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Help needed with SATA drive please !!!
Hello, I really need your help to get this running. I have a ASUS A7N8X-E
Deluxe motherboard and would like to remove the old IDE 80 Gb drive. Instead, I'd like to install the Hitachi 160 Gb SATA drive I just bought. So far, so good. I removed the old hd and put the new one in. After connecting the cabels and power, I tried to boot the PC. The system said the was no valid Disk found - please check cable. (As far as I could tell, there's only one possible way to attach the SATA cable). So after a while, I put back the IDE drive, leaving the SATA one in place. Now, the SATA drive is ignored by the system, as if it weren' there. *sigh* I'm sick of spending my time without getting things to run. Any help is gladly accepted. Any information needed on your behalf is supplied upon request. Please have a heart. Btw: Is there any danger of using single SATA? Or is it much better than IDE?!? hmmm, *oh, dear*....... thanx - andy |
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http://usa.asus.com/products/mb/sock.../overview.htm#
Did you enable the sata controllers?(page 2-17 of the manual) "Andy Rose" wrote in message ... Hello, I really need your help to get this running. I have a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard and would like to remove the old IDE 80 Gb drive. Instead, I'd like to install the Hitachi 160 Gb SATA drive I just bought. So far, so good. I removed the old hd and put the new one in. After connecting the cabels and power, I tried to boot the PC. The system said the was no valid Disk found - please check cable. (As far as I could tell, there's only one possible way to attach the SATA cable). So after a while, I put back the IDE drive, leaving the SATA one in place. Now, the SATA drive is ignored by the system, as if it weren' there. *sigh* I'm sick of spending my time without getting things to run. Any help is gladly accepted. Any information needed on your behalf is supplied upon request. Please have a heart. Btw: Is there any danger of using single SATA? Or is it much better than IDE?!? hmmm, *oh, dear*....... thanx - andy |
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Thanx Pen, I'm in the office at the moment and can't check it right now.
I'll see in to it at home. Hopefully this'll help. best regards, Andy Rose "Andy Rose" schrieb im Newsbeitrag ... Hello, I really need your help to get this running. I have a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard and would like to remove the old IDE 80 Gb drive. Instead, I'd like to install the Hitachi 160 Gb SATA drive I just bought. So far, so good. I removed the old hd and put the new one in. After connecting the cabels and power, I tried to boot the PC. The system said the was no valid Disk found - please check cable. (As far as I could tell, there's only one possible way to attach the SATA cable). So after a while, I put back the IDE drive, leaving the SATA one in place. Now, the SATA drive is ignored by the system, as if it weren' there. *sigh* I'm sick of spending my time without getting things to run. Any help is gladly accepted. Any information needed on your behalf is supplied upon request. Please have a heart. Btw: Is there any danger of using single SATA? Or is it much better than IDE?!? hmmm, *oh, dear*....... thanx - andy |
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help.
Thank you very much for your responses so far. Sadly, it still isn't working. I've checked the jumper settings. SATA support is on by default. The drive is mouted in the bay and connected to power as well as to the onboard SATA connector. I've also checked the PNP settings, there is no Y or N setting. It's set to auto at the moment. I also have booted of the XP cd and tried to install. I don't know where to supply the drivers from. There is a SATA driver download on the net, but it's over 4 mb, so I don't think that's what I need. I also flashed the bios to 1.008 version, the newest offered on asuscom.de. Reading the manual, (which I did already once), didn't help me much. (???) So here's the situation : - Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe MoBo Bios ver. 1.008 - Hitachi SATA HD 164 gb, bulk 'as it came' non formated - LiteOnDVD Burner on Sec. Slave IDE - Floppydisk - No OS installes - No other HD installed Please, how to get do I create a drivers disk - where to get the files. How do I install the single HD? I'm quite desperate about this, as I've spent over 4 nights on this matter and really need some sleep. (aaaargrgrhhhhh..... ) best regards, Andy r. |
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Have you tried , enabling "Boot Other Device" (page 4-16)
and also you can try, if that doesn't work, enabling SCSI as a Boot Device. SCSI devices are always on another controller as is the SATA. Also read 5-2 about SATA drivers. "Andy Rose" wrote in message ... help. Thank you very much for your responses so far. Sadly, it still isn't working. I've checked the jumper settings. SATA support is on by default. The drive is mouted in the bay and connected to power as well as to the onboard SATA connector. I've also checked the PNP settings, there is no Y or N setting. It's set to auto at the moment. I also have booted of the XP cd and tried to install. I don't know where to supply the drivers from. There is a SATA driver download on the net, but it's over 4 mb, so I don't think that's what I need. I also flashed the bios to 1.008 version, the newest offered on asuscom.de. Reading the manual, (which I did already once), didn't help me much. (???) So here's the situation : - Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe MoBo Bios ver. 1.008 - Hitachi SATA HD 164 gb, bulk 'as it came' non formated - LiteOnDVD Burner on Sec. Slave IDE - Floppydisk - No OS installes - No other HD installed Please, how to get do I create a drivers disk - where to get the files. How do I install the single HD? I'm quite desperate about this, as I've spent over 4 nights on this matter and really need some sleep. (aaaargrgrhhhhh..... ) best regards, Andy r. |
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On Tue, 4 May 2004 19:29:25 +0200, "Andy Rose"
wrote: help. Thank you very much for your responses so far. Sadly, it still isn't working. I've checked the jumper settings. SATA support is on by default. The drive is mouted in the bay and connected to power as well as to the onboard SATA connector. I've also checked the PNP settings, there is no Y or N setting. It's set to auto at the moment. I also have booted of the XP cd and tried to install. I don't know where to supply the drivers from. There is a SATA driver download on the net, but it's over 4 mb, so I don't think that's what I need. That's exactly what you need. The driver files take only about 200KB of space. The SATA driver should also be on the CD that came with the motherboard. I also flashed the bios to 1.008 version, the newest offered on asuscom.de. Reading the manual, (which I did already once), didn't help me much. (???) So here's the situation : - Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe MoBo Bios ver. 1.008 - Hitachi SATA HD 164 gb, bulk 'as it came' non formated - LiteOnDVD Burner on Sec. Slave IDE - Floppydisk - No OS installes - No other HD installed Please, how to get do I create a drivers disk - where to get the files. How do I install the single HD? I'm quite desperate about this, as I've spent over 4 nights on this matter and really need some sleep. (aaaargrgrhhhhh..... ) best regards, Andy r. |
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Ok - all up and running. Here's the solution:
- SATA setup was not available during bootup. After removing internal Wifi Card, setup was accessible via F4. Thanx to John for pointing out the possibility of a hardware conflict - that was the initial key. - Found a forum on the web where they tell you, how to create a driver disk for the WinXP installation. (I think I threw mine in the trash, as many others did b4 they bought a sata drive......). - Popped in the CD, slammed F6, waited for the boot to finish and supplied the disk when promoted. Presto! 164gb up and running. ......(Fast, too.) Thanx to all of you, for all the help supplied. Wouldn't have made it without you. |
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