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SATA Drive Problem

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TornadoTed

Member
I have just built my new machine this evening based around this set up:

ASUS A8V Deluxe Motherboard
2 GB RAM
120 Gb Seagate Barracuda IDE System Drive
74 Gb Western Digital Raptor SATA Audio Drive

It worked first time but the SATA drive has not been recognised. I have installed Windows on the system drive no problem at all but the SATA drive just isn't there.

When asked to press Ctrl F to set up SATA drives it is listed there and it's status is Functional. It is not listed in the BIOS though.

When it asks you to press TAB to get into the SATA set up screen it lists all sorts of options but it won't let me select any of them, in fact pressing the keyboard arrows to move between options does nothing.

I've never installed a SATA drive before, in fact this is the first machine I've built from scratch although I've upgraded machines before.

No software came with my Western Digtal Drive.

Could it be that the version of Windows is too early, it's Service Pack 1?

Any suggestions would be REALLY welcome.
 
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daizo

Member
Why don't you just use a SATA HD for the program drive? - but as to your question that's strange that it wouldnt work. XP SP1 easily supports SATA drives. im running my opteron with 4 SATA drives with SP1
 
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Stuart Stuart

Active Member
I just did the very same thing last night. I have three drives - a 250 gb sata, which is the windows disk, a 80gb ide, which i use for bfd, and a 74 gb raptor, for audio. Anyway, the windows setup formatted the two other drives, but had nothing to say about the raptor.

After installing windows, I went to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management, then found the missing raptor. I formatted there, and all is good. Make sure control panel is switched to classic view, or else you might not find the admin tools option.
 
jcat

jcat

Active Member
Hi,


First of all, you should upgrade to Service Pack 2, there's lots of fixes and benefits. Second, the version of Windows you have installed won't effect whether or not you can see the drive in the BIOS. the BIOS is something that loads prior to Windows, so at that stage Windows isn't even running.

However, Windows does communicate with the BIOS once Windows is running, and it can over-ride the BIOS settings. So even if the BIOS can't or won't add the hard drive, it may still be possible to make it available in Windows using the Disk Management tool from the Computer Management snap-in as Stuart suggested.

However, in an ideal world the BIOS should load the drive as well. It can cause complications at a later date otherwise.

Have you posted on the ASUS motherboard forum?





Cheers,

jcat
 
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TornadoTed

Member
I haven't posted on the ASUS forum, didn't evben think about it! I have tried the Disk Management tool but it doesn't show up in there. I'll try service pack 2, I still have version 1.0013 of the BIOS and it wouldn't let me flash the new 1.0018 version. Could my old BIOS have something to do with it?
 
jcat

jcat

Active Member
TornadoTed said:
I haven't posted on the ASUS forum, didn't evben think about it! I have tried the Disk Management tool but it doesn't show up in there. I'll try service pack 2, I still have version 1.0013 of the BIOS and it wouldn't let me flash the new 1.0018 version. Could my old BIOS have something to do with it?
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Most Definately!

At the end of the day, this is a mother board issue. So you'll get the best help from the ASUS forum. Someone there will probably just go, "oh yeah, you just need to to dp this and this...".

Good luck! :)



Cheers,

jcat
 
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Captain Caveman

Member
You need to install the VIA drivers off your CD.

The SATA drives run from the VIA Raid (even though you're not setting up a RAID array) driver, not the Promise RAID in the BIOS.

I had the same problem.

Disabling Promise RAID in the BIOS speeds up booting up too.

8)
 
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TornadoTed

Member
Cheers Captain Caveman, you are a total legend. That sorted it and Windows is now showing the disk. I'll report back once I've got my souncard, UAD's and software installed and given it a damn good thrashing. Cheers to everyone else who replied too.
 
jcat

jcat

Active Member
General Rule

When building a new computer, and installing Windows from scratch, you must install the chipset drivers for that particular motherboard. Otherwise you're computer will be slow and unstable! Also, some features wil be unavailable.

Happy music making! :)




Cheers,

jcat
 
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