Hello everybody, I have a MSI -- K9AGM2 (MS-7327) computer. The hard drive that came with the unit died, RIP Seagate. It was a Seagate (ST3250620AS) 7200.10 rpm Barracuda 250 GB Hard Drive. I purchased a new hard drive, a Hitachi DeskStar 7200 rpm, 500GB SATA Hard Drive.
I plugged it in, the BIOS reads it. When i put the startup disk in and go to fdisk, it says no fixed disk. when i put the windows xp installation disk in it wont recognize it. During installation it ask me to press F6 to install raid sata drivers.
I have my MSI utilities disk G71-MA31008. inside their are several folders two being a IDE folder which contains a Silcon Image folder , which contains a Sil3132 folder which contain RAID and SATA folders which contain drivers in each folder. Then their is a ULi folder which contains ULi SATA/RAID controller driver.

I don't know if these are the drivers I should be using or their something I am doing wrong. any help you can offer would be appreciated....

ISTM that you should be looking for Windows XP SATA preinstallation drivers for the AMD SB600 chipset.

This driver set is from the Asus web site, but it should be OK:
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/misc/u ... 154039.zip
http://support.asus.com/download/downlo ... &model=M3A

MakeDisk.exe should create a preinstallation floppy diskette for you.

From the user manual ...

Chipset
- North Bridge: AMD® 690G/ 690V chipset
- South Bridge: SB600 chipset

- 1 IDE port by SB600
- Supports four SATA II devices by AMD® SB600
- Supports RAID 0, 1 and 0+1 mode by AMD® SB600

MSI K9AGM2 MS-7327 (v1.X) Mainboard User Manual:
http://static.highspeedbackbone.net/pdf ... Manual.pdf

AMD Chipset Drivers by Device:
http://wwwd.amd.com/AMD/SReleaseF.nsf/s ... enDocument

This article may help:
http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Ahci-Sup ... tallations

It has a workaround for AHCI BIOS problems and Windows BSODs.

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