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Old 05-27-2008, 11:50 AM   #1
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GA P35 DS3 Cannot boot from SATA DVDRW drive (hangs at dmi)

I'm having a peculiar problem...

Whenever I try to boot from CD, it gets to the DMI pool thing and then just hangs. If I eject the CD and restart, it boots back into Vista just fine, and the DVDRW works fine from inside the OS.

The only thing I can think of is that it may have something to do with the configuration of SATA in the bios, but I'm not sure what settings I'd change.

Currently have 5 SATA devices hooked up-- 2 36GB raptors in RAID0 and 2 1TB WDs in RAID1. And the DVDRW.

Any ideas?
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Old 05-28-2008, 09:53 PM   #2
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Re: GA P35 DS3 Cannot boot from SATA DVDRW drive (hangs at dmi)

are there any more details i can provide that would help?
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Old 05-29-2008, 04:06 PM   #3
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Question Re: GA P35 DS3 Cannot boot from SATA DVDRW drive (hangs at dmi)

Do you have a setting in the BIOS for the drives set to AHCI?
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Old 05-29-2008, 05:54 PM   #4
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Re: GA P35 DS3 Cannot boot from SATA DVDRW drive (hangs at dmi)

I'm not running raid on my DS3R and I didn't bother with AHCI this install, opting for IDE emulation instead..My machine boots just fine off my sata DVD... I know, apples and oranges, but here's a screenie of the integrated peripherals anyways..
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Old 05-29-2008, 09:11 PM   #5
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Re: GA P35 DS3 Cannot boot from SATA DVDRW drive (hangs at dmi)

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Do you have a setting in the BIOS for the drives set to AHCI?
Thanks for the responses guys, really appreciate you stopping by to help. I have the bios set to RAID instead of AHCI. I figured that if I set it to AHCI my two sata raid arrays might not work, but that was just a guess.
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Old 05-30-2008, 01:04 AM   #6
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Re: GA P35 DS3 Cannot boot from SATA DVDRW drive (hangs at dmi)

I'm not sure what ports your raid is on, but if you have the sata mode for ports 0-3 set to enabled and the onboard sata/ide device enabled and the dvd is on one of them it should work..
I believe ports 0-3 are the 4 yellow ones.
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