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Hi hazerb30

my brand new work PC consists of the following:

Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard
Intel 6600 Dual Core CPU
WD Raptor 10000rpm HDD (sata)
8800GTS video card
2 Gig Corsair Pro memory
blah blah blah
Windows Vista Ultimate 32bit

When you setup your HDD, you need to make sure its NOT setup as a raid, or Windows certainly wont install unless you provide it with the driver disk for your raid controller. (which the 965 board can do, but you dont need to as your not using raid)

In the BIOS you need to select the ... Rebooting to see what the flammin setting is...

5 min later....

Ahh, thats right.. you need to set the mode to ACHI.

The three possible settings should be IDE, ACHI and RAID.

Short explination of what they do:

IDE - Runs the hard drive using the same protocols as the old PATA drives.
ACHI - Gives you the new features that sata can provide such as Native Command Queing (speed), Hot plugging.

IF you get grief installing your OS, change the setting to IDE.. BUT after VISTA (and your chipset drivers are installed) are installed change the BIOS back to ACHI - When vista boots it will detect new hardware and install the drivers automagically.