Intel board dg965wh and Vista Ultima

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The intel board, for some reason, will not let me load Vista. I have been
running the RC 1 build with not problems. The board wouldn't work with the
RC 2 build. It is showing no know answers to the ich8 usb controler. Any
help would be greatly appreciated. I have the latest bios update and all
latest Intel drivers.
 
I'm running retail Vista Business on an Intel dg965ryck with no problems. I
am, however, using a 3ware SATA controller as my primary drive and not the
motherboard idea (not sure if that makes a difference). All of my devices are
working including USB.

My upgrade path was an in-place upgrade from XP Pro to Vista.

I did have terrible problems with this board when installing RHEL4 (Red Hat
Enterprise Linux) due to problems with the ICH8 controller, so I'm not
surprised you've run into problems installing vista.
 
I'm running retail Vista Business on an Intel dg965ryck with no problems. I
am, however, using a 3ware SATA controller as my primary drive and not the
motherboard idea (not sure if that makes a difference). All of my devices are
working including USB.

My upgrade path was an in-place upgrade from XP Pro to Vista.

I did have terrible problems with this board when installing RHEL4 (Red Hat
Enterprise Linux) due to problems with the ICH8 controller, so I'm not
surprised you've run into problems installing vista.
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I think the one that really dropped the ball on this issue is Intel.
Same problem with my Gigaabyte GA-965P-DQ6 and the nasty Intel ICH8
controller. I don't think it is the chipset. As the board came out of
the box (about 3 months ago) the included driver on the install CD
worked only if the SATA channels were configured to run in IDE mode.
Through a bunch of trials and errors, (there's lots of BIOS
adjustments on this board) I was finally able to get the SATA drives
to run at their faster SATA speed in XP. Now installing Vista, back to
square one again. Even with a brand new ICH8 Vista driver (only beta
naturally) my SATA drives, I got 6 of them, work or don't depending on
a whole bunch of things. Windows don't even see one in a external case
unless it is set it up to use the USB 2.0 connector instead of the
SATA. Grrrr.
 
I think, you'll find that the problem with the 965 boards isn't the ich8
chip, but the jMicron ide controller. it's giving us fits on the linux side
of things.
 
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