sata drivers for win7

[Nismosis]

hello all

this is the 1st time iv posted here so if i screw up....be gentle.
i have a this: GA-K8VT800-RH (rev. 2.x) - GIGABYTE
and yes i know its old but it has never let me down till today and well i need drivers for the sata for win7 as the ones i got off the cd and site do not work and im about to kill small animals in the name of the computer god to try to find a driver for it.


so please if anyone knows where i need to go or what i need to do or need more info about the pc then please speak up.


thanks

 

[Mellon Head]

Welcome to Seven Forums!

I think that Win 7 should be able to supply the driver for that one itself, or it should be available from Windows Update.

Are you going to be installing Win 7 to a machine with this board in it? I had no trouble doing this with an old MSI board of my wife's. Win 7 found the SATA drivers during the install with no problems at all. I didn't use any of the manufacturer's drivers at all, except for the chipset. Windows then updated them on it's own.

 

[Nismosis]

well im on win7 right now with this board and it is fully updated but still no driversso im completely lost on what to do.

 

[Mellon Head]

So, a SATA drive hooked to the ports will boot into Windows? If so, at least something is working. How did you determine that there were no drivers? Have you looked at Device Manager and looked at your drives? I can pretty much promise you that Windows has loaded some kind of driver, or the drives won't work properly. If there aren't any yellow triangles, you should be okay.

Check the driver tab for your drives, if there is no driver listed, click "Update Driver" and let Windows search online for one. The only possible SATA driver that might be hard for you to get for an older motherboard like yours would be a RAID driver. That probably won't be available from MS, and you'll have to get that one from the manufacturer. A normal SATA driver would have been installed when you installed Windows.

 

[Nismosis]

ah sorry im booting off an ide hdd "not sata" and the sata hdd is my storage hdd and yes i can see the hdd in device manager but that's it.

when i look at device manager the raid controller does not have a driver and when i click on update it looks and says that it could not find it and the gigabyte site does not have any drivers for this MB for win7.

damn this sucks lol

 

[stormy13]

Gigabyte may have made the motherboard, but they didn't make the chipset. That board has the Via K8T800/VT8237R+ chipset on it and Via does have an updated driver for the SATA/RAID controller here,

VIA Drivers Download - VIA Technologies, Inc.

just work your way through the dropdowns.

 

[Mellon Head]

A RAID controller might be a problem because almost every manufacturer does something different with the implementation. For that reason, it's usually the manufacturer that supplies those drivers, and with an older motherboard, you take your chances whether they'll update it for Win 7, or not.

Just so that I understand, I should ask... You can see the SATA drive in Device Manager? Are you able to see the drive under Administrative tools >> Storage? You would need to use Admin tools to initialize the drive (partition, format). You won't be able to see the drive in Explorer until it's been initialized and been given a drive letter.

Are you trying to use the SATA ports for a RAID array? If you are, your motherboard may not support Win 7 for RAID, and there isn't a lot you can do about that, unless Gigabyte decides to make a RAID driver for it. Even if it can't support RAID, Windows should still support the SATA interfaces in IDE mode on the board without a driver from Gigabyte.

@stormy13. Just saw your post after I wrote this. Excellent. I didn't think VIA was doing anything with the older stuff anymore. They've been concentrating on the small, low power EPIA line for the past while, and I thought they'd pretty much ended support for everything else. I'm sure I can use something in that link to fix something frustrating at work. Thanks!

 

[theog]

GA-K8VT800-RH (rev. 2.x) - GIGABYTE
VIA Drivers Download - VIA Technologies, Inc.
Both web sites have the same drivers for loading sata controller in setup.

How are you loading the sata controller drivers in the Win 7 install?
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/68505-sata-driver-load-windows-7-vista-setup.html

 

[Nismosis]

i did not load them during setup.
i made the mistake of thinking that win7 had the drivers.

what i find interesting is that it shows up here
http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/1708/41573088.png
but i still cant use it -_-

 

[theog]

1)If you are going to install Win7 to your Sata HD use the load drivers option.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/68505-sata-driver-load-windows-7-vista-setup.html

2) if you are going to leave the Win7 install on your IDE HD, update are drivers here:

 

[Nismosis]

thats the driver that this whole thread is about

sorry if im throwing people around a little, im not used to asking for help so just to recap:

i have 2 hdd's in my pc right now
1:500gb samgung sata hdd
1:seagate 320gb ide

im running windows off the seagate and the samsung is a storage hdd but
i cant get into the samsung cos i do not have the drivers and so far iv been to the gigabyte site and what not and all there drivers do not work and the cd drivers also do not work.

i know if i find the driver for that raid controller then all will be good but its driving me nuts trying to find it.

 

[theog]

thats the driver that this whole thread is about

sorry if im throwing people around a little, im not used to asking for help so just to recap:

i have 2 hdd's in my pc right now
1:500gb samgung sata hdd
1:seagate 320gb ide

im running windows off the seagate and the samsung is a storage hdd but
i cant get into the samsung cos i do not have the drivers and so far iv been to the gigabyte site and what not and all there drivers do not work and the cd drivers also do not work.

i know if i find the driver for that raid controller then all will be good but its driving me nuts trying to find it.

Go to post 6.

 

[Nismosis]

been there done that
it does not even have VT8237R+ on its list and i did try VT8237 and that not even install saying that i did not have anything there it supported.


if im doing something wrong please tell me.

 

[stormy13]

How is the SATA controller configured in the bios? If it is set to RAID the easiest solution would be to set it to IDE mode,



and then it shouldn't need any drivers. Also the slight benefit if any from running in RAID/SATA mode with a single drive isn't really worth the hassle.

 

[Nismosis]

it was already in ide mode and just for the fun of it i changed it to raid and still nothing

 

[stormy13]

the sata hdd is my storage hdd and yes i can see the hdd in device manager but that's it.

Can you please post a screen shot of Disk Management,



so we can see what it is showing as.

 

[Nismosis]

 

[stormy13]

What was the previous OS and was the 500 GB usable?

Also found this little tidbit on the Via forums with regards to the SATA/RAID controller on your board,

http://www.viaarena.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41460

Just from having a quick look around here,

IDE, SATA & Raid Arena - VIA Forums

it looks like that controller can be problematic with Windows 7.

 

[Mellon Head]

i have 2 hdd's in my pc right now
1:500gb samgung sata hdd
1:seagate 320gb ide

Sorry, now I'm confused by that last screen shot. Where did the two 1 TB drives come from? Or am I seeing things?

 

[Nismosis]

the 1tb hdd's are externals

the os before was the same "win7" and yes it was usable but this was on another board.
but that one died...well i think it did >_>...


i was using the old pc when it suddenly went off and when it rebooted i was given a nice
warm cup of blue screen and from then on it never got past the windows log in.

during boot it would ask me if i wanted to boot normally or boot into some win7 fixer program....bot did not work so i gave up on it.

few days later i went to have another go with a new os on a new hdd but even tho it would load past the log in the pc would shut down right away and would not stay in windows for more then a few seconds so im assuming that the motherboard or some hardware is screwed.