

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Limp Gawd
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I've got an EP45-UD3R board with ICH10R. No matter what I set it to, I can't get windows 2008 r2 to install on it. It always tells me I need a driver disk to install it. I put the ich10r disk in and it finds the right driver. When it tries to install it though it says that it can't find the device after. I've tried several different hard drives and all types of settings from raid, achi to ide and nothing seems to change it. Anyone else have this problem?
 
Are your drives plugged into the orange SATA ports or the purple ones? If you have your drives attached to the purple ones, then that would explain things as the ICH10R is only connected to the six orange ones and the purple ones are on a separate chip.
 
I would guess Blue Fox is right on. Installing a Server 2008 R2/ Win 7 OS on an ICH10R boot drive is one of those things that has been done successfully tens of millions of times so I would venture to say it is not the hardware or OS at issue.
 
yea, I'm only using the orange ports. Using the purple ports for the dvd/rom drive. This thing absolutely refuses to install win2k8 r2 because of the drive thing. I'm at a loss to explain it. I'm almost wondering if I should buy like a bootable sata raid card and use that instead.
 
I'm only using the orange ports. Using the purple ports for the dvd/rom drive.
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Have you tried with the optical drive connected to the orange ports?
 
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