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Going a little insane after spending a load on this brand new build!
I am building a Dual-Boot Lion/Win7 setup, with the following hardware, and have run into a problem.
Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
Intel i5 2500K 3.3ghz (3.7ghz Turbo)
MSI AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR3 (R6670-MD1GD3)
Corsair Vengeance Black - 8GB 1600mhz (2x4GB)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HDD 7200rpm
Samsung S222AB 22x DVD +/-RW Drive
Alpine 700w ATX PSU
Scenario 1.
When I enable AHCI mode for the Sata drives in the BIOS, the boot just hangs where you would normally see the AHCI drives listed (HDD and DVD). All I am am left with is a flashing cursor at the top of the black screen. This is before any attempt at installing an OS on brand new unused equipment. Once it gets into this state, I am unable to even enter the BIOS even after turning off the machine, so I have to remove the battery on motherboard.
Scenario 2.
I removed the HD 6670 GPU, and booted using the on-board graphics, then I could get both the HDD and DVD to appear in AHCI Mode with no problems .
I successfully installed Lion using UniBeast in this mode, but the on-board graphics are not properly supported and I obviously want to use my new GPU anyway.
Scenario 3.
I re-installed the HD 6670, enabled IDE mode for Sata drives in bios, then I was able to install Windows 7 and that worked fine, so I know the 6670 actually works when in IDE mode.
I would greatly appreciate any insight/help if there is something that I appear to be missing? as far as I am aware the HD 6670 should be installed in the PCIe x16 slot, Although I also tried using the x4 slot to check my approach was right.
So yeah If someone has any clues or suggestions: Please let me know!
I am building a Dual-Boot Lion/Win7 setup, with the following hardware, and have run into a problem.
Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
Intel i5 2500K 3.3ghz (3.7ghz Turbo)
MSI AMD Radeon HD 6670 1GB GDDR3 (R6670-MD1GD3)
Corsair Vengeance Black - 8GB 1600mhz (2x4GB)
Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HDD 7200rpm
Samsung S222AB 22x DVD +/-RW Drive
Alpine 700w ATX PSU
Scenario 1.
When I enable AHCI mode for the Sata drives in the BIOS, the boot just hangs where you would normally see the AHCI drives listed (HDD and DVD). All I am am left with is a flashing cursor at the top of the black screen. This is before any attempt at installing an OS on brand new unused equipment. Once it gets into this state, I am unable to even enter the BIOS even after turning off the machine, so I have to remove the battery on motherboard.
Scenario 2.
I removed the HD 6670 GPU, and booted using the on-board graphics, then I could get both the HDD and DVD to appear in AHCI Mode with no problems .
I successfully installed Lion using UniBeast in this mode, but the on-board graphics are not properly supported and I obviously want to use my new GPU anyway.
Scenario 3.
I re-installed the HD 6670, enabled IDE mode for Sata drives in bios, then I was able to install Windows 7 and that worked fine, so I know the 6670 actually works when in IDE mode.
I would greatly appreciate any insight/help if there is something that I appear to be missing? as far as I am aware the HD 6670 should be installed in the PCIe x16 slot, Although I also tried using the x4 slot to check my approach was right.
So yeah If someone has any clues or suggestions: Please let me know!