Look up the ICH5R on Intel.com and download the pdf that gives
instructions for installing the drivers. Follow the 'F6' method. Even
though you only have one drive you should install the RAID drivers. If
you just map to Primary IDE you will not get the SATA drivers installed.
That is what happened to me and now I have get a second drive in order
to install the ICH5R driver.
The trick is to watch for "to install RAID press F6 now" during boot up,
it goes by in a flash. If you proceed to install with out the ICH5R
driver you won't get a second chance. THE 'press F6' option does not
appear after you have completed installing Windows. That is my
situation with A rev 1 board.
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Gigabyte 8KNXP, P4 2.8C, Corsair TwinX1024-3200C2PT Cas 2-3-3-5,
SiSoft Sandra 2003 Unbuffered ALU 2973MB/s, Int Buff 4909MB/s, Memtest86
2442 MB/s, Zalman CNPS 7000AlCu, WD360GD Raptor, Radeon 8500LL,
WinXP Pro

MTech wrote:
Man I keep reading the manual and all it does is make me more confused. I
just got a WD raptor HD I'd like to run on my 8KNXP. There's so much
conflicting advice out there I thought you masters could straighten me out.

This will be my ONLY HD on the system..can I use it to boot? Should I
connect it to the ICH5R or the SIL3112? I'd just like to take advantage of
a sata drive at this time and maybe move onto a raid configuration
later...hence, the single drive.

Thanks
Don