Help with Samsung 1tb HD

nobbyy87

nobbyy87

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Help - I have just bought a pair of Samsung F1 1tb drives for backup purposes.

When I have put them in the machine - the machine does not recognise them in the bios.

I have tried them in another machine - with the same issue.

I have even tried them in a HD caddie and via a SATA raid card but still cant get any system to recognise them.

Any ideas - please!!!!
 
What board are you connecting them to?

Are they spinning up OK when you power on the machine? You should be able to feel them spinning.
 
Yes - I even tried x2 different poer connectors and x2 different SATA cables.

I am totally perplexed!

I thought SATA was supposed to make life simpler!?!
 
In November of last year Gigabyte issued the F8 BIOS for my motherboard which fixed problems that people were having with 1TB drives.

Even though you have tried two different machines you have not posted what motherboard they have in them and, more importantly, have you tried to find out if your boards support a 1TB drive or is there a BIOS update available..?
 
nobbyy87 said:
Abit AV8 and a Asus A8v
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Neither of those boards support SATA300 and chances are they won't support automatic speed negotiation either. Therefore you're going to need to force the drives to run at SATA150, I'm not 100% sure how you do that on an F1 - check the label and see if it has any suggestions.
 
Be aware that even if you are able to access the drive, via another machine, to set the interface to the SATA 150 spec it does not mean that your motherboards BIOS will still be able to recognise the drive.
 
Hi everyone - thank you very much for your responses!

Rpstewart - the link you sent mentions changing the jumpers of the patch is not available - dont suppose you know which way they should be set do you?

Unfortunately I don't have access's to a SATA300 enabled machine = doh!
 
Have managed to run the utility using my HTPC - but would you believe it -still wont boot in my main machine - any other ideas please?
 
Short of buying a SATA300 capable motherboard and replacing your current one, there's always members market to sell the drives. Sorry chap.
 
nobbyy87 said:
Have managed to run the utility using my HTPC - but would you believe it -still wont boot in my main machine - any other ideas please?
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Can you give me some more information, is the machine recognising the drive in the BIOS? Is it booting and reporting an error? Is the machine booting but the drive is not showing in My Computer?
 
AAArgh - it gets worse - my machine wont boot now!!

I can see the headlines 'My Samsung killed my PC!'

I thing that either the CPU or the mobo have failed, I tried plugging in the speaker to see if there are any beep codes - but nothing.

It does fire up with the power button but the monitor doesn't turn on.

Maybe its natures way of driving me to buy a new mobo and CPU?

Seriously though I will take any ideas on fault finding - thanks for all of your help so far.
 
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