Gigabyte EX58-UD5/Extreme Discussion Thread

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I'm wondering if any one else is having this issue or if any has some ideas for solving this annoying issue.

I had been running the Windows 7 Beta for a couple of months using the ICH10R AHCI drivers. Well, a few days ago I moved to the Windows 7 RC. I made sure that I had AHCI set already in the BIOS so that Windows 7 would just go ahead and install AHCI from the get-go. After running the initial install just fine, the installer restarted my system, the AHCI BIOS screen (where it detects all the devices) came up and then just sat there, not doing anything, indefinitely. The only thing that changed was Windows 7 RC vs. Windows 7 beta - I had booted into the Windows 7 RC setup process off of the DVD in AHCI mode and formatted the drive within the installer. So I changed the BIOS settings back to IDE and it worked just fine.

So I go to change Windows 7 RC to AHCI mode from within the OS, restart, change appropriate BIOS settings (I'm just switching the Intel chipset to AHCI while leaving native IDE mode disabled and the onboard controller disabled), and the AHCI BIOS does the same thing. I've yet to try any of the BIOSes with the updated AHCI BIOS because of the voltage problems I've been hearing about. Any ideas if this might fix the problem? Does anyone have any idea what might be going on here?

Any input is appreciated - thanks!

UPDATE: I just thought of something that I did change. I have three hard drives, one of which I want to be the system, boot, and OS drive (partitions). Well, I've run into issues in the past where Windows would for some reason make the system (boot) drive different from the drive that Windows got installed on. To eliminate this issue, I just leave the other drives unplugged during install and then reconnect them once Windows restarts the system. Well, I installed Windows in AHCI mode with my two other drives unplugged, but I can't remember if it screwed up before or after I reconnected the other drives. Any ideas if this could be the root of the problem??