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| Newb Techie Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 19
| I've put this computer together and every thing's working fine but I had to buy a new hard drive. I installed the hard drive and its a Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250 Gb's. It's SATA so I found a 4-Molex to SATA converter so it gets power, and It's connected to SATA 1 connection on the motherboard. It's an asus a7nbx motherboard with a 2.6 Ghz amd chip and a radeon 9700 pro 128 mb. Now the computer boots but it will not recognize the new hard drive. The hard drive's got power though and its running fine. Even when i try to install windows, windows says it cannot detect a hard drive. What's wrong? as i was typing this, i thought i might have to clear cmos data. Is that it? |
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| Ultra Techie Join Date: Feb 2007
Posts: 951
| go to south bridge configurations to enable sata. I recently got a new sata harddrive for my old system with a A7V880 motherboard, which is kinda similar to yours. Are you overclocking? If my motherboard goes over 2.0ghz then my sata ports don't function. so i can only overclock 1.8ghz to 2.0ghz |
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 19
| I know where the south bridge is but, I don't know where or how to enable SATA. Is it a jumper? Non of them are labeled and I don't have the Layout diagram of the board because I got from someone else. |
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| krazy Techie | Quote:
try borrowing someones sata hdd and see if it works. you hdd might be a doa. | |
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| Official DFI Bricker Join Date: Jul 2007
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| Check in the bios. On a lot of the new motherboards you have to actually tell it how to treat SATA. There should be an option somewhere in the bios to make it treat the sata as either raid or ide. You want it to be set to IDE mode.
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| Newb Techie Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 19
| Ok, Well I know the hard drive is working because i can hear it and feel it. I checked BIOS and there is no option for IDE or SATA hard drives, It's a fairly new motherboard and it should do this on it's own. |
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