I got the SH-D163B pre-flashed off ebay. I installed it in my Gigabyte GA-965P DS3 MB into a sata port with (i think) Intel ICH8 whatever its called. I got XBC 2.8 and started it, in SPTI mode only my IDE drive's name was displayed and when I tried to click on either of my Sata drives I got a logic error. I switched to ASPI and all three names were displayed but it would say no media in drive when I try to select. Messing with all different options I have never had the start button able to be selected. I tried Schtrom 3.4 and I think that it would get to 3% and say can't extract SS.bin. After trying to install XP unsuccessfully to try I settled for dualbooting Vista 32 bit (i have 64 installed), I was getting different errors for both programs but the drive wasn't recognized in XBC still. I then took the drive out and took it to my grandmas because she is the closest person with a sata port. I put it in and on her 32 bit Vista it worked. I brought it back home and went on ebay and got a 3 SATA + 1 IDE Port PCI Controller Card with VIA_VT6421 sata controller. I switched the drive to the main port on that and now in XBC it recognizes the drive in both modes and it regocnizes that there is a disk with 7.05 gigs in the drive, also it says that there is kreon 1.0 firmware on the drive. I still cannot select start and it doesn't say the name of the game. In Schtrom it says that the drive is compatable but is not flashed with kreon firmware. I have searched for almost a week and couldn't find anything that would solve it. Sorry for the long post. Any help is greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance.
What do you mean? I have two harddrives and a burner aside from the SH-D163B and they all work fine. If you are talking about in the BIOS I am almost positive that it is enabled, otherwise I am not sure what you are refering to.
Sata AHCI mode Disabled/ACHI
Sata Port 0-1 Native Mode Enabled/Disabled
Onboard Sata/IDE Device Enabled/Disabled
Onboard Sata/IDE Ctrl Mode IDE/AHCI/(RAID/IDE)
These are the only things in my BIOS for SATA
Sata AHCI mode Disabled/ACHI:
Disabled = Computer wont boot
ACHI = problem above, left as AHCI
Sata Port 0-1 Native Mode Enabled/Disabled:
didn't make a differance and I am sure that I had the drive in port 0 or 1, left as Enabled
Onboard Sata/IDE Device Enabled/Disabled:
can't remember specifics but neither worked, left as Enabled
Onboard Sata/IDE Ctrl Mode IDE/AHCI/(RAID/IDE):
None worked, left as AHCI
I tried all of these with the drive in the Intel SATA ports on my MB after they didn't work I put the drive onto a different port on the SATA card. It still will recognize the drive, firmware, and that there is a game. It stops at Bytes Used: 7.05 GB and start is greyed out. Any ideas because I am out.
