Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 200GB 6V200E0

Jamdav

Jamdav

Jamdav

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I have recently purchased the following HDD from OCUK:
Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 NCQ 200GB 6V200E0
I was hoping to use it with the mother board I currently have which is:
Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4 SLi
I have the drive connected to the motherboard and in the BIOS I can view information about the drive - such as the capacity (203GB) and other info.

Despite the recognition by the BIOS I have a problem with the drive - when I place my Win XP Pro SP1 OS CD in my DVD-Drive I get the text:
"Please press enter to boot from CD"
When I do I get a blank screen and the HDD light is permanently on but there is no sound coming from the drive - and nothing happens.

I cannot install Win XP Pro with SP1 on my drive, and I have no floppy drive in my system.

Where have I gone wrong? Is the drive not compatible with my system?

Please help.
James
 
It is in the nForce 4 port.
The drive is a SATA II drive which my brother says is for RAID only purposes - so therefore the drive I have bought won't work with my motherboard.
Is this bull?

Is it worth sending this back to OCUK - and will they accept it back (I havent even had it a week yet), and get a WD drive instead - or even an ATA drive?
 
Tried multiple CD's.
Having spent nearly £800 with OCUK in the past month, surely they would let me send it back, I have spent hours trying to get the thing to work.

I'll try and see what I can do to either get it working or send it back, just one of those things I suppose.
 
I sent the drive back to OCUK, and got the same one back - but it looks like it gained a bit of soldering to the top of the drive, and has lost some of the casing (There is now a chip in the casing, whether this is due to transit or OCUK staff - I don't know).

Anyway, my brother noticed you can change the drive speed to 1.5Gbps using the jumpers so he did and shoved the drive in and it works. Perfectly. Except its not running at 3Gbps, but at a later date I might change the jumpers around and see what happens.

Windows XP Pro with SP1 is the OS in use, and everything is going swimmingly. Thanks for the advice,
James
 
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