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Answer» Greetings,
I have acquired 2 Intel® Desktop Board DQ965GF with a 3gh processors that came from working machines.
I am trying to set one up in an old Acer box with a 550 Watt power supply.
I have tried two SATA drives separately and together both were working well in other machines before trying here. The first an 80 gig Segate has been slow formatted and fully checked by Windows and the Sea Tools from Seagate and showed no problems. The second a 160Gg Maxtor unit that was in a working unit.
A 2 gig DDR2 X 800 known to be working and also tried a 1gig DDR2 to be sure.
The unit will post or go to BIOS set up but it will not detect any HARD drive. I have removed the battery, let sit for 1 hour, re set the jumper, restored the BIOS to factory set up, loaded default settings, and played with just about every combination of settings in the BIOS.
There are 6 ports for the HD and I have tried each one, The light on the HD lights up when booting and flashes with the DVD light when it is working, I can load any disk into the DVD and have run Hirens boot disk and Ubutu but still no HD.
I followed a guide on set up on an online guide from Intel for this board but no joy. I am at a loss for an understanding.
I will try anything before I need to go out and BUY the latest motherboard and CPU for too much money, I am running an older set up on another PC with Win 7 and it is all I need, I don't want the fastest and the best do do the little online tasks that I do.
Thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
Bob
You might need to install some drivers.
Is there a SCSI, SAS, or RAID controller?
When you run your installation disk, watch for the screen that says to hit F6 to load third party drivers. With Win7 you can use a USB device you've downloaded the drivers to.Do these HDD's have Windows installed on them ? ? If so they have different drivers most likely...
If they are blank boot to the Windows CD...very early on it will message "Press F6 to install additional Drivers "...
At that point insert the MBoard Driver CD and setup will continue...One drive [80Gig] has been slow formatted and checked with the manufactures program and Windows disk checking program.
The HDs are not seen in BIOS, there is no HD listed in the BIOS to "hit F6 to load third party drivers" to.
Both Motherboards are the same and cannot even see any HD just the DVD.
When I access BIOS or load a RAM resident program, such as UBCD or Hirens boot disk, they cannot find any HD connected to the computer.
The only thing I can think of seems too impossible to be true, both MB's have the same fault after being removed from working units, unless if there is no hidden part of the BIOS that I cannot access. I have followed Intel's directions for setting up the BIOS to find HD's but still to no avail.
As the post screen lists all 6 SATA ports as not having a HD connected, will a "F6" driver CD/Thumb drive be able to find and load drivers?
Until you install an OS and the MBoard SATA drivers they won't be seen...Drivers will not be installed until a drive is found to install them onto.
Unless the drivers are installed into a RAM drive, there is no HDD to install them to.
There is no HDD found in the BIOS can this be resolved by installing drivers?Have you tried another sata cable?As there are two working HDD's [in other PC's not this one] in the unit I have tried two working cables plus a brand new cable straight out of the packet.From brief Google of board specs, BIOS should have option to run SATA controller in IDE emulation mode. Does this make a difference? Also are all cables correctly installed?
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-020811.htm
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The SATA controller has three modes of operation:
IDE mode - no AHCI, no RAID
SATA mode (sometimes called AHCI mode) - AHCI enabled, no RAID
RAID mode - AHCI enabled, RAID enabled
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This APPLIES to:
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Intel® Desktop Board DQ965GF
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Yes, until I set up the BIOS as you described I do not see the SATA ports, When enabled as IDE I get the six ports shown all without a drive attached when there are one or two drives plugged in and showing a flashing red light as they seem to be accessed.
But I have tried many different combinations with RAID on and OFF, AHCI on and off, SMART on and off, reset defaults, removed battery and set jumper, reset defaults with jumper off and on, replaced jumper and set to IDE, etc, etc, etc
"Are the cables correctly installed?" Is there a way to incorrectly install the cables? You cannot swap power for Data cable, you cannot turn them over and as long as they are pushed home they cannot be installed incorrectly, can they?
It is starting to look like filling the box with concrete and using it as a boat mooring is going to be the only answer.
The only MB and CPU I could find the other day was an I3 setup and as they are so new they are still very expensive. Just under $300 and it was for DFDR3 not sure but I think I can still use DDR2 in the new DDR3 slots, is that correct, or do I need new RAM as well? go to RUN line if you are using windows operating system type (dxdiag) no bracket ok.And check from there if is your hard drive or hdd connector.Quote from: Ademil4vic on August 29, 2011, 04:15:27 AMgo to RUN line if you are using windows operating system type (dxdiag) no bracket ok.And check from there if is your hard drive or hdd connector.
You can ignore above nonsense post.
Hi,
No problem on ignoring that post, but please comment on my post about RAM?
Can I use DDR2 on a motherboard that uses DDR3, I was told that at least some MB's will accept both in the same slot?Quote from: bob180bob on August 29, 2011, 06:58:56 AMCan I use DDR2 on a motherboard that uses DDR3, I was told that at least some MB's will accept both in the same slot?
Whoever told you that was mistaken; even though DDR3 and DDR2 have 240 pins, they have different slot layouts (the size and position of the pins differ). By the way, the DQ965GF uses DDR2. There are a few motherboards that have slots for both DDR3 and DDR2 however. Maybe this is what your friend had heard and misremembered.
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/dq965gf/sb/CS-025978.htm
QuoteIntel® Desktop Board DQ965GF
The board has four DIMM sockets and supports the following memory features:
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1.8V (only) DDR2 SDRAM DIMMs with gold-plated contacts
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Thank you for that.
I understand about my boards and I have DDR2 800 and as it shows a POST, they must be working. I have three 1 gig and one 2Gig sticks and I use a 2 and 1 gig stick in my current computer with no problems.
I will now try to find a board that will accept DDR2 RAM as well as DDR3 as I don't want to have to buy DDR3 RAM as well as the motherboard, CPU and heat sink and fan.
Do you know of a reasonably priced MB that will take DDR2 and DDR3?
I think that there must be a MB problem with both of these MB's and I am just going to give up and go for a new board.
I only use the net for emails, IM and Skype and do not play any games, I have no need for a fast unit as what I use now is good enough for my online and off line use.
If I could I would just get a new MB that was not as advanced as DDR3 and it would be good to get one to take my CPU as well but there is only the newer stuff out there, I have looked in a lot of shops around here and I am not happy to buy most things like this online..
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