Asus A8N-SLI 36GB WD Raptor Failed to recognize in Bios...

[Appleseeds]

Jeez does anyone else have this problem or me? I dont do RAID or anything just have a simple Western Digital 36GB Raptor as my boot drive and a 120GB Maxtor SATA as my storage drive.

CONSTANTLY get "fail to recognize boot device"- I have to manually turn on/off PC like 3 times for the bios to pickup the WD hard drive and then load XP.....the Maxtor gets recognized all the time.....So frustrating.....I'm thinking i'm going to have to RMA the drive because if the Maxtor gets recognize all the time i'm sure its not the motherboard. Any suggestions? Anyone out there with same issues or is it just me thats going crazy here?

Here's my setup:

Thermaltake Shark Case
Thermaltake X 480W Purepower
Asus A8N-SLI
XFX 6600 GT PCI-E
36GB Western Digital Raptor - Master Boot Drive
120GB Maxtor - Slave Drive
GEIL Ultra 1GB PC3200

 

[JMag]

did you try the 6.39 nforce4 chipset drivers?

 

[MeatHead88]

My Maxtor drives disappear too.

BTW, new WinXP drivers won't do any damn good b4 windows even loads...

 

[dworley]

I had no problems getting my new Raptor 76gb drive working with Bios version 3002 and the original chipset drivers.

I just purchased the Raptor last week and connected it to the SATA1 (Black connector) and moved my Samsung 160gb drive to SATA2 .