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  1. bojan087

    bojan087 Regular member

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    how can i upgrade my bios so that i can install a sata harddrive in there? i looked for a place to make the mother board notice it but there was none. i was an asrock p4v88 mother board. thanx for anyhelp
     
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    Lol well does your motherboard have sata ports?

    If it does then no bios upgrade needed.

    If it doesnt. Well it doesnt what are you gonna plug the hardrive into??

    Lecsiy
     
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    no it has all the nessasary ports for the cables to plug in and all, but when ever i try to install windows xp, and when i get to the part where it sais press ENTER to install windows xp, it tells me to press f3 to restart my compute because it couldnt detect a h/d
     
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    have you been able to confirm that this is a working harddrive?
    if you go in to POST during boot up (usually accomplished by pressing TAB at the BIOS splash screen), and the hard drive doesn't show up, then your computer isn't reading the drive and a BIOS update isn't going to fix this.
     
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    A motherboard will automatically recognise a sata harddrive relentless of the bios. Maybe its a faulty harddrive?

    Lecsiy
     
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    Maybe XP setup doesnt recognize the SATA controller/hdd. I have seen this happen before. Check the mobo website, as you may need, what XP setup calls, 'third party drivers' before XP setup will see the controller/hdd.

    ~Rich
     
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    Lecisy it isn't.

    YOu need to load the drivers for SATA
     
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    so what am i suppose to do right now? go to the website and do what? because i tried contacting them and i never got a responce back
     
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    look in the manual for the instructions to set the board up for sata,
    earlier boards did not auto detect sata drives
     
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    i did follow the instructions, they have the manual online, but when i inserted a empty floppy disk, and the floppy drive wrote something on it told me that i should be able to install win xp without any problems but yet it still gave me the same errors for the f3 thing
     
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    i've loaded sata on a win98se with no problem as have on xp pro. what version of xp are you using? did you load the sata driver onto the floppy then when xp said press f6 for 3rd party drivers which the sata is did you insert the floppy?
     
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    im using windows xp pro. and yes i also inserted the floppy and pushed f6 for the 3rd party, than it did an extra step, and it still lead me to the f3 error
     
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