Argh! my GA-K8VM800M won't recognise SATA HDD - The SATA Raid driver in device manager showing excla

DJMK4 · 19 Apr 2011 at 11:32

Hi,

I have the above board, which has IDE ports and two SATA ports which can be used in RAID, however recently I have had a major problem where my western digital will not recognise itself in the BIOS or in windows no matter what configuration is used, I have tried the jumper settings on the drive, also different settings in the BIOS.

The drive works fine in another PC of mine, just not in this machine. When I log on to this machines Windows OS, go to device manager, there is an exclamation mark next to the sata raid controller, I have tried re-installing the SATA RAID drivers/Controller however it still displays an exclamation mark next to it.

No matter what I do I cannot seem to get it to recognise this device.

Any idea's?

One thing I did a while ago when my server died, was removed the BIOS battery. Could this have cleared it? will I need to upgrade and flash the BIOS with a later version?

Hagar · 19 Apr 2011 at 14:59

What drive and capacity?

I had a similar problem with a sata II drive in an Abit via 800 chipset (AV8) motherboard. This may be the same issue. A cheap sata card was one resolution, but eventually I upgraded the system.

cheers, andy.

OLDPHART · 19 Apr 2011 at 15:10

Hi, try going to Device Manager > look for the sata with the exclamation mark > click on it > update drivers.

DJMK4 · 19 Apr 2011 at 15:25

nkata said:
What drive and capacity?

I had a similar problem with a sata II drive in an Abit via 800 chipset (AV8) motherboard. This may be the same issue. A cheap sata card was one resolution, but eventually I upgraded the system.

cheers, andy.

Western Digital Caviar 500GB, dont know if I mentioned in my first post, but it was working perfectly fine up until my PSU blew up, I managed to source another PSU which I installed, looks like it is happening since then, the PSU has slightly less output available, do you think it could be that it doesnt have enough to power the second hard drive sufficiently?

As I took out the BIOS battery at some point aswel, I am going to try and reset the BIOS and possibly flash it to the latest version, then insure it is set-up properly, for it to not see it in the BIOS is slightly suspicious.

Old Phart - I have already tried re-installing the drivers, doesnt make a world of difference