- Jun 24, 2002
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Turned to you guys for help.
Been to the official websites and all - been to a few forums and still can't find the solution. Hopefully I'll find it here.
Just bought 20/3/06
Specs of new com:
P4 Celeron 2.13Ghz
MSI PM8M-V
PC3200 256Mb RAM
On board VGA/LAN/Sound.
Supports SATA I (Up to 2 drives)
CD-RW.
Ran with a regular 80GB IDE drive and it works.
CAN'T DETECT SATA HARD DISK THRU WINDOW'S INSTALLATION PROCESS
Since there was onboard SATA, I wanted to install a RAID-1 system just in case one hard disk died. Power supply SATA connector instead of the 4-pin molex and SATA connection to board.
Instructions from official website:
Download Raid Drivers -> Put into Diskette 1.44 (Which I did - VIA latest drivers from MSN website. (There's 2 folders: PIDE and RAID and TXTSETUP.OEM in A
I ran the WinXP SP-2 CD, and hit F6 when necessary. Loaded the XP drivers. Did this like 50 times... and no matter wat, they can't detect the hard drive. Both hard drive went undetected. Power supply checked - all working as per normal.
Did read on a few sites that it could be due to:
The version of Windows (latest updates)
The version of the bios (Which I'm assuming the latest since i just bot it)
Connector loose (of coz)
SATA in bios not detected (Here's the thing, this BIOS DOES not have the option to switch it on or off - so I'm assuming it's on) The jumpers on the motherboard also does not have the option. (Just the regular CMOS reset - which i've tried too)
Solutions tried:
Changing SATA power and cable power supplies.
Connections checked; even went to use IDE hard drives to test power supply
CMOS reset.
Going to borrow a earlier version of Windows tomorrow and try again. *Last alternative*
Kinda desparate after wasting these hours... if anyone has any advice, I'll be more than happy to try.
TIA.
--B
Been to the official websites and all - been to a few forums and still can't find the solution. Hopefully I'll find it here.
Just bought 20/3/06
Specs of new com:
P4 Celeron 2.13Ghz
MSI PM8M-V
PC3200 256Mb RAM
On board VGA/LAN/Sound.
Supports SATA I (Up to 2 drives)
CD-RW.
Ran with a regular 80GB IDE drive and it works.
CAN'T DETECT SATA HARD DISK THRU WINDOW'S INSTALLATION PROCESS
Since there was onboard SATA, I wanted to install a RAID-1 system just in case one hard disk died. Power supply SATA connector instead of the 4-pin molex and SATA connection to board.
Instructions from official website:
Download Raid Drivers -> Put into Diskette 1.44 (Which I did - VIA latest drivers from MSN website. (There's 2 folders: PIDE and RAID and TXTSETUP.OEM in A
I ran the WinXP SP-2 CD, and hit F6 when necessary. Loaded the XP drivers. Did this like 50 times... and no matter wat, they can't detect the hard drive. Both hard drive went undetected. Power supply checked - all working as per normal.
Did read on a few sites that it could be due to:
The version of Windows (latest updates)
The version of the bios (Which I'm assuming the latest since i just bot it)
Connector loose (of coz)
SATA in bios not detected (Here's the thing, this BIOS DOES not have the option to switch it on or off - so I'm assuming it's on) The jumpers on the motherboard also does not have the option. (Just the regular CMOS reset - which i've tried too)
Solutions tried:
Changing SATA power and cable power supplies.
Connections checked; even went to use IDE hard drives to test power supply
CMOS reset.
Going to borrow a earlier version of Windows tomorrow and try again. *Last alternative*
Kinda desparate after wasting these hours... if anyone has any advice, I'll be more than happy to try.
TIA.
--B