SeaGate SATA Not reconized in Bios

BadMotorFinger · TweakNOOB Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

Hello.........I've just built a new rig with a SATA Seagate 120 gig HD,but when i try to install Windows it's not showing up in my bios,and even when i try to install the SATA drivers from my MOBO's disk/floppy it still wont show up.....i've even tried Seagates disk Wizard Diskette to try to get it to show up,but it still shows up as no Hard drive connected even on the screen where it wants you to choose what HD you want as a master in Disk Wizard.......i was just wodering if anyone has had this problem and also could there be a chance that it's a Bad drive or that i've hooked it up wrong on the hardware side of things,because i'm using a SATA Y adapter and my GPU is hooked to the 3 pin,so the drives power connector is not going strait to the power supply......could that be the problem?

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Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3800+(Venice)
GPU: Sapphire Radeon x850 XT
Chasis: ThermalTake Damier V
HardDrive:SeaGate SATA 120G 7200 rpm
Memory: Corsair XLPT 1Gig
OS: Windows XP pro(SP2)
ODrive 1: LITEON DVD rw
O Drive 2:LITEON DVD/CD rom

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BadMotorFinger · TweakNOOB Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 2

when i said 3 pin i meant 4 pin.......SORRY!...lol

[TN] Nathan · ALMIGHTY PWNER! Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 7406

please don't install a large avatar again.

Make sure you drive is not sharing a channel with another drive.

Consult your motherboard manual.
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dene · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 4:05 am Post subject:

Badmotorfinger is a good soundgarden album :), Thats all i can think off, look at ur mobo manuel and have a looksie

, Welcome to TN by the way, hope you stay around
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

You may have to enable SATA in your BIOS.

Steps that you should take to install an SATA drive:

Boot into your BIOS, and make sure your SATA controller is enabled.
Shut down, restart with your Seagate disk installed, and format the drive.
Restart again, and you should see the drive.
If not, and you have an older mobo, you may have to reinstall Windows, and press F6 when it asks for your driver disk. You should be able to do a "repair install", to give you the option.

Also, depending on the age/controller of your mobo, you might NOT be able to boot off of it. First-gen SATA controllers did not allow booting from an SATA drive.
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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 11:39 am Post subject:

he has a NEW motherboard.

You need to make sure you have the drive connected to one of the chipset SATA plugs. And that you have the SATA controller enabled in the BIOS.
My feeling on this one, is that you have it connected to a nV raid sata terminal and you dont have the nV raid enabled in the BIOS and that is why you arent seeing the drive.

So read your manual and check to see which SATA controller you are plugged into.
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[KoG]^weaZel · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 11:05 am Post subject:

^^^
hehe dont ya hate that!?
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