Windows 7 - need help with raid setup

novice13 · 09-01-2011

i am trying to set up raid on my ga-990fxa-ud3, but when i try to install Windows 7 64 it tells me i need a driver for my dvr219L at the begining of the setup, i didnt receive a disc with the drive and cant find drivers any where, i can however install windows without raid activated and both drives are recognised please help me!

UKMedia · 09-01-2011

Hi

You will need to download the raid driver from here

GA-990FXA-UD3 (rev. 1.0) - GIGABYTE - Support&Download - Motherboard - Driver

And then copy onto a memory stick or CD/DVD. Then on the Windows 7 installation, navigate to the driver location when asked and the installation should continue.

Regards
UKMedia

novice13 · 09-01-2011

i have the raid driver on the motherboard disc and have tried to use this but it wont work it is saying that it is missing a driver for the dvd drive as soon as i start the setup

UKMedia · 09-01-2011

Can you copy it to a USB stick?

Regards
UKMedia

novice13 · 09-01-2011

i tried with a usb stick but it says there is no driver and have now tried the driver on the link you provided, still no luck, it dosent get to the point where you would normally install the raid driver and select the drive to install to

UKMedia · 09-02-2011

What BIOS setting do you have your SATA Controller set to? RAID or ACHI?

Have a look at this sticky:

Common Installation Problems and Their Solutions

Regards
UKMedia

novice13 · 09-02-2011

i have it set to raid, had a look at the sticky but it didnt really help

UKMedia · 09-02-2011

Quote: Originally Posted by novice13

i have it set to raid, had a look at the sticky but it didnt really help

Okay

Do you get to the option of selecting Custom Installation? If so, and there is no data that you need on the hard drive, click Drive Options (advanced) and select the partion that you want to format. Only do this if you are happy to lose all data on the HDD.

Regards
UKMedia

stormy13 · 09-02-2011

From the manual for that board,

Make sure you have the DVD drive connected to either SATA port 4 or 5 if it isn't already (these two can be configured independently of the other four when RAID is enabled),

then double check in the bios that it is set to IDE mode. That should make it so that Windows doesn't ask for a driver for the DVD drive.

novice13 · 09-03-2011

thanks guys for all the help, I had the dvd in sata 2 moved it to 4, all good now

Windows 7 - need help with raid setup

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