Hard Drive settings in BIOS

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Barnabas

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I now am ready to load Vista Home Premium x64 on a new SATA HD. I will not be setting up any RAID or anything. What settings should I make sure are there in the BIOS or need to be changed? My board is a Intel DP35DP. Does anyone here have this board or could help a first time builder :rolleyes:
Thanks!
Barnabas
 

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Hi Barbabas,

You will be fine using defaults but if you have problems you know where to find us ;)

Steven

Barnabas said:
I now am ready to load Vista Home Premium x64 on a new SATA HD. I will not be setting up any RAID or anything. What settings should I make sure are there in the BIOS or need to be changed? My board is a Intel DP35DP. Does anyone here have this board or could help a first time builder :rolleyes:
Thanks!
Barnabas
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If you want the advantages of NCQ (most users don't need it) then you'll need to ensure the SATA mode is RAID or AHCI. You shouldn't need any special drivers if you connect the SATA HDD to one of the Intel controller ports (rather than a 3rd-party/manufacturer SATA controller). Vista has built-in drivers for most of the ICH SATA controllers.

If you don't need NCQ, I'd stay with defaults and install in IDE mode. It's less messing around if anything goes wrong.
 

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He said he is not using RAID....
 

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Didn't know that - but now that I think about it, you're right - my folks bought a Dell machine and got Vista as an update, and it would never install - even the Dell techs couldn't figure it out - but I went and enabled RAID even though they only have a single drive and it installed just fine.

However, I would guess that the Intel board would not have such a restrictive BIOS as OEM computers do....still, my apologies for not thinking that one all the way through....
 

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    INTEL Cherryvill 520 Series SSDSC2CW180A 180 GB SSD
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Thanks all for the reply :)

My BIOS has these settings ATA/IDE Configuration : Disable, Legacy, Enhanced (or Native). I have it set to Enhanced (or Native). Also there is a Configure SATA as... and the choice are IDE, RAID, or AHCI. This is where I stopped and thought, "ah, IDE or AHCI?" My HD is a Seagate 250GB SATA 3.0gb interface. IDE is the default so I guess it could be set to that or to the Advanced Host Controller Interface. I just don't know which one. Can you set it to one and go back to change it later if there is a conflict with the installation? When I get it set, I'll post back and let you know so anyone who has this MB will have a reference.

Barnabas
>aka Dave<
 

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    My first build
    CPU
    Intel E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz
    Motherboard
    Intel DP35DP
    Memory
    4GB Kingston ValueRam DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 1.8v
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI NX8400 256MB PCI
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2007
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda ES.2 250GB SATA 7200 RPM 32MB Cache
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 430 PSU
    Case
    Antec Solo Black (VERY quiet)
    Cooling
    Antec Tri-cool 80mm front - stock Antec 120mm rear fan
Barnabas said:
Thanks all for the reply :)

My BIOS has these settings ATA/IDE Configuration : Disable, Legacy, Enhanced (or Native). I have it set to Enhanced (or Native). Also there is a Configure SATA as... and the choice are IDE, RAID, or AHCI. This is where I stopped and thought, "ah, IDE or AHCI?" My HD is a Seagate 250GB SATA 3.0gb interface. IDE is the default so I guess it could be set to that or to the Advanced Host Controller Interface. I just don't know which one. Can you set it to one and go back to change it later if there is a conflict with the installation? When I get it set, I'll post back and let you know so anyone who has this MB will have a reference.

Barnabas
>aka Dave<
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IDE is better for games and you can switch to AHCI later but you cant switch from AHCI back to IDE, once you switch there is no going back.

Steven
 

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Native Command Queuing (NCQ) should not be used on desktop system. If enabled, you are likely to see a decrease in performance. The only situation where NCQ will help is on a server with a lot of disk access from multiple processes.

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sidewinder said:
Native Command Queuing (NCQ) should not be used on desktop system. If enabled, you are likely to see a decrease in performance. The only situation where NCQ will help is on a server with a lot of disk access from multiple processes.

S-
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Spot on. Most people will see no benefit from NCQ, and as you say, it may slow the machine down slightly. That said, in my experience the performance hit is rarely noticeable without benchmarking.
 

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Well..thanks to all here in this thread for helping with suggestions on HD settings! When I placed the Vista x64 DVD in the drive, it was "nervous time". Almost 30 minutes later, I had Vista Home Premium SP1 64bit totally installed without ANY problems. The HD settings of Native and Configure SATA as... IDE worked beautifully. Began installing mostly 32bit programs that are running perfectly after 24hrs. The only program that didn't really install was on the Intel motherboard disk as an added application. Diskeeper Home Edition would not run but that's ok...my WEI scores are all 5.9 except the Graphics 3.5 and Gaming Graphics 4.5 I only have a 256mb $30 card just for the Aero and movies so not at all doing games. Still this thing really flies compared to my old Dell 866mhz with 256mb of ram and 64mb of v-ram!
Well...that's it so if anyone reading this wants to ask about installation questions on a Intel DP35DP board with 4gb of memory and a server HD, this IS the place to get answers! Tnx Tenoq, dmex,
Barnabas :-)
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    My first build
    CPU
    Intel E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz
    Motherboard
    Intel DP35DP
    Memory
    4GB Kingston ValueRam DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) 1.8v
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI NX8400 256MB PCI
    Sound Card
    onboard
    Monitor(s) Displays
    HP w2007
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda ES.2 250GB SATA 7200 RPM 32MB Cache
    PSU
    Antec Earthwatts 430 PSU
    Case
    Antec Solo Black (VERY quiet)
    Cooling
    Antec Tri-cool 80mm front - stock Antec 120mm rear fan
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