Need help with SATA RAID/AHCI!

lime · October 12, 2013

http://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4482&dl=1#dl

5th driver for the G1 Sniper M5 mATX motherboard. Could someone help me out with this?

Choose drivers -> windows 7 64bit and theres two sata raid/ahci downloads. One is 0.42MB and the other is a larger file. What does the smaller file do and how does it work as it doesn't have a .exe file, it just says to put these into a USB. How do i install these though. I'll show you a picture of what was extracted from the 0.42MB win 7 zip.

I am trying to install all the current drivers because my PC has been getting bsods, I've diagnosed it constantly. Tried installing new OS & tested RAM. This is my 2nd set of RAM sticks that i have now, the 1st set was RMA'd as i thought were defective. Then i thought the board was defective but as i looked around in my control panel -> Uninstall programs i saw my programs version numbers were older. Could be a reason why my bsod happens. I did happen to update my bios but it still happens but less now so I've come to the conclusion my drivers aren't up to date so i really must install the ahci/sata driver one. Thank you for reading and hopefully someone will help me out. Hope to figure this out by today and never have to deal with that bsods again

Blake · October 12, 2013

The first one which is 0.42MB, you install during the installation of windows.

Inotherwords to install the dirver correctly, you,

1. enable ACHI mode in the bios.

2. Start the install of Windows 7.

3. at the stage where you choose the partition (this is the clean install, not the upgrade method), click advanced and there will be an install driver link.

4. tell it where the driver is on the USB, the installer will use this so when you finish the install and actually run windows of the HDD, it wont blue screen,

5. be happy, the intel rapid one can be installed from the windows desktop.

lime · October 12, 2013

omg, is there any way i can install this without reformatting again, I've already installed 700Gb worth onto my samsung 840 pro 120Gb ssd drive. its wearing my ssd out.