Originally posted by: SparkyJJO
1. Look at these reviews on your hard drive on a nForce4 chipset
Apparently your Maxtor 300GB SATA drive somehow has incompatibility issues with nForce4 chipsets. Your board if I looked it up correctly has the nForce3 Ultra chipset, but it may be some similar issue.
2. This one I think might be more helpful. That Maxtor drive is a SATA2 3Gb/s drive, your mobo does not support that. You need to jumper the drive to slow it down to SATA 1.5Gb/s. It should say on the drive which pins to put the jumper on. Strange things can happen when a mobo doesn't read a drive properly.
Hope that helps
SATA drives don't have jumpers...and it doesn't matter if its a sata2 on regular sata connector