[hazerb30]

Im having a hell of a time just installing an OS on this drive at the moment. If someone has some clue im all ears (but no hair left..)

Ive got the gigabyte board and using Sata 300GB Samsung HDD. I tried installing XP using CD and it starts off ok loading all the drivers required and then says 'Starting installation' or something and goes straight to blue screen of death with 0x0000007b. Never get to format drive or choose where to install windows at all.

Now apparently this error is something about unable to access a drive to install to. I thought that made sense (ive never installed XP to SATA drive before) and it might need a F6 driver during boot. I downloaded drivers for it (several times from different sources) and it seems happy with it but still get the BSOD. tried so many times.

The drive detects in BIOS ok.
I have updated BIOS


For BIOS SATA setting, Should i be using AHCI,RAID,RAID/IDE or IDE ?
Is there some jumpers or settings of the drive that im missing?

Am i looking at the wrong area completely ? Surely this cant be this hard..