Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver

mfarley · June 14th, 2005

Well I can't for the life of me find a sata/raid driver for the Gigabyte GAK8NF-9 motherboard. I also did a brief google search and turned up nothing. Can anyone help?

**LordOfLA** · June 14th, 2005

I've not looked up the specs for the board but windows x64 comes wil sillicon image SATA drivers by defalt. nvidia's nforce3/nforce4 treat sata drives as IDE until you throw on their sata drivers.

If its not using either of those chipsets you need to find the sata chip on your mobo and search for it on google.

mfarley · June 14th, 2005

They are nforce4 drivers, but I was unable to install XP without loading them from the floppy. I tried during the install of x64 and it said they were not compatible with x64 and that I should download new drivers from the site.

**LordOfLA** · June 14th, 2005

make sure your XP CD has SP1 or SP2 slipstreamed to install without endeing SATA floppies.

a little app called nlite will make a pre-patched install CD for you.

mfarley · June 14th, 2005

I know a bit about nlite (not much) but am not understanding how adding SP2 to my XP Pro cd will do anything when I am trying to install XP x64. I have the sata drivers for my drive that work with XP pro. They just don't work with the 64 bit x64. Could you elaborate?

**Shamus MacNoob** · June 14th, 2005

I think he missread , of course you need the 64bit drivers strange they were not on your CD with the board.

mfarley · June 14th, 2005

I know, I mean I bought the board maybe 2 months ago--so even if it's not cutting edge I'd imagine they'd ship the cd with the latest drivers to support x64 since it's made for a 64 bit processor. I think I'm going to contact gigabyte and see if they can shed some light.

champ2005 · June 14th, 2005

Have you tried the gigabyte website? all the drivers are there, when you download them you just have to look through to find the Windows x64 setup ones (like the oemsetup.ini files n stuff)

http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/..._GA-K8NF-9.htm

If you download the Nforce 4 Drivers for Windows x64 (under Chipset driver) you should find what you're looking for there. I believe the same group of files is on the Nvidia website.

This all assumes of course that you're using NVRAID, but i don't think that board has any other option.

mfarley · June 14th, 2005

I did try the gigabyte site and I did not find the drivers--and I read every single one of those options. Sometimes I wonder if I'm blind to these things. Maybe the wife's doing voodoo on me because she doesn't want me messing up the pc.

Thanks.

champ2005 · June 15th, 2005

I dont know if that means that you found them or not

but if you didnt, you'll find them inside the "unified" driver archive when you extract the files from it.

mfarley · June 15th, 2005

oh yeah, I found them alright (or at least the link). The download response is pathetic so am waiting for a better time to download.

mfarley · August 4th, 2005

Looking all over the place for the x64 SATA drivers for my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-k8NF-9) and by the looks of it: http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard..._GA-K8NF-9.htm

they have some beta drivers for x64 for LAN, Audio, etc., but nothing for SATA. Just double checking with you guys if you possible see something I don't.

MattDODOUBLEGEE · August 4th, 2005

Mfarley, did you ever sort out this problem?

mfarley · August 5th, 2005

Just replied to your post...basically I had gigabyte email me the drivers as they are not on the d/l page for some reason. Haven't tried them, but will this evening. Just contact their support dept.

dfoulds · August 17th, 2005

Originally Posted by mfarley

Just replied to your post...basically I had gigabyte email me the drivers as they are not on the d/l page for some reason. Haven't tried them, but will this evening. Just contact their support dept.

Mfarley, assuming the drivers worked, would it be possible for you to e-mail me the SATA x64 drivers you got from Gigabyte support? Their web site is throwing errors when I try to request support, and I'm desperate. I have the same board as you (Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9) and I'm at wits' end trying to get XP Pro x64 installed on my Maxtor SATA hard drive. I've been at for hours now and I'm about ready to buy a G5. My email: doug /at/ fouldsroberts /dot/ ca. Many, many thanks for any help you might be able to provide. In the meanwhile I'll keep trying to get someone at Gigabyte support to help me.

pipi · August 22nd, 2005

Hi! I emailed gigabyte for sata drivers for GA-K8NF-9 x64 (I have it as well), and they sent me this file. I don't know if they work. Have fun!

kpbrowne · August 28th, 2005

Anyone get this to work yet? The Boot disk .exe seems to have missing ".cat" files?
Appears to be some of the files from within the x64 Chipset driver download?
[How will we get on with "legacy-free" (no floppy) system?]

BIGP · May 30th, 2006

I'm also having problem finding the right sata drivers for my GA-K8NF-9 Board. There are several drivers on the CD but which one is?

slw30 · June 10th, 2006

I have just joined today and I have no experience in online forums but I say hello. My main reason for coming online is I have the GA-K8NF motherboard and I am trying to install Windows 64 but I can't find a sata driver that works. Google led me to this site.

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mfarley OSNN Senior Addict Joined: June 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 268 Reputation: 160 Power: 85	Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver Well I can't for the life of me find a sata/raid driver for the Gigabyte GAK8NF-9 motherboard. I also did a brief google search and turned up nothing. Can anyone help? evga nforce 680i \| Intel e6600 @ 3.2ghz 1.41v w/Zalman CPS9500 \| 2GB Corsair Dominator XMS2 DDR800 (1:1 FSB:RAM) \| XFX 7600GT

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,015 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 209	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver I've not looked up the specs for the board but windows x64 comes wil sillicon image SATA drivers by defalt. nvidia's nforce3/nforce4 treat sata drives as IDE until you throw on their sata drivers. If its not using either of those chipsets you need to find the sata chip on your mobo and search for it on google. If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.

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mfarley OSNN Senior Addict Joined: June 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 268 Reputation: 160 Power: 85	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver They are nforce4 drivers, but I was unable to install XP without loading them from the floppy. I tried during the install of x64 and it said they were not compatible with x64 and that I should download new drivers from the site. evga nforce 680i \| Intel e6600 @ 3.2ghz 1.41v w/Zalman CPS9500 \| 2GB Corsair Dominator XMS2 DDR800 (1:1 FSB:RAM) \| XFX 7600GT

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LordOfLA Godlike! Joined: February 2004 Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK Posts: 7,015 Blog Entries: 5 Reputation: 4137 Power: 209	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver make sure your XP CD has SP1 or SP2 slipstreamed to install without endeing SATA floppies. a little app called nlite will make a pre-patched install CD for you. If HK-47 and GLaDOS had a child, the character they create would cause the video game world to overdose on awesome. -sheridanmovieguy: Dragon age forum user.

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mfarley OSNN Senior Addict Joined: June 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 268 Reputation: 160 Power: 85	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver I know a bit about nlite (not much) but am not understanding how adding SP2 to my XP Pro cd will do anything when I am trying to install XP x64. I have the sata drivers for my drive that work with XP pro. They just don't work with the 64 bit x64. Could you elaborate? evga nforce 680i \| Intel e6600 @ 3.2ghz 1.41v w/Zalman CPS9500 \| 2GB Corsair Dominator XMS2 DDR800 (1:1 FSB:RAM) \| XFX 7600GT

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Shamus MacNoob OSNN Veteran Addict Joined: January 2002 Location: Brossard,Quebec Posts: 4,199 Blog Entries: 1 Reputation: 1481 Power: 178	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver I think he missread , of course you need the 64bit drivers strange they were not on your CD with the board. ASUS PN5-E SLI,Intel E8400,2 x 8800GTX 768mb SLI,ASUS VW266H 26 inch LCD, 8 GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer, Silverstone Strider 850watt PSU.Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit.

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mfarley OSNN Senior Addict Joined: June 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 268 Reputation: 160 Power: 85	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver I know, I mean I bought the board maybe 2 months ago--so even if it's not cutting edge I'd imagine they'd ship the cd with the latest drivers to support x64 since it's made for a 64 bit processor. I think I'm going to contact gigabyte and see if they can shed some light. evga nforce 680i \| Intel e6600 @ 3.2ghz 1.41v w/Zalman CPS9500 \| 2GB Corsair Dominator XMS2 DDR800 (1:1 FSB:RAM) \| XFX 7600GT

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champ2005 \| xs \| Joined: January 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 238 Reputation: 40 Power: 101	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver Have you tried the gigabyte website? all the drivers are there, when you download them you just have to look through to find the Windows x64 setup ones (like the oemsetup.ini files n stuff) http://tw.giga-byte.com/Motherboard/..._GA-K8NF-9.htm If you download the Nforce 4 Drivers for Windows x64 (under Chipset driver) you should find what you're looking for there. I believe the same group of files is on the Nvidia website. This all assumes of course that you're using NVRAID, but i don't think that board has any other option. AMD Athlon 2400+ (2.0ghz) \| 1.5GB DDR266 (2.0/3/3/6) \| 19" AOC LCD \| 80GB Primary Disk \| SATA RAID 0 2x160GB \| Leadtek Geforce4 Ti4800SE \| Gigabyte VIA KT600 board with 1394 \| Microsoft Wireless Elite Keyboard \| Logitech MX900 w/ Bluetooth

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mfarley OSNN Senior Addict Joined: June 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 268 Reputation: 160 Power: 85	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver I did try the gigabyte site and I did not find the drivers--and I read every single one of those options. Sometimes I wonder if I'm blind to these things. Maybe the wife's doing voodoo on me because she doesn't want me messing up the pc. Thanks. evga nforce 680i \| Intel e6600 @ 3.2ghz 1.41v w/Zalman CPS9500 \| 2GB Corsair Dominator XMS2 DDR800 (1:1 FSB:RAM) \| XFX 7600GT

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champ2005 \| xs \| Joined: January 2004 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 238 Reputation: 40 Power: 101	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver I dont know if that means that you found them or not but if you didnt, you'll find them inside the "unified" driver archive when you extract the files from it. AMD Athlon 2400+ (2.0ghz) \| 1.5GB DDR266 (2.0/3/3/6) \| 19" AOC LCD \| 80GB Primary Disk \| SATA RAID 0 2x160GB \| Leadtek Geforce4 Ti4800SE \| Gigabyte VIA KT600 board with 1394 \| Microsoft Wireless Elite Keyboard \| Logitech MX900 w/ Bluetooth

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mfarley OSNN Senior Addict Joined: June 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 268 Reputation: 160 Power: 85	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver oh yeah, I found them alright (or at least the link). The download response is pathetic so am waiting for a better time to download. evga nforce 680i \| Intel e6600 @ 3.2ghz 1.41v w/Zalman CPS9500 \| 2GB Corsair Dominator XMS2 DDR800 (1:1 FSB:RAM) \| XFX 7600GT

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mfarley OSNN Senior Addict Joined: June 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 268 Reputation: 160 Power: 85	SATA Drivers for Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 Looking all over the place for the x64 SATA drivers for my motherboard (Gigabyte GA-k8NF-9) and by the looks of it: http://www.giga-byte.com/Motherboard..._GA-K8NF-9.htm they have some beta drivers for x64 for LAN, Audio, etc., but nothing for SATA. Just double checking with you guys if you possible see something I don't. evga nforce 680i \| Intel e6600 @ 3.2ghz 1.41v w/Zalman CPS9500 \| 2GB Corsair Dominator XMS2 DDR800 (1:1 FSB:RAM) \| XFX 7600GT

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MattDODOUBLEGEE OSNN Junior Addict Joined: August 2005 Posts: 3 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver Mfarley, did you ever sort out this problem?

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mfarley OSNN Senior Addict Joined: June 2005 Location: San Francisco Bay Area Posts: 268 Reputation: 160 Power: 85	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver Just replied to your post...basically I had gigabyte email me the drivers as they are not on the d/l page for some reason. Haven't tried them, but will this evening. Just contact their support dept. evga nforce 680i \| Intel e6600 @ 3.2ghz 1.41v w/Zalman CPS9500 \| 2GB Corsair Dominator XMS2 DDR800 (1:1 FSB:RAM) \| XFX 7600GT

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dfoulds OSNN One Post Wonder Joined: August 2005 Posts: 1 Reputation: 0 Power: 0	Re: Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 x64 sata driver Originally Posted by mfarley Just replied to your post...basically I had gigabyte email me the drivers as they are not on the d/l page for some reason. Haven't tried them, but will this evening. Just contact their support dept. Mfarley, assuming the drivers worked, would it be possible for you to e-mail me the SATA x64 drivers you got from Gigabyte support? Their web site is throwing errors when I try to request support, and I'm desperate. I have the same board as you (Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9) and I'm at wits' end trying to get XP Pro x64 installed on my Maxtor SATA hard drive. I've been at for hours now and I'm about ready to buy a G5. My email: doug /at/ fouldsroberts /dot/ ca. Many, many thanks for any help you might be able to provide. In the meanwhile I'll keep trying to get someone at Gigabyte support to help me.

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