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Gigabyte GA-8i945p Boot Disk Failure, very annoying! Help.

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When I restart or come out of bios, the computer boots recognizing my IDE optical drives, but skips my SATA drives. It says scanning, then goes onto the next screen with the table of information. From there I get Boot Disk Failure, .....Press Enter.

Is this motherboard retarded? It's skipping my hard drives. I have the newest bios version F11, 3 Sata Drives installed, Raid is turned off.

I have a d805 on it and the cpu overclocked fine. Is the overclock too fast for the boot time? I got it at 3.6 Ghz.

Please help.
 
Put the clock back to normal and if it boots then you know it's the overclock that's messing it up. You have the bios set to boot from SATA and not HDD0, correct?
 
Make sure your SATA devices are set to Enhanced, so that it recognizes all of them.
 
I lowered the clockspeed to around 3.5ghz and it seems to work fine now. I have another problem though.

The driver for the onboard lan that I installed from gigabyte's website causes my win xp x64 to lag for around 2 minutes after windows startup (when taskbar appears). After many fresh installs, I pinpointed this to be the problem. Only certain things will lag, like double clicking my network connection (so I can't go on my dsl right away), or right clicking my computer and waiting for the properties window to open.

The driver on there site is beta, is there another driver I can use? How do I uninstall the driver and not have windows recognize it on startup and reinstall the same driver automatically? It needed the driver from me the first time for it to be installed correctly. I tried using update with other drivers, but windows would tell me their not x64 compatible.

Can overclocking affect the onboard lan? And if so, how do I fix it?


Also, what does the chipset inf install do? Should I have installed that prior to the lan driver?
 
Overclocking can affect a lot of things. If you are overclocking the PCI bus etc you could end up with corrupted files on the hard drive and or components that won't work at the higher speed. I've heard it said you can even damage your hardware. If you can lock the PCI bus and memory bus speed I would do it. If you are behind a router you could try using a static IP address to see if it speeds up your network connection time.
 
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