- Feb 7, 2005
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would very much appreciate if someone could help me work through this problem I am having with my new system build.
I have a Chaintech VNF4 Ultra motherboard
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=318
with a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300 gig SATA hard drive
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxto...0Hard%20Drives/Desktop/DiamondMax%2010
and have failed to detect the hard drive and can thus cannot install windows upon it.
I have tried the drivers that came with the motherboard as well as the updated versions from nvidia on a floppy and hitting F6 to install them in the windows XP install process to no avail.
I have tried every possible bios setting and every possible SATA port/cable. The bios does not detect the drive on the "detecting raid array" screen when I enable the applicable sata ports. The drive HAS power and is spinning (can feel vibration when held in my hand).
Nothing I have done is working and I cannot find any help via google searches.
Chaintech's customer support has failed to email me back after 4 days.
If someone who has experience, preferably with this board and SATA drives, please walk me through how one would "normally" get a SATA drive to detect on this board, whether you have the same drive or not.
Thank you.
I have a Chaintech VNF4 Ultra motherboard
http://www.chaintechusa.com/tw/eng/product_spec.asp?MPSNo=13&PISNo=318
with a Maxtor Diamondmax 10 300 gig SATA hard drive
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Maxto...0Hard%20Drives/Desktop/DiamondMax%2010
and have failed to detect the hard drive and can thus cannot install windows upon it.
I have tried the drivers that came with the motherboard as well as the updated versions from nvidia on a floppy and hitting F6 to install them in the windows XP install process to no avail.
I have tried every possible bios setting and every possible SATA port/cable. The bios does not detect the drive on the "detecting raid array" screen when I enable the applicable sata ports. The drive HAS power and is spinning (can feel vibration when held in my hand).
Nothing I have done is working and I cannot find any help via google searches.
Chaintech's customer support has failed to email me back after 4 days.
If someone who has experience, preferably with this board and SATA drives, please walk me through how one would "normally" get a SATA drive to detect on this board, whether you have the same drive or not.
Thank you.