new s-ata hdd need help

EyesOnly

Hi
i just got a new s-ata Diamondmax 9 120gb mobo is an A7N8X Deluxe and i cant get it to detect it in bios or os.

ive enabled jumper on board but i dont see any sata options in bios + when i go to install new OS i press F6 and it says <none> so i take it it hasnt detected at all

Ronan|Raven

You need to put your sata drivers for your hdd onto a floppy and then press f6 for the whole "3rd party scsi/raid etc" and point it to the location fo your drivers afaik. Never have had to do this so it probably wont work

EyesOnly

yeah ive done that it still comes up as no drive found

EyesOnly

hmm it seems that it could be my board (a7n8x-deluxe rev. 1.xx )
alot of ppl having trouble with it

Spacedog

bios.driver update, see mobo webpage

MadKevo

Originally posted by TheRealEyesOnly
Hi
ive enabled jumper on board but i dont see any sata options in bios l

SATA doesn't appear in the regular BIOS; if you've enabled the jumper correctly a separate "S-ATA BIOS-screen" should appear on boot-up after the regular BIOS stuff (Memory check, IDE disks etc)- in fact I've only just disabled this on my Rev 1.04 A7N8X mainly 'cos it was slowing boot time down too much...

Hope this helps.
MK.

EyesOnly

sent an email to asus see if they can shed some light on it ,im gettin p*****off with it atm :mad:

Nitrox

IS the Asus using the Silicon S ATA chip also?
I have two of teh above hard drives in a RAID 0 on my Nf7-S Abit mobo, and it works like a charm
You do not see the SATA drives in your regular BIOS, instead it has a seperate bios where you go in to configure your drive.
If this 2. BIOS does not show up maybe you have disabled it, so just load back the default settings in BIOS and it should be there again.
SATA really is a lot easier than regular IDE drives, i would say at least as easy as USB connected devices :cool:

EyesOnly

its offical the drives DEAD
i took it to my local comp shop and it doesnt work on there pc either

P.S Tnx for all the help guys much appreciated