I just bought an asus A8N32-SLI deluxe mobo and a brand new maxtor 200gb sata drive I plugged it in and power it up at first it came out on the bios now it doesn't show it at all,right now its spinning and its powered on but nothing,can someone tell me what i'm doing wrong
Have you changed the switch to enable at the back to enable it as slave or master as I had the same problem with 2 DVD rewriters, turned out I had them both set on Master.
thanks for the reply but sata drives don't come with switches,I just need my mobo to recognize the drive,i'm going to go crazy pretty soon
My MSI board came with a floppy that had to be loaded before SATA drives would work. A MSI user site spelled it all out, possibly a site for ASUS users would have the info you need.
Thats a point I havn't used SATA as of yet but my computer came with a CD for my motherboard to install drivers etc etc.
On my Asus P4C800-E Deluxe motherboard, if I want to use SATA, in my BIOS, I have to switch Enhanced Mode Support to On, to use the SATA drives. I don't know if the newer Asus motherboards have to be changed manually in the BIOS.
GrandpaBW, is that a smaller sig photo? No offense but it's about time, I read thru AD at school, and I get people giving me strange looks and "what, you're looking at picture of little kids, uggghhh!". Don't mind though, free speech and all that! I agree with you though, there are options in the BIOS that have to be enabled before S-ATA drives are recognised.
It's been a while since I did, but even though SATA is a faster connection, nicer cord, and no master/slave problems, doesnt it still have to have a format and partition? I know it will be recognized in the BIOS even if it is not, just tossing something out there that hasnt been mentioned.
If the motherboard first recognized the sata drive and now it does not it could be the sata data connector. Most new motherboards come with two of them. Try the other one and make sure it is well seated on both ends.
@paul1085---There wouldnt be a point in buying it. Even though a HD is plugged in and recognized in BIOS doesnt mean windows can use it yet. It needs set up in windows or else it wont be seen. Maybe it was already done, we dont know, it wasnt mentioned, just throwing out information that hasnt been mentioned yet.
first off SATA you don't have to configure the jumpers for master or slave drive.Go to your bios and disable IDE and enable SATA.run your mobo disc on second computer to get SATA drivers on a floppy if you don't already have one.Enter drivers with F6 on windows installment.
S-ATA cables can sometimes be a problem. I think Western Digital's solution is a good one, though you obviously already have the cables you need.
thanks for the info everyone,I tried a brand new sata cable and now everything works fine I loaded the drivers and everything is good to go.Thanks
I wondered about that - what was the brand of the old & new cables? People could do with avoiding cables like those, it's not what people immediately think of as a problem.
The old cables were from my asus p4p800-se mobo the new cables were from my asus A8N32-sli deluxe board
