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| Thread ID: 64430 | 2005-12-14 22:16:00 | SATA Hard drive Continued | Xika (8344) | Press F1 |
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| 412727 | 2005-12-14 22:16:00 | Continuing this topic, (pressf1.co.nz) The SATA HD is plugged in correctly, and emits a quiet buzz, hopefully a sign it is functional. It could possibly be my PSU, a weak 300W. My mobo reports my +12V is 11.5V, could this affect the detection of the hard drive? All of my other hard drives and CD drives work on all of the molex connectors I have plugged the SATA power converter into. On boot, my mobo detects IDE Channels 0 & 1, the P-ATA chanels, but hangs when it gets to detecting Channels 2 & 3, SATA channels 1 & 2 respectively. I don't think the drive is corrupt, I've handled it while wearing an anti-static wrist strap, and my mobo has no straightforward SATA disabling function, so I'm a tad stuck as what to do. |
Xika (8344) | ||
| 412728 | 2005-12-14 22:19:00 | Take out all drives and any PCI cards and see if SATA boots. | Nomad (952) | ||
| 412729 | 2005-12-14 22:24:00 | Did you reset the bios? | Metla (12) | ||
| 412730 | 2005-12-14 22:24:00 | its basically the same thing without the CD drive being detected (as expected). And I have no PCI cards, only a video card. | Xika (8344) | ||
| 412731 | 2005-12-14 22:26:00 | If by resetting the BIOS you mean selecting "Fail Safe Defaults" or "Optimised Defaults" | Xika (8344) | ||
| 412732 | 2005-12-14 22:34:00 | Is the Sata drive recognised in bios? | JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 412733 | 2005-12-14 22:39:00 | No And I have updated the BIOS to the latest version. |
Xika (8344) | ||
| 412734 | 2005-12-14 22:46:00 | And did you go back into the BIOS, and set it to the defaults, after u flashed the BIOS, and reconfigure the settings in the BIOS? Including the IDE / SATA entries? If u haven't, this is why the SATA can't be detected. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 412735 | 2005-12-14 23:11:00 | Suggest you dis-connect your Pata drive. Hook up the Sata and try to re boot. After the boot sequence you should get a message saying "can't find O/S." or simliar. If you get this there is nothing wrong with Sata. If you don't get this far then go into your bios settings and look for "enable SATA". Make sure this is selected. I assume your O/S is on the Pata drive. |
JJJJJ (528) | ||
| 412736 | 2005-12-15 00:47:00 | Is it a SATA2 drive? If so it might need a jumper set on it - I saw a WD one that needed that done to be recognised by the older controller... |
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