Installing a WD Caviar Black SATA3 (6Gbps)

Hi all

I am really a newbie and after some help and guidance. Specifically to help set up my new sata 3 WD caviar black 1tb HD (WD1002FAEX). I am pretty confident I haven't done it correctly and to further add to my suspicions, the machine randomly locks up on window 7 startup screen.
For starters, is there any specific BIOS setting I need to be aware of? I have the HD physically connected to a sata3 port and it is working, windows 7 (64bit) is installed. However;
1. after installing WD Data LifeGuard Diagnostics, I am getting a "FAIL" on the SMART status which makes me think something is wrong (see attached pic). I ran a full diagnostics and the HD passed.
2. the disk controller as per hard drive sentinel is "Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller (ATA)" (see attached pic) - does this sound correct? This is different to my old sata hard driver which uses Intel 5 Series/3400 Series SATA Controller.
3. What is a "ATA Checksum Value", hard drive sentinel is reporting the result as Invalid? (see attached pic)
I don't believe it is set up correctly thus giving me mixed bag results? Can someone please help or point me in the direction of a guide to install sata3 drives so I can review and compare to my set up?

Thanks alot.

 

Some more info from HD Sentinel, what does this mean? (see attached pic)

 

What is the make and model of your machine?
It may not be set to handle SATA3.

 

it is an i5 cpu on a gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3R mobo,it supports sata3

 

Any help/advise please?

 

On the following Gigabyte page, I noticed the caveat about installing the Marvell Console Driver before installing the Marvell RAID Utility - don't know if it applies to your situation, but it's worth looking at (there are also other drivers/manuals there - might come in handy).

 

Thanks mate, I have had a look on the website and updated the PC with all the latest mobo drivers. As I only have 1 HD, RAID is not applicable?

 

wipz, I am excactly on the same situation here. Same mobo, same hard disk...

Did you find the solution to the problem?

 

Never did figure it out wdman, ended up running it on the sata2 port. Sorry buddy If you end up finding a solution please share.
Thanks

 

lol

Actually I did the same thing. I tried on sata 3 but, the system was unreliable. It is slower running on sata2, but i think that it is safer. The hd sentinel went insane when i was running on sata 3. Switch to sata2 and... problem solved