AsRock 939-Dual-SATAII | Blue screen on startup @ SATAII

[panda]

Hi guys.
I thought you might be able to help me.
I have a samsung sataII harddrive that is plugged into the sataII on my motherboard. In BIOS it is set to run SATA mode, and strong. When i install windows, it just pops right into to a blue screen and reboots when showing the loading screen. Same thing goes for both XP and vista by the way. If i set the harddrive to IDE mode, everythings fine, but that would be plain stupid right? One thing i noticed is that on XP, if set to SATA strong mode, it will pop into blue screen between 5-10 times, followed by a reboot everytime, and all of a sudden it may actually boot. So it took like half an hour, but it did boot.

What would i do to make this work? atm. im thinking about putting it into sata-150 mode, just so its not as slow as IDE.

Please help :)

[Mussels]

'as slow as IDE' is bogus, as the drive is the same speed on the IDE compatiblity mode anyway. So you would lose VERY little speed.

Heres the big thing: did you install windows with it set to IDE? If so, it would be using microsofts IDE drivers... and NOT the JMicron SATA-II drivers that mobo needs.

The only solution is to throw it onto the SATA-I ports and boot windows, IF that works, change the SATA-II port back to the SATA-II speed, and while in windows it should allow you to update the driver to the SATA-II.... and hopefully when you reboot and install the hard drive to the SATA-II port, it will work as intended.

Moral of the story? use the F6 driver floppy when installing XP...

[panda]

I did use the F6 floppy driver method for windows xp, and for vista i also picked out the JMicron drivers to install. Same trouble though :(

Si dont see how the sataI could help me atm.

[Mussels]

in that case i apologise, what i said seemed exceptionally likely to me.

What i meant was using the SATA1 ports, not locking the drive to sata1 speeds. Running on the SATA1 ports would probably be faster than running IDE mode on the SATAII, if not by much.

And just to clarify: Setting to IDE mode ditches features like NCQ and may cap the speed to 100MB/s (instead of 150/300 for SATA1/2) but you wont see that much of a speed difference, none of the samsungs ever pass 70MB/s in speed. (I have quite a few samsungs here) - IDE mode is designed to allow winXP (and possibly other OS's) to install without needing the F6 floppy.

[panda]

Hmm ok
I just intalled my pc with windows vitsa ultimate, and it runs fine under IDE with my SATAII harddrive, but im not sure if it would be "alot" faster if i got it working at SATA mode? Should i just leave it in IDE then? Sorry my english is not so good :(

[Mussels]

Between IDE, SATA and SATA-II there is VERY little speed difference.

If its working, you might as well leave it on IDE.