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Thread ID: 56511	2005-04-07 06:19:00	SATA Drive Help Needed	Sleepy (7202)	Press F1

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342449	2005-04-07 06:19:00	Hello, I'm trying to fix my friends computer, which has the following specs: Pentium 4 2.8GHz, 120 Seagate Barracuda 7200 SATA (ST3120026AS), 1GB RAM, P4P800-E Deluxe motherboard, DVDROM/CD Writer Combo, Windows XP Professional SP2. There was no display on the monitor from the computer. Tried the following: - Checked monitor cable connected - Checked power cable connected - Tried different monitors - Tried different graphics cards - Reset the CMOS - Cleaned the contacts on the RAM with an anti static bag The last solution, cleaning the contacts on the RAM brought the display back on the monitor. But now the SATA drive is not detected in the BIOS. I have downloaded Seagate Disc Wizard Starter Edition (DOS). But am unsure whether to use this utility, as I think it is for new installation of SATA drives (fast formatting). And the data currently on the SATA drive is important, and can't afford to lose. Has anybody got any advice on how to detect the SATA Drive, and get it to boot from it. Any help would be much appreciated. In the BIOS it has the following settings on IDE1: DVDROM/CD Writer Combo has been set to Primary Master. There are 6 IDE channels. Thanks,	Sleepy (7202)
342450	2005-04-07 06:48:00	You could check to see if there is a bios update available for the mobo	Overdrive_5000 (4950)
342451	2005-04-07 07:04:00	The SATA if onboard should be the 3rd & 4th ide master in the BIOS . (SATA doesn't have slave, or jumpers) . If there's an operating system on the SATA now . NOT primary master or secondary master/slave . You shouldn't need that Seagate Wizard program . On the ASUS mobos with SATA in the BIOS, Theres: Primary Master / Slave Secndary Master / Slave And Third IDE Master Fourth IDE Master (These are for the SATA connections) . Put either one of these on AUTO in the BIOS . If Windows has already been installed on the SATA . BUT if there is NO OS on the SATA, at the mo, select the above . If u have one SATA, you should be able to install whatever OS u have to the SATA from the CD . If u have 2 SATA hdd's, you MAY need the drivers, which are on the motherboard cd . These have to be extracted to a floppy, from within Windows, before u can install them for SATA RAID . And before u install 2000/XP .	Speedy Gonzales (78)
342452	2005-04-07 07:43:00	The SATA if onboard should be the 3rd & 4th ide master in the BIOS . (SATA doesn't have slave, or jumpers) . If there's an operating system on the SATA now . NOT primary master or secondary master/slave . You shouldn't need that Seagate Wizard program . On the ASUS mobos with SATA in the BIOS, Theres: Primary Master / Slave Secndary Master / Slave And Third IDE Master Fourth IDE Master (These are for the SATA connections) . Put either one of these on AUTO in the BIOS . If Windows has already been installed on the SATA . BUT if there is NO OS on the SATA, at the mo, select the above . If u have one SATA, you should be able to install whatever OS u have to the SATA from the CD . If u have 2 SATA hdd's, you MAY need the drivers, which are on the motherboard cd . These have to be extracted to a floppy, from within Windows, before u can install them for SATA RAID . And before u install 2000/XP . The SATA Drive currently has Windows XP Professional installed on it . So i assume it would show up in IDE3? all the IDE channels have been set to AUTO . Update on the computer ================== Reset the BIOS to default settings, and it booted up . Booted into safe mode, to check everything was alright . Checked device manager and there was conflicts with the RAID controller and USB controller . Booted back up normally to Windows . But now the network connections, and IDE controllers aren't working . So now, we pulled out the graphics card, and put another one in . And now that seems to work, the first card was a Radeon 9800 XT 256MB . Replaced that with a Radeon 7500, and now it seems to work . Does this seem like a video card failure?	Sleepy (7202)
342453	2005-04-07 09:15:00	Sounds more like an IRQ clash I would say the same thing about the USB and RAID controllers as well. Did you check in Device Manager and click on View>Resources by type, then click on Interrupt Request What do you see... each device will have a number beside it	Myth (110)
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