New build with a Gigabyte-Z77X-UP5 TH mother board, Intel i7 3770K, Thermaltake TGP-750 power and Level 10 case, 32 GB G skill 1600 ram, Gigabyte GTX 660oc,Samsung 840 128BG ssd for op system, 2 WD RE4 500BG storage drives, running Windows 8 pro 64bit. Booted Bios up and checked that everything was set to AHCI for the ssd and hot-swapping storage drives. Board REV: 1.0 and Bios F11
Board was set to AHCI by default so didn't have to change anything for AHCI. My understanding was that Windows 8 had AHCI south bridge drivers like Windows 7 did so no need to add drivers before loading Windows 8. Install went fine......Gigabyte driver disk would not run on Widows 8 even though the box said Windows 8 ready. No problem got drivers from Gigabyte web site (probably newer drivers anyway...so better)....all seemed to go well. Problem !!!! drives do not show up on tray to eject or hot-swap if you will. Also can not right click to eject in "My computer". They show up in "My computer" and function fine just can not eject or hot-swap. In "Device Manager" under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers only "Intel (R) 7 series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller" is showing.... not all the separate channels like in my Windows 7 build.....which hot-swapping is working fine.
What went wrong ? Seems very odd....everything works fine but can not eject drives. I have know problem starting over and reloading Windows 8 ...but want to understand what went wrong 1st so I don't repeat the mistake. Is it possibly something is wrong with Gigabytes Win. 8 drivers.....did I miss a driver ? Do they not have all the drivers under my mother board name ?
I really could use some help with this if anyone out there is using this board and windows 8. Can you eject your drives ? Where did you get your Drivers ? Is this a known Gigabyte or Windows problem ? I have been Googleing this and can not find it happening with anyone else. Thanks for any help......Peter
Board was set to AHCI by default so didn't have to change anything for AHCI. My understanding was that Windows 8 had AHCI south bridge drivers like Windows 7 did so no need to add drivers before loading Windows 8. Install went fine......Gigabyte driver disk would not run on Widows 8 even though the box said Windows 8 ready. No problem got drivers from Gigabyte web site (probably newer drivers anyway...so better)....all seemed to go well. Problem !!!! drives do not show up on tray to eject or hot-swap if you will. Also can not right click to eject in "My computer". They show up in "My computer" and function fine just can not eject or hot-swap. In "Device Manager" under IDE ATA/ATAPI Controllers only "Intel (R) 7 series/C216 Chipset Family SATA AHCI Controller" is showing.... not all the separate channels like in my Windows 7 build.....which hot-swapping is working fine.
What went wrong ? Seems very odd....everything works fine but can not eject drives. I have know problem starting over and reloading Windows 8 ...but want to understand what went wrong 1st so I don't repeat the mistake. Is it possibly something is wrong with Gigabytes Win. 8 drivers.....did I miss a driver ? Do they not have all the drivers under my mother board name ?
I really could use some help with this if anyone out there is using this board and windows 8. Can you eject your drives ? Where did you get your Drivers ? Is this a known Gigabyte or Windows problem ? I have been Googleing this and can not find it happening with anyone else. Thanks for any help......Peter
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8 pro
- CPU
- intel i7 3770 K
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UP5 TH
- Memory
- 32 GB G skill 1600
- Graphics Card(s)
- Gigabyte GTX 660 oc